filipiniana

It's linggo ng wika - week of Philippine language, at my daughters' school today. this event is celebrated by doing traditional activities such as wearing filipiniana- our native costume, stage plays, and sing tagalog songs. though i would love to see saskia sing tagalog, she only learned to speak the language just recently. we spoke to her in english all the time since she started speaking.

this year is the first linggo ng wika i got excited to attend. why? because i bought the very first filipiniana costume ever.  i would normally just borrow from relatives to save money because i didn't want to spend for something they would only wear once. they grow up so fast and these costumes are expensive for a one day affair. but last night as i walk around the costume racks, i stood there for two hours deciding whether i should get one for both naomi and saskia. i remembered alyssa has this maria clara outfit which naomi can wear again. then i decided to get one for saskia. i picked a larger size so she could use again next year and for the coming years until it doesn't fit anymore.

here it is,

saskia francesca wearing a baro't saya with agatha

 and guess what, she was nominated for best costume!

naomi wearing a very simple maria clara outfit

here's how it really looks like.

though i'm a little creeped out by showing you

these black and white pictures i got from google images.

i hope i don't get haunted!

  was really into the whole celebration

so i took pictures of random students

and just when i was enjoying the whole picture taking, 

the camera died. shoot..

i had fun anyway... and looking forward to next year's linggo ng wika.

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