Thursday, December 24, 2015

Christmas Eve - The European Way

Today is Christmas Eve! We watched a Christmas TV movie that is on every year on Christmas Eve, which is a film adaptation of Cinderella but not all Disneyafied. It was pretty good. Later Julian, Thomas and I walked to the church where it was a carol service and the little kids put on a nativity scene. Laura and Karin didn't come because Laura wasn't felling well and Karin was making dinner. After the church service we walked back home in the dark. We then had dinner with Laura and Julian's Opa and Oma. Dinner was pork, salad and noodles from ALB-GOLD, the noodle factory that we went to on Monday. After dinner was presents time. Both Laura and Julian were very excited about their Avengers and Minecraft poster that I gave them. I was also very surprised when I opened a box and inside was a huge box of 100 single serve MILO sachets. For those of you who don't know, I drink maybe 2 litres of milk per day, and almost all of it is with MILO. Now MILO isn't in Germany which is ok because I have been having kakao (cocoa), but it was good to have a MILO drink again :) Mum and Dad brought it with them on the school trip and left them with the Kletts to give to me on Christmas Eve. Which leads into a big difference. In Europe, people open their Christmas presents on the evening of Christmas Eve rather than on the morning of Christmas Day. Now if the hype killed you from waking up and having to wait to open your presents, imagine what it would be like hyping up for a whole day before! I don't know how they would do it! Later I played some Minecraft with Julian.


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