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Feliz Navidad! Merry Christmas, Nadolig Llawen! 🎄🎁🎅 (and happy new year!) I hope everyone has had a good Christmas day and is enjoying the Christmas break! This is the slightly delayed Christmas blog post to show what we got up to in Medellín over Christmas Eve and Christmas day.

After class on Christmas Eve it was decided that there would be a little Christmas dinner and games session on Thursday for Xmas Day as no classes though everyone had to bring something. People had all sort of different ideas of what to cook. Me? I decided to keep it simple stupid and do a tapas nibble selection – seemed a better idea than trying to cook something when we got 12 people sharing one cooker and oven. So out I went to go get my groceries and that was hell. Nearly 2 hours in line to pay up but once we were sorted and done could have a well earned rest.

Later that night the group go out partying but me I unfortunately had agoraphobia kicking in again so opted to go solo back to a taproom bar I was at when I arrived. It was okay but ended up getting charged extra for less which I got pretty mad about but talking to guys who were with me it was a huge misunderstanding but there was nothing they could do because how their system was set up. I turn in at about half 12 ready for Xmas Day.

Xmas Day I am up sort of late and have a phone call with my folks though the group chat says the vote is people dont want to eat Xmas dinner until half 6 in the evening quite late and people still had prep to do. Because of this I end up going out for a wander to some parks and eventually stumble across a place that was open. I sit down have a few Coronas and then head back at 5 once it’s time to prep my stuff.

My prep is done quickly though others still having issues cooking but it gets sorted and we all head to a big classroom lay out the food and booze and we get stuck into the buffet. It was very good and turned out well despite the long wait. After eating we played a few games and it was quite fun. As everyone had class the next morning it was mostly wrapped up by around half 10. Quite a chilled out thing really. 

That pretty much sums up my first Christmas away from home. Been strange but also quite fun.

Next blog will cover the weekends trips.