Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Today I got up earlier than I wanted to so that I could unwrap my presents from Montana. It was a super awesome surprise to see my stocking here... My mom gave it to my grandma in New York. Merry Christmas! 

Christmas Eve Day

Today I helped my grandma prepare for dinner pretty much all day. Then we had my cousins and aunt & uncle over, and ate a yummy dinner and unwrapped presents. We Skyped with my parents and then I got to unwrap my presents from my swiss relatives:) Then my grandma, cousin, and I went to midnight mass. It was gorgeous!

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 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)

Long lunch!

Today I had three hours for lunch because history and study hall got canceled. Yippee! So I went into Zürich with a bunch of other girls in my class to this adorable little underground Italian take-away place. It was so so so good:)

Then when I got home (why is it already dark at 5pm?!) I was greeted by an adorable little package sitting on my desk with the return address of  a certain Kayli. She sent me a late birthday present!! Yay! I got even more skittles:) It made my week. Thank you Kayliiiiii.

Then tonight at about 7pm I decide it would be a good idea to update my phone, because iOS 8.1.1 is available and my phone keeps sending me notifications. I figure it can't take more than a few hours, right? Well apparently I was not right. Right now it says 5 hours remaining. So... I guess I'll go to bed and cross my fingers that when I get up it'll be done? *crosses fingers*  oh wait, now it says 4 hours... I'm so confused. Is this a good sign?

Sweet Sweet Sixteen

So today was the best day ever. Seriously. I woke up and went to school, where my awesome classmates had put up balloons, a banner that said "Happy Birthday", and a type of cookie called "Zimtsterne" that is never had before. Then two girls from my class and I went to Starbucks for lunch just cause.

When I came home I unwrapped my presents from my friends/family back home and was super surprised. Thank you Katie, Miranda, and Grammy Susan!

I went to dinner with my grandparents and aunt and uncle and cousins, whence was super nice. Lara and I danced around outside to loud music afterwards. (I look like I'm in pain but I'm actually very passionately singing to Taylor Swift. I promise.)

Then I came home and unwrapped my presents from my Mom & Dad & Gage. Thank you all so much!

Pretty much the best birthday in the history of ever. <3

Friday! Week 6!

Today I had school... the usual... and after school I went to Lara's. Her friend Leah grows really fast and is really tall so she gives a lot of hand-me-downs to Lara, and if Lara doesn't like them, she gives them to me. So I got some new clothes! Yippee!

Tomorrow I'm going to do homework and go buy chocolate and presents and such to bring to New York in a few weeks to give to my friends and family. :)

End of the Year

All of a sudden everyone has literally gone crazy. I swear.

We only have one more day of school left, so naturally everything that didn't get done during the school year absolutely must get done now. Asap.

So yesterday I went to church choir practice for the first time, and we had some cake... It was pretty awesome. And before I left, some people gave me cards. I opened then when I got home, and I was super touched that the wonderful people in that choir decided to give me some jewelry and some money (?!). It was super sweet, and totally unexpected. So that was fun...

Then today was the second-to-last day of school, so in all of my classes we either took tests or partied. We had a breakfast party in Choir, that was awesome...:) Hey, but it's Friday!!!

Tonight I get to hang out with Katie, and tomorrow I get to have a party with all of my old grade school friends to say goodbye. Only eight days until we leave!
Bye!