Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I know I am a little late and that I have not updated in a while.

Well tomorrow is the last day of my winter vacation and I am going to go and have fun with Kevin, Andrew and maybe some other girl that I do not know. We are going to ice skate! I did that last week and I really thought that I had lost all of my skills in it but it turned out that I actually could skate kind of good. Not super good but at least I did not fall and I could go in a pretty good speed.

Christmas was wonderful! Of course I missed my family and all traditions we have but I had a great time here in the US. A lot of new food that was amazing and I met a lot of new people in the family. I also got a lot of Christmas presents. Much more then I was expecting. I got a album where you can collect all the 50 states that are on the back of the quarters. I am half way and I really hope that I can finish it before I go home. That would be so cool! I also got a bracelet with American coins hanging down from it. I love it! I love all of my Christmas presents but I am not going to tell you about more.

New Year was so different from what I am used too, not just because Marlene was not there. New Year is not as big here in America; Christmas is the biggest one, so you do not celebrate it as much as in Europe. I got ready in one hour and a half, pretty good if you compare with last year. Ask Marlene for more information about that! After I got ready I went away to celebrate the New Year with Kevin and his family. I had peanut butter and jelly sandwich for the first time, let me just say that it was useful, I also had sloppy Joe’s for the first time. Yummy! We played super Mario on Wii, I was not very good and I died all the time. We also shot some fire works. They had a cracker that was 1000 cracker in it! It was long and it took a while for it to burn! Kevin’s mom had bought this New Year stuff, big 2010 glasses and necklace and hats and all so we looked kind of ready for the New Year to come. I did not ring in the year with them, I went home around eleven but I made Host Dad stay up and Host Mom ended up staying too. Well she was playing Farmville but at least she said Happy New Year when it was time for that.

Yesterday I stayed in my pajamas and watched One Tree Hill all day! Until there was no more episodes released. Next one is on TV tomorrow but we do not have the channel, but it will not take long until it is out on the internet.

I hope you all had a wonderful Holiday and that you did not miss me too much!