Back to the vice president.  There was a gathering in the embassy in honor of his visit. But check this out--I think he's scared of my grandmother (how weird is that) because she is a famous journalist and publisher of  a daily newspaper in the Philippines and she is not afraid to speak her mind and criticize the government whenever it does bad things.

Anyways the vice president--he had so much security it must've taken the whole of the Pretoria Police Station to guard him!  I saw so many Filipinos (such as myself--I am part-Filipino, part-Spanish, part-British, and part-Greek)! I never knew there were so many in Gauteng!  I heard that some people even came from as far as Swaziland, which is at least two hours away.
 
When we got there my sister was completely shy, but I kept on hoping that I would make new friends...and so I did!  I made two very awesome friends called Kumi and Abbie. These people were so lucky that one girl got the vice president's autograph on her iPod!
 
But the food. My goodness there was so much food I couldn't believe it!!! But there was nothing to compare dat baie lekker (that means very yummy) chicharon, which is pork crackling. It was so good and noisy, that when the vice president was making his speech all you could hear was the crunch from me eating!

After that it was a long drive home, because of the traffic and eventually when we got home I thought I'm proud to be Filipino.

And speaking of food--here is a photo of our Christmas holiday table. We love to eat! This photo was taken at my grandmother's house in the Philippines.


 
Over 70 people came to share the holiday!