1 more day!

Oh my gosh tomorrow is Christmas Eve! Today I helped my grandma clean & prepare for the Christmas dinner tomorrow. My aunt & uncle & cousins are coming over:) Here they open presents on Christmas Eve, so I'll be opening the ones from here then, and the ones from Montana on Christmas morning.

I'm also probably going to midnight mass with my grandma and cousin tomorrow, so I'm going to bed a bit earlier. I can't wait for Christmas!        🎅🎄🎁

Presents(!!!)

I dorm like to get out the wrapping paper and tape and scissors and markers and paper and cards and bows and such to wrap presents with until I have all the presents I want to wrap. Which means I wrapped all my Christmas presents today! It's really strange picking out presents for people that I usually don't, and not giving things to my brother and parents. Meh. I have way fewer presents to give this year. Only my grandparents and cousins and aunt and uncle. 

Only two more days until Christmas! Yippee! This was the sunset when I was walking home with my grandma after grocery shopping. 😱 So gorgeous. 

Christmas tree, swimming, & cookie fail

Today I got up late and helped my grandma decorate her fake mini Christmas tree. Apparently my dad calls it the Charlie Brown tree. It's tiny. It only took about 1/2 hour to decorate. I'm used to a real & much larger tree that takes most of the afternoon to decorate... But it was still fun. My grandma has to have everything just so, therefore it was basically her giving me ornaments and then rearranging them until they looked symmetrical enough. She's adorable. 

After lunch I went swimming in the indoor pool literally across the street from my grandparent's apartment with Lara & Dominic. It was pretty fun:) We basically just hung out & talked.

Then I went over to Dominic and Lara's house and we attempted to make cookies. There's a particular type of cookie (I don't know if it's a swiss specialty or something?) that's called a "Spitzbueb". I honestly don't know how to translate that... Uhh... "Bueb" means "boy" in swiss-german, and "spitz" means "tip" (like the tip of the tower), but together they mean something along the lines of "mischievous boy". I don't know why. It just is that way. They're two cookies with jam in the middle, and usually a face or a heart cut out of the top cookie, so the jam peeks through. With powdered sugar on top. They're so good. However, it took us forever to cut out the cookies, because the dough is impossible to work with. Then we only had a small amount of dough, so we couldn't make very many. (26, to be exact) And lastly, when we put them in the oven, they melted quite a bit... So basically all the careful cutting out we'd done was useless. Oh well. I got to eat some yummy cookies, and we had fun.

Friday! Christmas break!

Yay Christmas break!!! Today was super fun. We only had one hour of music in the morning because the second period was an orchestra concert, and choir was canceled because Christmas/the teachers are nice. So we had two hours for lunch, and three other girls and I went to the lake.

Then we had an hour less of math, because of the "atempause" I mentioned in my last post. I got to sing a song called "there's a girl that I love" (don't know who wrote it) that is in a round. It's super pretty and has like a secret message, a place, at the end when the round finishes. And a bunch of other classes did different things, basically it was a little celebration that there's a break, and happiness about the holiday season and the accomplishments of the school.

After I Skyped with my mom in the evening, Lara and Lea and I were going to go ice skating, but it started raining. So we had a movie night instead. It was still super fun. (My friend took this picture & I thought it was cool, so...)

I'm so excited it's finally Christmas break!

Happy day of school

Today was a usual day, except I went to lunch with a bunch of other girls from my class & then went shopping because we had a double lunch period. It was super fun. Tomorrow we are supposed to dress a bit more elegant, and I get to sing with my music class at the "atempause" (literally breath pause??) tomorrow instead of going to math. I don't really know what it is... I guess I'll find out. But only one more day until Christmas break! I'm so excited!

Also, I don't know if I mentioned this before, but our class is doing a secret Santa type thing, and I got a bunch of delicious chocolate from my secret Santa today:) Basically it was a good day.

Christmas market (again)

Today I had a half day, like every Wednesday, and afterwards I went to the Christmas market again to get presents for my grandma, aunt & uncle, and my little brother. (Gage, I'll give you your present when I come home:)) 

I'm so excited for Christmas ahhhh only two more days of school! I can't wait! (Shoutout to Stephanie for skyping with me for forever)

Surrrrnday

Today I did homework, practiced Christmas music on the piano (finally!!), cleaned my room, and Skyped with Stephanie. 

My class is doing a sort of secret Santa thing where you get a name and you have to give that person little gifts without them knowing who you are... I'm giving the girl that I got a pretty ring tomorrow, and a scarf on Thursday or Friday. I already got an adorable little "Schutzengel" (protector angel) from my secret Santa. :)

Only one more week of school until Christmas break!