Christmas

In 3 days now finally Chrismas is gonna be here. and here everything is prepared for it.

About 2 weeks earlier we decorated our Chrismastree with my Hostmums uncles. Friday we bought it, brought it home on the top of our car, because the inside was a little bit too small;)

At home we decorated it with all different kinds of Decoration, and with lights, electric lights!!!!!! I wanted candles, but you can't find those things, where you put the candles in and so I didn't get my nice,shiny candles;)

Then later at the day we made cookies, Curt, one of my Hostuncles made big candie canes out of instant cookie dough and i tried to do nice german cookies, but most of the time the did't turn out, like they are supposed toi be. The instant cookiedough cookies were later decorated so cute, that I didn't wanna eat them ;)

and Dallas, the other uncle made really cool 'cookies' out of pretzels( salzbrezeln) and hershey kisses ( little chocolate thingies) and M&Ms, they were soooooo delicious!!!

after all the cookies were done we got our first christmas presents, because it is a tradition in this family, that you open your gifts, when the person, who brought them comes and can watch you ^^

I got some things from the movie 'Twilight' a pretty cool movie, which I really liked to watch, it is about vampires!!!!!!

Because this saturday was the 6th of december i surprised everybody with a little bag of treats at the evening, because herer they don't have 'Nikolaus', actually they think that he's the one who brings us the presents on Chrismas eve and not the 'Christkind' so I always have to explain, how we celebrate Chrismas in Germany^^
It is gonna be weird for me this year, becaue here they open the presents on the 25th in the morning and not the 24th. About that i already had a dicussion with Fil, because last Thursday i said, it's not even one week left to Christmas and he said it was exactly one week, but then we figured out, that i meant the 24th and he the 25th^^
that means actually santa comes in the night between the 24th and the 25th, and you usually put out cokkies ans milk for him, because he has such a busy night ;)
And there are also the stockings at the fireplaces, in which santa puts treats or small toys, the big presents are coming under the tree.
we are gonna go to church on the 24th, so it's like our 'Christmette'
that's for my mum; we don't have plum-pudding, that is really really British, but on Christmas Day (25th) we are gonna have Ham, what is really typical for Chrismas here, nut at the evening before, we only have something pretty simple.
And we don't have boxing day.
tomorrow I'm gonna have my Christmas concert which is gonna be kind of weird. before it we are having a spaghetti dinner ( some people say here dinner for lunch and supper for dinner, so it's actually a spaghetti lunch because our concert is gonna be at 2:30 in the afternoon, and the dinner/lunch starts at 1), where i have to serve, because the money we raise through it is gonna be for winterguard and i'm in there so I have to work for it^^
then the concert, we're not all playing together, but every section ( instrument) is gonna have its own music. and for the end the whole band is gonna play 'Sleigh Ride', which is gonna be conducted by oue principal, what is not gonna be that much fun^^
Yesterday I had a APES (Advanced Placement Environmental Science) Test for the end of the semster, I was so scared, because we had to know everything we already learned in the whole year, that means about 400 pages in our Science book. But i think I did good^^
so, I wish you all a merry Christmas, und 'nen guten rutsch ins neue Jahr ;) hab euch lieb und vielleicht bringt euch das Christkind in form meiner Schwester auch was zu Weihnachten^^