Chrissie
After my birthday life just kept on going as usual. Kids in the morning, work at the spa, kids in the afternoon, friends in the evening. Pretty much the same all days. Some days I didn’t work that much at the spa and I would have time to go to the mall to buy my Christmas presents.
The homegroup that I started every Wednesday had a secret Santa and Christmas dinner which was fun :) I got chocolate… yum. I was planning on meeting up with them every Wednesday next year as well. But as they made it a project to try to read the bible during one year, I’m now considering not going anymore. I wanted to read the whole bible during this year but as I now made the decision to start studying I need to put down my reading time on that. And as one of the courses is Christianity I will have to read the Swedish bible every day. So reading both bibles a lot of passages every day without mixing things together, seem like an impossible task. I might still go to the homegroup… but I wont be able to follow in discussions, which might not be that fun.
I’ve also been out clubbing for the first time here. It was good! And I came to realize how hard it is to know the age of people. When I was 18 and going out I always knew that the youngest guy would be the same as me. But now you can end up dancing and talking with one that’s way younger… So this makes clubbing a not as good place to meet people on as it used to be...
I’ve also been getting to know new amazing people, as always :-)which I love. One guy lives in an apartment with a shower in the bedroom... cheaper rent huh? He didn’t seem to mind, but it looked kinda funny ^^
So Christmas has just passed. I wasn’t really in the Christmas spirit as we don’t have advent, lucia or those kind of traditions as we’ve got at home. And of course, we had no snow. We celebrate on the 25th here as well. Just like in America. I had a party with my friends on Friday evening and took my computer with me to Skype with my parents. Because of the time difference that was the only time to Skype while they would have Christmas and be at grandma and grandpas place. I also ended up skyping one of my friends and my hostfamily from America which was really nice!
Then on Christmas I woke up early at about 7… exhausted as I didn’t get to bed until 2 and woke up by a phone call at 4… I started by making Swedish pancakes for breakfast for 13 people. It was the family, dads sister and her boyfriend, the mums mum and her new husband and the mums brother and his wife! We had breakfast and opened up presents. Then people just chilled out before we started getting ready for lunch. Most of the lunch consisted of seafood which was a huge difference from Sweden. I did like It though and stuffed myself full. Then we had dessert and we had toffees and saffroncake with almond icing in the middle which I had been making on Friday. We also had a another cake and a gingerbreadcake and rumballs and coconutballs… we had way too much and got lots of leftovers.. which we nibbled on later in the evening. I was so tired at around 4 that I ended up watching Donald the duck wishes you a merry Christmas and almost fell asleep. For people that don’t know, in Sweden, Donald the duck is tradition to watch every Christmas.
Today, boxingday, has been so boring. I suppose its good in one way as I got tons of stuff done. Cleaned my room a bit, did my laundry, put some stuff in my travelling book, and writing an update here. Its poring down rain outside… but is still warm and humid outside… and inside!
Tomorrow is a new week and I hope the sun will be back... isn’t this suppose to be sunshine coast?? This week it’s been more of a rainy coast….
♥ Rebecka
