Family Dinner - Merry Christmas

Apart from having holiday, I had a very busy week! Lots of Christmas and for me it's nice to not have christmas for a year again.
On Saturday the grandparents, cousins, aunt and uncle came to our house, like every year. It was really nice; meeting up with the whole family again, cooking dinner together and just sitting and talking for a whole evening :)
Unfortunately there was no snow but I can live with that. Actually it was for our own good because the other day we walked with some other friends into the forest and made Fondue, the traditional Swiss cheese dish, over a campfire! And nobody wasn't happy that it was not extremely cold and snowy..
But Christmas here is so much different than celebrating it in the UK.. For example most British people already start putting up their Christmas tree before December or even earlier and they start preparing and getting presents months before the actual event. And when I was in England celebrating Christmas with my family there we already went to eat Christmas dinner just in the beginning of December which was a bit unusual for me. Here we just celebrate Christmas on the day. Another thing is the decorations. At my family in the UK the whole house was literally full of decorations and you could not walk anywhere without seeing something shimmering and blinking in various colours. We keep it quite simple here. Just a few candles and the tree decorated with not too much stuff. And the food also differs. Back in England you eat turkey or salmon (well you can get something else but it's quite unusual if you do). We always make something way different every year. I don't know if that is common but I really like the way eat on Christmas. This year for example we made a plate as a starter with lots of fruit, smoked salmon, trout, tomatoes, a bit of salad, sauces, and so on. And after that we had some meat with a mushroom sauce with Spätzle and beans. So quite the opposite of a traditional Christmas dinner.. :)

On Monday I will be going to Norway until the end of the holidays. Which means for one week. I am probably going to post every day so stay tuned ;))

Merry Christmas again and have a nice start of the New Year!!
Marin

Holiday Start with "The Force Awakens" (spoiler-free), a Volley-Night and a new Synth!

Since Christmas is just around the corner we've had our last exams last week and now have holiday. Yesterday we've had a volleyball night where teams that students could form played against each others. And this year I was in one too! We dressed up as the seven dwarfs and one of our team was put into a dress with a crown! It was really a lot of fun even if we did not win at all...

This year the school had bought a new synthesiser for the "better" band room with the advanced equipment. And since I am really the only one using it I got the permission to borrow it over the Christmas holidays and to take it home to examine it, fix a few things and to get to know how to use it properly which is really kind of the school.

But just today I went with my school friends to see the new Star Wars movie and I need to admit that it is just amazing! Recently I have only seen really crappy new movies in the cinema and I hoped that this one would be a bit better because I really liked the old Star Wars movies. And I was not disappointed at all! They have brought a lot of new stuff into the movie like the new droids or protagonists but the filmmakers have also implemented the old characters really well and have not just thrown them in randomly. And of course there are a lot of improvements in the camera techniques and the computer generated imagery aka the whole film just looks an awful lot better than the old ones..
I would really recommend you to see it if you like the old ones (or if you even don't)..

Tomorrow we will have a Christmas party with our family at our place which will be amazing and I am going to tell you more next weekend. But I wish you all a lovely holiday!