I really do have great friends here that act as my family when I need them. We are all in the exact same situation, but all of our situations are so different at the exact same time!
For Christmas, we went to a guy's house who we didn't even know! We were trying to figure out which of our places would be big enough to host everyone and then a guy names Justin saved the day! Justin is a friend of MJ, who is Korean American. He grew up in California, but his dad lives in Korea, and works pretty high up in the government I guess. They have a house in Daegu, that is rarely lived in and it was a large house for Korean standards. It was very roomy for all of us to lounge in!
The first order of business was food... Doing this, MJ almost burned the house down! That might be a slight exaggeration, but there was a visible fire that happened in the oven. The kitchen was full of smoke, but no alarms happened. That's good!
The cinnamon rolls were worth the fire though! YUM!
Truly felt like Christmas we the Nintendo 64 was brought out! We played Mario Kart, which was awesome since we all grew up with this game and those controllers!
There was tons of yummy food! I brought cheese balls to share in memory of my Grandpa, but there were lots of great sweets! Some of these included Banoffee Pie, Milk Tart, and homemade cinnamon rolls! So good! :)
Santa Socks! Sian and I have many "homance" socks. We buy each other socks and wear them! These are our Christmas socks!
MJ, Emily, and Erin
We did a white elephant exchange. It was fun because many of the people had never done this kind of gift exchange. The Brits thought that is was quite bizzaar that we were stealing gifts on Christmas, but it was all in good fun! I think they enjoyed it in the end. I ended up with some fantastic banana slippers that have a Korean winking eye on them. LOVE them! :)
Relaxing...
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