A FEW DAYS LATER after Thanksgiving, I celebrated my eighteenth birthday. In the Philippines, it's a huge celebration — and I mean fancy. We have cotillions, roughly a hundred guests, tons of food, a program, and so much more. Do you know how they have weddings in North America? It's almost similar to that. We even have a host, and everyone wears formal.
But since I don't have many friends here, I invited my whole class and settled for a party in the basement. A couple of classmates were not able to come because of a prior commitment, and that's okay. Anyway, Quinn and the boys are here and so as Kathy. My bandmates were here too, of course. We are going to play some music while we all eat and chill. We didn't even have to rent because we all have musical instruments. We finished setting
