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Christmas

So... I guess I haven't talked about Christmas yet. I was still at my first host families house for Christmas. For that week Edna's host siblings came and we were 10 people in total at Christmas. The first ones to come were the oldest host brother and his girlfriend, then the next day middle bother and the next day the youngest brother and his girlfriend. Usually here Christmas is celebrated on the 24th of December but they did it on the 25th because the youngest brother wasn't there yet. On Christmas day everyone but Salome (older host sister), Christa and I went off at around noon to play a game of tennis. I helped Christa make dinner. She was making a six course dinner. I helped make the Raviolli and it was so much fun! We made the pasta dough from scratch and I loved making it! For dinner we had first a soup, then a salad, then raviolli, then we had a beet wellignton, then a huge piece of the best meet I've ever had and then we had a dessert that was something with creme. After that we sang some Christmas songs and then opened gifts. It was a really good time. The next day the brothers went out and visited some other family and it was just Edna and me. Oh! On the 24th of December I was alone at the house for a while and I ended up watching Braveheart. Ugh! Wow. I couldn't believe the ending! Ugh! That was my Christmas basically. Oh! We did Secret Santa with the siblings and we drew the names out of a hat a month before and I was thinking that it would be fantastic if I got Edna cause I could do so many insider jokes with her, and I chose her name! So, a few months ago Edna and I got into a huge fight about Shakespeare and she still brings it up sometimes. So, I got her Juilus Cesear written by Shakespeare, I got her a bottle of shampoo from Lush that was called Happy Hippie because I call her Hippie, the book that I got her from our France trip, and a jar of honey, because we always say "Oh... Honey..." and when she opened it I didn't think she got it. I wrote her a card as well but she didn't read it till the next day and she started to cry. I then explained the gifts to her and she finally understood the jokes. And that was Christmas.

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