I thought America was rushing the season. Here in the Philippines malls have tree's up, Christmas carols playing at all stores and restaurants, and on the news they give progress reports ONLY 70 MORE DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS – 67... 66. It starts in September and ends in January and then its the Chinese New Year so the holidays hang around a long time. Its just weird in a tropical climate to hear about Christmas and its even weirder when you go to an amusement park and its nothing but Christmas carols blaring, Its driving me nuts. Dashing through the snow in a climate of 109 laughing all the way, bells on Jeepneys ring.... HELP!.
The malls here around Manila are madness. Comparing it to the malls in the Cleveland area, its like the Christmas season times 3, that's how crowded they are. A lot of people though just hang out at the mall because its air conditioned. The two malls I went to were just average malls not upscale. They were very clean and nicer than ours. Mall of Asia was HUGE' very nice stores, all kinds of places to eat AND the store employees look like employees not guests of Jerry Springer. I actually felt that the servers and workers cared about their job and handling food. Not at home for sure.
And a store comparable to say maybe K Mart the workers all had their own department and uniform for that department. I bought a shirt off the rack, nothing special maybe 15 US dollars and the lady took it from me. I thought she was bringing it up to the counter instead she comes back and its neatly packed in plastic with a nice bag. That's class and this is from just an average store. Think of America say mid 60's or earlier, that's how the stores are..
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