"Jingle Bells, Christmas Smells, Good at Ana's House..."

So, Ana's family. Mum and Dad are Nadine and Robert, then there's Morvan, 31, his wife Claire, and their little boy Mazen, 1 and a few months old. Next comes Gaela, 26, and finally Ana, the baby ( well, not any more thanks to Mazen) of the family at 21. They have all been so kind to me, I even got a few christmas presents, which I was not expecting! Ana gave me a necklace with a replaceable dreamstone, Morvan and Claire gave me a cute wooden bracelet from Brazil (they bought it in Europe), and Nadine and Robert gave me some perfume. Thankyou!!
I can see why Ana fitted in so well with my family. We have played a board game pretty much every night after dinner... We've played some pretty interesting stuff actually. I have had a few issues with the language (although my french is slowly returning!) but my biggest issue was different thought processes...especially when we played a game where you have to represent movie titles with random object like a peg and a ballooon.

Christmas was fun. We went to a catholic service on Christmas eve before having the main christmas meal, lasting until 2am including a break for unwrapping presents/digesting. I called my family after this, it was great to hear their voices. Ana had a chat to them too. Then I went to bed. Cristmas day we got up late, went for a walk in a park, ate christmas cake (it was close enough) and had dinner. Soooo much food! It was sooo good! I loved the Foie Gras.

The christmas decorations were awesome too. There were these little houses that light up from the inside; soo cute! Also stickers on all the windows...and these little men made of wood, hollowed out, with space for some incense inside. They had pipes so when you lit the incense it looked like they were smoking. Cool!

The house is great too, a wooden staircase with landing that overlooks part of the lowzer floor, nice wooden decor, they've got several potplants, large ones, so it all feels very natureish. I like it!

Ok. I'm tired so that's all for now. I'll write more tomorrow about my trip to Rennes to visit my host family from five years ago.
Byee!