Okay! So for my Christmas eve, I slept for most of the day. I know, really exciting right? Anyways, when I woke up around noon, I took a shower and ate lunch with my host family. After lunch, when everyone went to their rooms for their daily nap, I had one last present to finish. The day before when I went to the mall with my friends, I had bought permanent markers and two coffee mugs. I don't know if you've heard of it, but you can draw on mugs with sharpies and then bake them and it's supposed to last forever. So I was a little scared, because they don't actually have sharpies in Italy and I didn't know if other permanent markers would work. So, I drew my designs on both of the mugs and put them in the oven to cook. After they cooked for half an hour, I let them cool and then tested washing them. Fortunately, the designs seemed to be permanent.
After that, I spent the rest of the afternoon helping wrap last minute presents and listening to Christmas music. I just want to add that since the first of December, there was Christmas music always playing in the house. At about eight o'clock that night, We all headed to my host grandparents house for dinner. We started off the night with a toast and then all headed to the dining room to eat. I forgot to get a picture of the table before we all ate, but it was set really fancy with like two forks, two spoon, and about three glasses for each person. So the first plate was served and we ate tortellini in broth. Then, for the second plate we ate cooked spinach (which tastes like eating grass), mashed potatoes, and cow tongue. After the second plate, we all took a little break. After about 20 minutes, everyone headed back to the table for the third plate. This time, I was a little less pleased with the food. There was this meat that I was told was like a mix of different meats together which would have been okay except that when I actually saw it, it looked like raw ground beef only really light pink. When I took a bite, the texture wasn't much better. On the side, there was also sauerkraut and something else similar. After everyone finished we had the first dessert which was cookies to dip in the Champaign and torrone. After we finish all of those, We then had panetone. So panetone is like this giant like cake-like thing with raisins inside, and its really dry. I honestly hate panetone and can't tell you how many times I had to eat it in the month of December. If you've never denied food from an Italian, I will tell you, it is one of the hardest things to do! After that, we all headed to the living room to open our presents. Then by the time we finished, it was about one in the morning and we headed home.
The next morning, I woke up at about 8 and got ready because I was going to my counselors house for Christmas lunch. They picked me up around 11 and we headed to their house in the mountain. It was a lot more relaxed than the night before and we ate a lot less food. My counselor and his wife have 2 sons who both came home for Christmas ( one live in Brazil and the other in San Francisco) and there was also the girlfriend of one who was also American. She didn't speak any Italian and it was kind of interesting to see. As I watched her I realized how similar we were and how far I've come since I got here. After we ate, we spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing and playing card games until my host parents came to pick me up around six.
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