January 10, 2013
Annariina's winter holiday web post
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The winter holidays went by so fast! It feels a bit like I didn't have holiday at all.
The New Years was an interesting and fun experience. I went to my host family's grandmother's place with them and we stayed there for four days. When we arrived on the 31st we met my host siblings cousins and went to eat sushi with them, after that we just relaxed and watched TV together (o^^o). We watched that red and white show ("kohaku uta gassen"), which I had heard about, and it was so nice when there were even some artists and bands that I knew and liked performing!
Close to midnight I went to a shrine with my host mom, just to look around because it was so crowded. It definitely was a different New Year celebration for me, no fireworks or party – more like a nice day with relatives.
On the 1st we went to a long car ride, just driving close to the sea and such. On the 2nd I met even more my host family's relatives! I have no idea who all of them were or how they were related, but they were all so nice. We all went to the same shrine that I visited with my host mom earlier, and lined up to toss the coin and pray (^人^).
The last day we went to karaoke with just my host family and their grandmother. It was fabulous, I've missed karaoke so much and it was actually so much fun to sing songs with my host family (ノ^O^)ノ～♪
It was an awesome trip and I really enjoyed so much, but also got bit tired. It was very nice to get home and crawl under my blankets and eat chocolate :*:・(￣∀￣)・:*: