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Showing posts with label Filipino. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Filipino. Show all posts

Sunday, June 4, 2017

Late Bloomer

Happy summer, readers! There's been so much going on in the weeks since my last post, so I hope to have you caught up on my recent experiences.

(Good news, yours truly finally has a job! Looks like I'll be resuming my commuting adventures and hopefully finding some interesting things to post about on the way.)

Anyways, I'd like to bring up a recent undertaking I've started. Sometime during Christmas 2015, I spent my vacation with my family in the Philippines. I always love to visit them, but my limited knowledge of Tagalog was a bit of a personal embarrassment. I already have a strong bond with my family back there, but I always felt I needed that bond to be stronger.

During a shopping trip with my family, I stepped into a bookstore. Lo, and behold...

FINALLY.

With generally little hesitation, I bought the book and took it back home to Chicago. I'm 22 years old now. I might be a bit of a late bloomer, but I'm more than willing to put in the work. I've already finished the first chapter, and I'm happy with the progress I've made, little as it is. It'd be great if I found someone else to practice and learn with, though I'm quite not confident as to who to go to.

It's about time I did this. Who knows, I might end up doing an entire post in Tagalog. Tayo na!

Friday, August 5, 2016

It's finally here!

A few days ago, something wonderful happened in Skokie...

...today, I got a taste of that wonder...

You better believe it!

Cutting to the chase for all my non-Filipino viewers, the Filipino version of McDonald's, Jollibee, finally opened up a Chicagoland location! Now I don't have to go all the way to New York or Vegas for Chickenjoy or spaghetti!

Now to wait until they open a Max's in the city as well...