Vores Secret Santa (Our Secret Santa)

I think it was in my last post that I said that we were all doing a Secret Santa. So on Sunday (the Second Advent, apparently this was significant) we all came down to the kitchen with our presents and put them under the tree.

Aww, like a real family.

Maud and Victor were already manning the crepe-making and all of us had brought down different condiments to put on them; nutella, jam etc. Sophia had also made a cake and Solene had made cookies.

We then turned on some Christmas music and had regular wine and hot wine while we ate our crepes. It actually felt so much like Christmas. Although I'm excited to come home, I kind of wish I had all these people coming with me.

Anyway, before we started opening gifts, the boys made Max bring his keyboard into the kitchen and play Christmas songs. It was kind of funny at first because Max was taking it very seriously. Plus all the Germans were singing the Christmas songs and "Oh Christmas Tree" sounds hilarious in German. As a side-note, the Germans seem to think that songs like "Oh Christmas Tree" and "Little Drummer Boy" are exclusively German. I had to explain to them that the songs exist in English too.

Finally we got around to presents. I had to insist that we open each one-at-a-time because everyone was set on opening them all at once. But we had to see what everyone got each other!

Some of the most notable gifts were,

Maud to Hadrien (who just got an internship in South Africa): a "South Africa survival kit"- treats, a tie, a condom and a "little bit of company..."

ie. a unicorn

Max to Irina: Silicone (like for building houses) for her 'small boobs'. Apparently she'd joked about it to Michi and Michi had told Max to buy it for her.

Michi to Jo: A massive block of clay, for when he gets mad so he can punch it. If you haven't gathered already from my past posts, Jo has a temper.

Irina to Maud: Some Christmas candy and a toy princess set.

Henceforth dubbed "Princess Maud of France/The World"

Nils to Max: A construction sign and some candy. 

Yeah, I don't even know.

Birte to Michi: Beyblades. Apparently those were never a fad over in Europe, so I had to explain what the big deal was and how to use them.

As for me, I got Birte, so I bought her some earrings and some Ferrero Rocher chocolates. And it turns out Simon got me. Apparently I'm very hard to buy for, so he got me this cute little stuffed gnome, candy and some of those green and red reindeer antlers.

All-in-all, pretty great night. It was good to everyone together again, since that's barely happened since Flensburg. 

PS. Bought my train ticket to Copenhagen to get home today. Leaving is getting real. Ugh.