Wow, can you believe tomorrow is Christmas Eve. CHRISTMAS EVE!!I think this is so monumental to me because I always thought to myself, once you make it through Christmas, it will be easy from then on. Although not quite the half way mark it is super close and after surviving a major family oriented holiday on my own, I should be able to face anything. Another reason this is so huge to me is because living in Thailand, you don’t really see or feel Christmas coming. It just does. One morning you wake up realize you have a week til Christmas and you haven’t done a single festive thing. So you run out to the nearest mall buy all the over marketed things you can find and decorate your bedroom. The gifts start arriving in November and let’s not lie you definitely had a few weak moments and have already opened a couple but, they helped to make this Christmas away easier. A few days before Christmas you start to panic. What am I going to do Christmas morning? Just sit on my bed and open my presents, skype my family and probably go back to sleep. Its depressing, its heart wrenching and its straight up terrifying. Then your host parents tell you they are leaving you home alone for the weekend. When you are all down and depressed, the holiday season brings good news. Luckily for me exchange students have this deep motivation to make their year abroad amazing so we have our tricks and schemes that always make something work out.
Tomorrow, I will head down to Khon Kean, a city about forty five minutes away. I will quickly shop for a secret Santa present and then head out for lunch or something with my friends. We will attend a Khon Kean Rotary Christmas Party then ALL of us will head back to Mamma Kai’s ( a very amazing host mom in Khon Kean who let’s us hang out at her house), for a sleepover. We will wake up the next morning exchange our secret Santa’s and head off to church. Then I am not sure what the plan is. So although I will not be with my loving family from home this year I will be with another amazing family. My Exchange family.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everybody!!J
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