Well not much to say about this Christmas Break, or is there?! I celebrated Christmas here and it was really very interesting! I woke up and traveled downstairs to find two carp swimming in my bath tub. I named them Denis and Captain Larry. They WERE my friends... but then about 6 hours later I have a friend over and am so excited about the fish I took them to go and see it and the bath tup was EMPTY! I travelled now back to the sink and there they were... chopped up and gutted out. And the guts... cavaier soup anyone? Yes that is what I had for Christmas dinner. Carp and cavaier soup and potato salad. Luckily the potato salad was good. But the soup... it ended up in the toilet. Haha. It didn't taste bad... but knowing I was eating little fish and the texture... yea... it wasn't too good. The reason why they had fish in the bath tub because there are ONLY fresh fish markets in teh main square and you buy them live and then put them into your tub until you are ready to cook them... and just to think.. I TOOK A BATH IN THAT TUB!!! AHGGGG! >.<
I got some nice gifts from my host family. It consisted of a scarf, earrings, necklace, t-shirt, rubber ducky(host brother inside joke), panda boxers (host sister inside joke) and a couple other ornaments and reminders of my Christmas in Czech Republic. My host family loved their gifts~ I made my host mom a hanging paper crane mobile! She loved it alot. I got my host brother a satan ducky. My host sister I made her a scarf (crocheted) my other host sister I made socks with buttons on them. She loves socks. I painted my host father a picture. I figured that homemade gifts would be the best because really... me buying czech gifts for my czech family? I would utterly fail at it. But they enjoyed it so much. My real mom made them a little door hanging thing with snowmen and having all the families name and last name. My mom is so handy! My host mom was thrilled by it. It is now hanging on the door. Sadly... it was a bad Christmas day. Christmas eve is the biggest day of the 3 days of Christmas since the day after Christmas day is a Saint day here. But I pretty much spent Christmas day in my bed... thinking about all the special programs on TV. My family... friends. It was a hard time. But I figured that my Christmas eve was wonderful so it's alright! And I opened my "presents" from my parents back at home on Skype with them. So my Christmas was STILL more than I could have asked for. I enjoyed it alot. On Christmas eve we put up the tree and decorated it with ONLY food. It's so crazy they sell these chocolate ornaments at the stores for your tree! Haha. Who would have thought.. screw those glass ornaments! And we made ginger bread and decorated it also and put it on the tree! My favorite was the so-called baby ginger bread ornament. Personally I thought it looked like an icecream cone... but you can be the judge of that now ;)
There are ALOT of baked goods. And sadly it isn't good there's so much. But another sad note is that I love baking here because I am bored alot of the times and now I don't think I should bake anything considering there's a 3 box full of baked goods. Oh dear....
There is no snow at the time being... but it currently is snowing and hailing so it's a good sign. I may go ice skating tomorrow and the river should be freezing up soon so I can spend my ice skating adventure there.
I would like to wish EVERYONE a very Merry Christmas from Czech Republic.. but more importantly I would like to thank everyone for being so supportive of me on my travels and I can't thank you enough for that. It is quite the experience and emotional ride of life being here. I am really understanding just EVERYTHING with open eyes and I can't thank anyone more than the other. It really is just an amazing feeling that I am exchanging and full filling my dream already so early in life.
On a side note, I am switching host families in 2 weeks so be updated for my new address!
So one quick thing before I leave this post... I got poprocks from my friend Mouge... back in USA and I had my host mom try them... HAHA! She had no clue what was coming! Oh europeans ;)
Bye for now!
-April Ann
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