Merry Christmasssssssssss :)
Well that was the biggest New Year disguised as a Christmas I´ve ever experienced in my whole life...
First things first...we had a Christmas barbecue at 11.00 pm with the entire family on the 24th...
no turkey..
no chrismtas hats...
no crackers...
rubbish
We finished at about 11.50 and everyone was like...woahhhhhhhh...10 minutes to go........fill the glasses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i thought...fair play...they have a toast at midnight to welcome in christmas day...but oh no...there was not just a toast...
As the clock stroke midnight..i have never seen so many fireworks in my entire life...I was scared to death...i thought i was being shot...they were everywhere...and everyone had a huge toast...hugged and kissed everyone..cried...and sung...it was incredible!!!
then everyone started passing round presents..everyone had 1 each..and everyone opened them together...and then at about 1.30 am...everyone was like woah....what a lovely xmas that was..
i was extrememly confused. there´d only been 1 and a half hours of it. :S
but apparently in South America thats the way it rolls...xmas is like a new year celebration on the 24th...
We came home at about 2am...and the heavens had opened...the streets were like rivers..and everyone was sad because ur meant to go out to clubs and celebrate with your friends...but the parties were all outside and it was raining really hard...
but about 3.30am i got a phone call from one of my best friends here bruno..and he was like lise!! what u doing???!! i´m outside your house..lets go clubbing!!! You cant spend your first xmas in argentina in bed...lets goo!!
So i did!! I got ready and we went to Infierno..my favourite club..and we began to hit it hard. possibly harder than ever before. You know its guna be a hard night when you start dancing at 4am. at about 6 am other friends of ours arrived..and we partied hard...danced all night... like it was 1999
you know your in trouble when the sun comes up and your still dancing...and when the music stopped at 9 am and we were still dancing...i knew id partied hard.
We got home at about 9.30am...it was crazy...the sun is pretty strong at the moment..and i had strap marks from the top i´d gone out in from being in the sun. ive never in my entire life got a tan on a night out before...love it.
and then i made the worst decision of my life. It was about 10 am and i decided it was far too late to go to bed, so I just didnt.
RUBBISH IDEA
when you´re trying to have your first christmas away from home...being sleep deprived is a rubbish idea.
The 25th of December here is like a Sunday...people sleep in...do nothing...I just sunbathed with my family outside all day...was ace...but weird...
I spoke to the family on webcam which was really hard..especially because i hadnt been to bed yet..so i had a good cry when i saw them all...
but that made my Christmas...
infact 3 things did
3. The fact that everyone in my family here got 1 present each....and appreciated it way more than any of us do when we get loads. My brother got a pair of swim shorts and you would have thought he´d been bought an xbox..he ran round the house showing everyone... I guess I kind of realised that money isnt anything... infact its nothing..its who gives you the present and what it is... my family bought me a bikini because theyre taking me on holiday to the beach in January...and the tag said "To our beautiful new daughter... we´re so happy to have you with us in our house..you´re one of us now...hope you enjoy christmas with us and your holiday in January" and that meant a lot to me..
2. My best friend called me to wish me happy christmas.... I miss him a lot..and it was quite possible the best present ever...infact I instantly cried when i heard his voice...but bare in mind i was still extremely emotional as i still hadnt been to bed yet...
1. I had my first heart to heart with my dad...which at the age of 18 I guess is kind of sad...but at the same time was extremely cool...sometimes it takes something rubbish to make things better..and i´d made him angry..shock..and I´m kind of always nasty to him and I guess we don´t always see eye to eye... but we kind of worked out that we do both love each other very much...we just have rubbish ways of showing it...and our relationship thats pretty much based on jokes and banter and being horrible to each other kind of got too much...and for me... to admit that to each other..and to tell each other that we do love each other on web cam on xmas day a million miles apart was definitely the best present I could have had.
(I´m not guna lie..the bikini came a close 2nd...its really nice...but dad just won by a slight margin)
so anyway once again I´ve left a massive blog...
and they´re getting soppier and soppier.. :S
I hope you all had a wonderful christmas...
god knows what new year is going to be like here...
No doubt I´ll leave you another 5 hour blog to let you all know...
i miss you all...
but my first mile stone was xmas..so its all going to be down hill from here!!
I love you guys xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx