I woke up this morning
to a cold and gloomy day and remembered that its the 1st of December, which
meant it's officially acceptable to put Christmas decorations up and start
annoying people with Christmas songs *joyful clap!*. I can't believe it’s the
last month of this year and nearly 2015. As crazy as this sounds, I truly
believed that the world would end in 2012 so the that fact that we're 30 days away
from 2015 baffles me. When all the kids around the world got excited for this
glitzy season, I didn't even know it was such a bit festival because my family
never celebrated Christmas as its not a big part of Indian culture. Christmas
celebrations over 4 years in Australia weren’t really the same as its summer
down under. Last year was the first real Christmas I celebrated. I had a little
gathering, an actual Christmas tree, exchanged presents and the whole shabang.
I was extremely excited because it was a new experience and also because it
meant that from then on I was going to make sure I celebrated Christmas every year.
This year, since I live
in my own flat, I decided to buy my own Christmas tree. Ahhh! How exciting, my
very own Christmas tree! I invited a few friends over to help me set up and
decorate. I thought I'd share a few pictures and maybe get you excited for
Christmas too!
These are my mates
and I trying to figure out how to balance the tree
Once we eventually
figured it out, It was time to separate all the branches (fake of course
as I couldn't afford a real one on a student budget)
While we are all hard at
work decorating, my flat mate Jess sat and ate her pasta,
watching us struggle -
Miss. Evil
This is my flat
mate, Sadiyah loving decorating
I bought a snowflake bauble, which made me very happy!
I was trying to get a good picture of what the decorations looked like
from outside but of course Jess had to finish her pasta right that second and block the tree
I do love her though so it’s okay
This is what the room looks like when we walk in to hang out or
make food. I love the way it turned out and can't wait for the rest of the holiday season and of course Christmas
day!
I hope you have a lovely festive month
Love,
Sanjana
