Merry Christmas

Saturday: We went to a sermon in Stuttgart - Marion and I - because someone invited us to go there. It was a really dynamic and young church and I appreciated most of the service. There were just a few things that I would have changed... oh well. What this meant though, was that we had to get up at 6 in the morning, leave the house around 7 to get on the train to Stuttgart. Since the church is not located directly in Stuttgart, but in a suburb we had to change trains two times and then take the bus. The good thing was that we met the guy who had invited us, therefore we didn't have to worry about which stop to get off the bus etc. Since it was a special Christmas service, this church was packed with people of the surrounding churches who all went to visit. I think the church didn't expect so many people coming :)
We got home around 2:30. Luckily we ate breakfast in the morning, because we knew that it would take a long time until we get the next meal. My family was already sleeping and Marion and I ate the rests of the lunch. It was a great lunch we ate pâté (I looked this word up and I don't know if it can be used for what we had) which tasted really good.
Then I wanted to take my Saturday afternoon nap, but my feet stayed so cold for about one and a half hours that, by the time we got our presents, I had still not slept any. I was annoyed by that, because I was tired (as usual). Tabea couldn't wait to get her presents and therefore my mom told her to be patient. It was so cute to have someone who couldn't await unpacking the presents. I have probably been the same way when I was little, but during my time it was the three of us being unpatient (Sascha, Marion and I) therefore it wasn't as obvious as it was with Tabea on Saturday. First we sang some Christmas carols, because I really wanted to do that, but I got hoarse after the first song :( It made me sad, because I really wanted to sing several songs. Oh well. Since the carol singing didn't work out we went to unwrap the presents and Tabea was allowed to start. Man you should have seen her... After she was done, everybody else opened their presents. I got a lot of nice things, a new sweater, a new shirt, some new socks (all things which I really needed :) ) then of course money (Tabea gave me 55€!! She did it in such a matter that I wouldn't know at first that the money was from her. She got my mom to write on the envelope and gave me an extra 5€ bill from her so that it won't be obvious - she was so happy that it worked...) This was the greatest gift, because it was from her and usually she is so self-centered and this time she gave me so much.
Marion and I we gave my dad a game which we tried out as our Saturday night family time. It is a real cool and logical game and guess who won...... it was Tabea. I don't know how she managed to win, but Marion, my mom and dad (they were one group), and I really put a lot of thought in the game and still it didn't work out. It was really funny and my little sis was very happy. No one manipulated the game so that she might win, she won because she was the best! After we finished the game we watched a movie, but the first one was really dumb, so we just stopped after watching about 15 minutes of it and we got ourselves another movie - some science fiction movie which I don't appreciate a lot but still stayed for the sake of family time and because I was "forced" to since we watched it in my room :)

On Sunday I slept in until 10 AM. This was a great feeling to be able to sleep in without having an alarm waking you up. When I got up I decided to create some covers for the 16 classical CD's I got from Montha. They didn't have a case, they were just in a huge wallpaper case. I looked for further information of the composers eg from what period they were from, during which years they lived etc. in order to gain some more background knowledge, since I am really bad with all of that. This took really long and then we had to leave for my grandma's around 2. In order to not waste my time in the car I took a book with me, something I wanted to read in order to repeat what we have done in class. I finished the book on the way back just 5 minutes before we got home. It felt really great to have something done.
I think my grandma was a little disappointed because we got there so late and she had waited the whole day not going outside in order to not miss our phone call... I felt really sad. Anyway we had a really nice time and for the last half hour we went to visit my grandpa too. The house had a really strange smell and my sisters and I decided after we had left the house that this usually wasn't as bad ;) I played a little violin for them, because they had helped to finance it. I think they were a tiny bit bored but oh well. At least I have done my duty.
Oh and before we went to my grandma's we picked up Tabea's friend also. Because of that we had very limited space on the way back with the violin her luggage and six people in the car but we got home all right. When we finally were home I finished my covers for the CD's and then I chatted a little bit with Priscilla and then she called me and we wished each other Merry Christmas and also all of the families. Oh guess what... I am just looking outside the window and now it is snowing (two days late).