When I was a child living in the Philippines the Christmas season was my favorite time of the year. As you know by now, I was born in the Philippines and my family and I immigrated to America when I was 11 years old. To this day, I still speak Tagalog fluently and I still crave Filipino food regularly. However, at this point in my life, I consider myself as culturally American. In other words, my point-of-view on how things should work has been greatly influenced and shaped by American culture, its thinking, and its traditions. However, there is one thing that the Philippines does the best (in my opinion), and it’s something I truly miss every year around this time ever since my family moved here — the Filipino Christmas season. Frankly, the Filipino Christmas season completely dwarfs the American one in its festivities.