Holiday Times

Alright so Christmas was a different experience;

First the 24th was a very family oriented day during which we ate a whole ton of various foods. I rather enjoy the food here now, but occasionally we still have something that I simply don't care for in the slightest. We finished eating at around 11 o'clock i would say, and then we took part in a fiesta. We arrived back home in the morning at an outstanding and slightly ridiculous time of 8:25. This is a typical holiday night for a Spanish teen. On normal nights this is not the case, but during some holidays the tradition is to partake in various fiesta activities until dawns early light. The next morning was slightly less enjoyable as we left for Malaga a bit too early. We enjoyed some more food at an aunts house and I met a lot of the new "family". They are extremely nice people and are a really close family. This was good, but really tough cause it made me miss all my family more. Carly I love you, get well soon.
Then on the 29th I believe, we all went to Sevilla to meet even more family! Also of course to eat a bunch more food! Always eating food, always. I have decided that Americans don't eat more, we just eat a lot less healthy than Spaniards. Here they eat a tremendous amount of food, but they eat healthy and more fresh food. I was able to go to the cathedral in Sevilla, and it is beautiful. It is even bigger than the one in Malaga and has a great history (i want to say its the third largest in Europe, but i don't know). I am simply amazed with the architecture that these buildings have.
New Years was another great experience.This was another extremely family time, with a very nice dinner and spending time together. Then one cool thing that they do here is while the countdown to the new year is happening, they eat grapes. One for every month, twelve grapes in very few seconds while the ball of Madrid is dropping. After this we went to a fiesta again; this one didn't begin until 1 o'clock in the morning!