Beginning of the Christmas holiday

20th-23rd of December, Sat-Tue

The days before the holidays are always a blur. Not just for me, but for everybody in the world. Last minute present shopping, party planning, decorating. Plus I have to pack. Pack to go back home on Friday, and pack to move host families. This is my last week with the Parkers.
  On Saturday, me, Herb and Sun, we went to a 2 hour church Christmas choir concert rehearsal. This was my first rehearsal, for I have missed the previous ones. I didn't really feel comfortable presenting 5 new songs the next day, so I gave up the church choir. Instead, I had a sleepover at Alma's. We stayed up til 4 am between Saturday and Sunday. We watched like 4 movies, and ate pizza. My happiness was complete!
  On Monday, Herb took me and Sun to Hobby Lobby, a hobby store in Webster. We had lunch at the Dinosaur BBQ place downtown. It's a smoky half bar, half restaurant establishment, with limited lighting, cool decorations and delicious BBQ. I had a salad, but I couldn't finish it, the portions were so big. Should be used to it by now, American restaurant portion are crazy.
  In the evening, I went over to the Masiello's for a mini-dinner-party. I met Zach, Kim's son, who lives in Seattle and just came over for the holidays. He works at Microsoft. He's such a geek (and I say this in the best way possible, because I consider myself one too, although, I'm clearly an illiterate person in terms of computers compared to him), and he reminds me of my friends at home, who are also geeks. As it happened, Larry Wills and a few Masiello family members came over, and we had mac-n-cheese, salad and ham. Yummy, as usual at the Masiello house.
  My Tuesday was unproductively awesome. I can't honestly say, that I got out of bed, or changed my pyjamas. These are the best days, I'm telling you.