A little bit late but here it is, the blog about how Caravan spent Christmas this year. Okay guys, I have to make a warning in advance: this blog is basically just about food. This is easy to explain. Caravan means student-life, which means having cheap food. But Christmas means having really nice food, even for students. So we used this time as an excuse to not think about money anymore but just eating. And we had really nice food, in German we would say: “Dieses Jahr haben wir es uns so richtig gegeben.” So if you don’t want to become jealous do not continue reading:
After becoming fewer and fewer there were only 8 Caravanistas left in the apartment in the last week before Christmas. Although we had a lot to do with wrapping gifts, baking cookies and doing the Christmas-Concerts in the homes ( you can read about this in the other blogs), we started celebrating the Holy Feast on the 21st of December. In the evening , Caravan went out for an amazing team-meal to Sake Sushi Bar in Ashrafieh. Thanks to the EU, that this was possible! We had a lot of fun while having really good food together. The atmosphere was very relaxed. Afterwards we drove home, 8 people crammed in our s****y old Audi. This was the night in which Lucas left us and flew home for Christmas.
After we got over the fact that Lucas left us there were only seven people left in the house. Christmas Eve was moved to the 23rd, because I (anonymous) insisted on having Christmas as a family, just us together in the apartment. Finally we had no concerts, no gift wrapping, no cookie making and no schedule any more and we were FREE. We decorated our home really nice. It was very cosy with our plastic Christmas-tree, our crib in a post-carton and our tacky candles in the shape of Christmas-trees. The entire day, Maxi was standing in the kitchen to prepare the Chili con Carne. The result was great! After drinking a few glasses of wine some of us (Johanna and Matthieu) started to dance a waltz in the living room. But it was the night, when Daniel had to leave. So we had to say good bye again. Now only Amelie, Johanna, Caroline, Mafalda, Mattieu and Maxi were left.
On the 24th Valerie arrived. The day was very chilled. In the afternoon we all skyped with our families. Then we gathered in the dining room in front of our Christmas tree and sang “Holy Night” together. Those who got packages from the parents opened them and Valerie brought us all a little present (a red cup with each of our names written on it). We agreed beforehand to not give each other something, so nobody would have the stress to get presents for 5 other people. After reading the Reading and the Gospel together we walked down to Dr. Issa and had a great Christmas dinner together. We didn’t expect European food but something new. But for our all’s pleasure we got a huge turkey with stuffing and some amazing sides. Celebrating Christmas with Dr. Issa, his mother and sister and especially with Valerie was really nice. At twelve o’clock we went to the midnight Mass, which was unfortunately in French so not all of us were able to understand. Luckily we had read the Gospel and Reading beforehand. After coming back home we all fell into our beds completely satisfied by our first Christmas that we didn’t spend with our families but with Caravan.
But it was not over yet. On the 25th , the girls woke up quite early and prepared a great brunch. We had scrambled eggs, fruit salad, ham, cheese, Nutella and Speculoos etc. We were sitting for two hours at breakfast and enjoyed our luxurious brunch. I told you not to continue reading.
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