My year in the USA 2016/17: Week 19: Christmas

Hello guys,
this week was pretty awesome for me and a lot of things happened.
On Monday I had finals in my odd numbered classes which meant Language Arts III, American Government, Marketing and Show Choir(where we didn't had to write one). I did good in LA III and in Marketing with 100% in both but in Gov there were two parts and I got a D on the second part.. but with extra credit my total grade stayed an A. In the evening I went and watched the Basketball Varsity Girls and then Boys playing.
On Tuesday I had finals in all even numbered classes which meant American History, Spanish II and Anatomy & Physiology and I got 100% in all of them. So my GPA for this 1st Semester is a 4.0 (the best you can get) so I am super happy with it. This day was my last time in History and maybe also in A&P and we had Senior Candelighting instead of Homeroom. They do it because some people (6) already graduated this semester so it's the last get together of all Senior's 2017. First a group performed 2 songs with bells and then all Seniors that are in Choir (including me) went to the middle of the gym and sang Silent Night, while all the other Senior's were standing around us and lighting their candles. We choir people also had candles and we actually sang one verse of Silent Night in German! After it was over everybody took pictures and then my first semester at Lamar High School was officially over. I went home with Brynna, a friend of mine and Tara, the other German and after a while we went to Joplin for doing some Christmas shopping.
On Wednesday was the first day of Christmas break and I just stayed at home and read. Although it was a lazy day I really enjoyed it since it was pretty stressful with the finals.
On Thursday morning I volunteered at the Lamar Greenhouse & Florist for 3 hours and stayed at home the afternoon read and started a new series on Netflix.
On Friday we went to Joplin in the morning to get something done and afterwards we went to Arkansas for visiting a part of the family for Christmas. We stayed there the whole day and ate a lot (comparable to eating on Christmas in Germany!). After we came home at around 11 we went to Walmart for me so that I could buy Christmas gifts for the family. We came home around 1 am.
On Saturday we went to another part of the family and ate a lot as well. On the way back we went to Joplin and at 6 we went to church here in Lamar.
Today is the 25. so it's the day when they celebrate Christmas here in the US. In the morning I video called a part of my family in Germany and around noon all my hostparents children came over and we ate and exchanged gifts with each other. Over all I got awesome gifts. A shampoo set, a parfum set, a selfmade blanket, souvenirs from California, giftcards from Forever 21 and BurgerKing and the best of all from my hostparents. They got me a Kylie Jenner lipkit and a ticket for the Ariana Grande concert in Kansas City in May. When I got the ticket I actually started to cry because I was just so happy since I've never been to a concert.
It was an amazing Christmas for me this year but I also missed my family and friends.
I hope you all also had an amazing Christmas 2016 and I will put some pictures down there.

See you next year,
Isabel *-*