Christmas is coming!

So we finally started putting up Christmas decorations which was very exciting because I LOVE Christmas :) We put Christmas music on and started decorating. My host brother totally gets into decorating for holidays—it’s really cute. He spent so much time making a Christmas tree out of lights for the front window.

Then he had me dust off the Christmas ornaments and sort them into different sizes for him to put them on the tree—gosh I thought I was super organized! He did a great job with the ornaments and then started putting on the lights, to which I told him you are always supposed to put the lights on first, but he said then the ornaments hide the lights. Who is to win this fight? He let me help with the lights and I’d say our combined work made the tree look beautiful.

Yesterday I borrowed movies from Steve (my sitemate who is a small business PCV) because I had been wanting to watch a movie and my host brother and I couldn’t find any. So, I bought ice cream and we watched a movie with the sparkle of the Christmas tree in behind us. It was so wonderful. Did I say I love Christmas? :)

Today I decided I was going to reorganize some things in my room, which also meant moving out some things that the family had left in my room. My host bro said it would be ok—I did ask first! So, I rearranged things and I feel so much better, not so crammed. As my parents know, I love to rearrange things and organize. It just makes me feel better about the space I’m living in, and if I’m gonna be here for 2 years, I might as well feel comfortable. Speaking of living here for 2 years, I had lunch at home the other day with an aunt, my host sis, and host mom. I’m not sure how we got onto this topic, but the aunt started teasing that I was going to marry Jasser, because apparently there was a rumor going around that we were married. Then, my host mom pretty much said that she wanted me to stay there (even after the 2 years) and marry Jasser. This is not the first time she’s mentioned this. Usually it’s kind of awkward, but this time it was fuinny with the aunt. She started saying that Jasser is too small for me (he’s a little shorter than me and pretty flaco—thin). They were joking around and I was laughing and then they asked me, what I think. I said (in Spanish), “I need a big man for security”. The aunt was laughing hysterically and then they all started saying poor Jasser. I think I cleared up the “marrying Jasser” situation though.

For now the Christmas decorating continues as Jasser sets up a full nativity display including Bethlehem. It should be interesting—he always works so hard on these things.

This is the beginning of what I'm sure will be quite a display!