Post by LittleGreen on Dec 25, 2004 14:59:31 GMT -5
I know that a lot of you don't like xmas and don't even want to hear it mentioned, but I really don't care. I wanna wish you all a very Merry Christmas (Hyvaa Joulua!) and share a bit of my untraditional christmas this year. And i'd love to know what others do/did.
Soo. ASide from having a flu like everyone in this family right now, it's been great. On Christmas Eve I spent 2 hours on the phone with my own family, which was of course the best part of the whole day. Later we just slept and watched movies, I was too tired to read. But in the evening I was well enough to get dressed and go christmas caroling with my host mum's sister, her daughter and son and the kid. I had a whiskey before we left, after all, everyone knows that alchohol cures.. >.> After that caroling we picked up my host mum and went to Outback to have our christmas eve supper. Needless to say, my appetite wasn't the best, but teh food was great and so were the 2 vodka/lime juice drinks I had. And who said you have to be 21 to drink here? Not when your host mum's 38yo nephew keeps flirting with you and buying you drinks. o.o I have to say that even though the whole family said that 'I'm a keeper' and that if Tony doesn't marry me, the kid should...20 years is a little bit too much. And so is 8 years to the other direction. Anyways, he might've spent the evening flirting with me half-seriously, but I saved his relationship by finding out that the reason he couldn't figure how to reply SMSes on hi cell is because his brand new $500 cell doesn't send messages. And sent his gf a message from my cell to explain it and so on. Hey, I got 2 bucks for a 15 cent message!
This morning we got up around 11 and admired the kids patience for not opening any gifts before everyone was up and ready. Even I got some really nice presents and that made me happy. Soon we'll go for dinner at my host mum's cousins and her sister will embarras me more introducing me to everyone as 'the sweet, sweet au pair from Finland who speaks 7 languages - and look at that marvellous blonde hair!' It's not even blonde, but I gave up.. >.<
So my Christmas was a nice one, though very different from the usual ones in Finland. And I don't even have to be jealous of my family, since they only had 1cm snow. No white christmas for me either, but I really hope a white and snowy new year will do instead ^^
Soo. ASide from having a flu like everyone in this family right now, it's been great. On Christmas Eve I spent 2 hours on the phone with my own family, which was of course the best part of the whole day. Later we just slept and watched movies, I was too tired to read. But in the evening I was well enough to get dressed and go christmas caroling with my host mum's sister, her daughter and son and the kid. I had a whiskey before we left, after all, everyone knows that alchohol cures.. >.> After that caroling we picked up my host mum and went to Outback to have our christmas eve supper. Needless to say, my appetite wasn't the best, but teh food was great and so were the 2 vodka/lime juice drinks I had. And who said you have to be 21 to drink here? Not when your host mum's 38yo nephew keeps flirting with you and buying you drinks. o.o I have to say that even though the whole family said that 'I'm a keeper' and that if Tony doesn't marry me, the kid should...20 years is a little bit too much. And so is 8 years to the other direction. Anyways, he might've spent the evening flirting with me half-seriously, but I saved his relationship by finding out that the reason he couldn't figure how to reply SMSes on hi cell is because his brand new $500 cell doesn't send messages. And sent his gf a message from my cell to explain it and so on. Hey, I got 2 bucks for a 15 cent message!
This morning we got up around 11 and admired the kids patience for not opening any gifts before everyone was up and ready. Even I got some really nice presents and that made me happy. Soon we'll go for dinner at my host mum's cousins and her sister will embarras me more introducing me to everyone as 'the sweet, sweet au pair from Finland who speaks 7 languages - and look at that marvellous blonde hair!' It's not even blonde, but I gave up.. >.<
So my Christmas was a nice one, though very different from the usual ones in Finland. And I don't even have to be jealous of my family, since they only had 1cm snow. No white christmas for me either, but I really hope a white and snowy new year will do instead ^^
