So winter break was not super exciting for me, neither were Christmas or New Years, but they could have been worse.
For Christmas eve, my friend's parents took us out to dinner and they treated us (against our will, we wanted to pay.) We had some cookies that night, too. Her parents were entirely too nice to us. They brought us SO MUCH FOOD. That made me feel loved. :)
On Christmas day, I slept in probably the latest I have ever slept in on Christmas. At around 11 am those of us still around got together with the parents again and we made a gingerbread house that they had brought with them! (I tell you, way too nice!!!) It turned out halfway decent and we had a lot of fun! Later in the day we all cooked Christmas dinner together. It was way better than I expected (since we only have hot plates to use). We had pan friend chicken, vegetable medley, potatoes, stuffing, a baguette, and some illicit wine that we somehow got away with drinking in the downstairs common area (alcohol in any form, for any reason is prohibited in the dorm.) Afterwards, we had, you guessed it, MORE COOKIES! Cookies cookies cookies cookies.
It was very, very nice of he parents to include us in their holiday festivities. It felt nice to have someone's family there, even if I couldn't have my own.
I had a very chill week after that. Lots of wandering around the city and getting food and the like.
For New Year's eve many of my friends went to Paris, but as I did not have the money at the time of planning, I stuck around Dijon. I had dinner with some American girls at a Taiwanese restaurant and it was very good! They even gave us a free apéritif (a drink for before meals) because of the holiday. After dinner, my friend and I saw Le Chat Potté (Puss in Boots) in the theater in 3D. I would have preferred it to not have been in 3D, but other than that it was a fun movie.
When the movie was over we literally just walked around the downtown area and waited for it to be midnight. Lots of places were open, but we weren't really feeling the bars, so we just wandered. We had lots of Frenchies yell Bonne année to us and some even yelled Happy New Year even though they had no idea in passing that we were American. It was a fun evening, considering I had not had high hopes for my New Years.
So yeah, that's basically my winter break story.
My friend and I are planning a trip to GREECE for after our semester is over!!! I am so very excited about that. I will be spending 4 nights in Greece at the end of the month. After that, I will be flying home on February 2nd, which seems too close yet also too far.
I don't know how to feel about leaving France yet.
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