December was a busy month for me. I celebrated my first saint nicholas and my first Christmas away from my family. It was actually easier than I thought. Before it was Christmas my town had its annual fete de noel. What it entailed was walking 8 km and at each kilometer there was a stop to drink hot chocolate or hot wine or peke. The whole town does it; its a tour of the village. It was so much fun. My friends from scouts were there and I went with Sofia. At the end there was hotdogs with sauerkraut, soup, brownies, and other things it was great to see everyone from town.
Christmas was fun with my family. But it was different that what I was used to one thing was that we set up the Christmas decorations the week of Christmas. In Sacramento we set up Dec 1st at the latest. haha Also we opened presents Christmas Eve at 7. I usually open up the morning. I gave my family their gifts in the morning because I had stockings for them which are meant to be opened in the morning. Another thing was that my family only gives one gift per person. I got all of them a gift not knowing this. We didn't go to mass which made me sad because Europe has all of these gorgeous churches and Europeans rarely go except on Christmas.
Christmas eve we went to the house of a relative of my host dad Max. He has a huge family there were 30 plus people there. It was the first time I had met them. When I first got there it was akward but, it got better as the night went on. I ended up having a great time. There were a lot of kids my age. I had a lot of fun with Vinncent and Laurent. And we played in trival persut in French and I answered more questions than the other kids.
The next day I went sledding with William after Christmas lunch. We had gotten a lot of snow that week so it was perfect for sledding. I fell deep into the snow a couple times I had to dig myself out. I was a beautiful day also. The sun was out and I could see for miles we went to the highest hill in the city.
The next day I had dinner with my host mom's family it was boring. But, no worries.
We need to skype soon! This sounds awesome! (I've been terribly busy as well lately switching host families and such) But I miss ya in the sense we haven't talked for several months! So we need to fix that asap^^ Keep having amazing times in BELGIUM in the mean time :)
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