Christmas, New Year’s Eve and special visit…

It’s been, as always, a long time ago, since I wrote the last post. Sorry again, but if you experience things and time passes you don’t really feel like writing about it. But I know how much I enjoy reading posts from other exchange students, so I guess, I have to write, too.

So, this was my first american Christmas. On the 24th I talked to my family in germany and I could watch them opening their presents over “skype”. It was really nice and I kind a felt like I was sitting there next to them. On christmas eve, here in Florida, we had a little christmas party with our family, including grandma, aunt and uncle. We had really good food and played some games.

On christmas morning everyone got up at 8 a.m. and we sat down next to our christmas tree with the presents. My hostdad played “Santa” and gave everyone each present and we startet opening them. It was weird to open presents in the morning and it didn’t really feel like christmas, but it was still really nice and something special. We had a big breakfast afterwards with bacon, pancakes, scrambled eggs, coffee and juice.

Later the day we went to our aunts and uncles house and had a big lunch/dinner and everybody got more presents. We played some more games and just sat together and I really enjoyed it, I just like being around their family, they’re so nice!

Saturday came our family (my hostdad’s brother with his family and his exchange student from norway, Maren). They stayed for a week and we did a lot of fun stuff togheter. We went canooing for 4 hours which was kind a exhausting and our muscles hurt so bad. They went to disney for 2 days, we went shopping at “Millenia mall” which is probably the coolest and biggest mall, I’ve ever seen, we went out for dinner, played “Wii” (which we got for christmas) and had a good time.

Wednesday the 31st was New year’s Eve. Maren, I and my american friend Christine went to our friends concert, who play reggae in a band and there were a lot of people from our school and it was fun, I really like their music. Afterwards we went home and celebrated with our familys and some neighbours the new year. The whole night was different from the things we do in Germany at New Year’s, but it was still fun and I had a good time.

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