Well my name is Zach and I'm your average teen boy. I play sports,Iike to hunt, love music and I'm girl crazy but my life is about to change. I will be going to Finland on exchange for one year. Yes one year. Thats a year without my friends, family, sports, and hunting! While there though I'll make a ton of friends and have the time of my life.
Monday, December 24, 2012
The weekend and Christmas eve
Ok umm on Saturday my package didn't arrive which made me sad. Yet I did go shopping all day in Vaasa with my host brother and Eldest sister. That was fun. Sunday I didn't do much. Cleaned a lot. Went ice skating by my house( I failed). I also helped make mustard( which went on the ham today). Today was Christmas Eve. Today is the big day in Finland. I helped clan some more, and also helped get stuff ready for the meal. At around 3 everyone started to arrive. There was of course our family, My host dads sister's family, grandmother and my host brothers girlfriend. We laughed and drank a Finnish drink called Golgi( the o has two dots over it). Then I read from he bible( tradition for Finns) then we ate. The food was good. Had a carrot and then a turnip casserole, cheesy veggies, salmon, baked ham with a mustard- bread crumb covering, potato's, and gravy. Then for dessert we had a like coffee chocolate vanilla dish my eldest host sister made. It was really good and tasted like jamocha almond fudge. Then we opened gifts. I go a lot so I wont name them, But it was a good Christmas. I did receive a lot of chocolate which will probably last me until next week( a normal person a year). Then we had coffee and people left. A little later on we went to the cemetery to put candles on the grave of my host father's father and brother. It was a beautiful sight with candles on every grave. There was even a place where you could put candles for family who has passed elsewhere. I wish I would have bought a couple to place for my aunt and nephew. Then came home and exchanged a couple more special gifts for us fam. Then watched a movie( brave) in Finnish and drank Swiss mix coco( a gift). Now I am getting ready for bed. Night.
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