Italian Club Christmas!

So although I spent Christmas in the States (well 9pm on the 25th-new years) I was missing all of the Christmas cheer beforehand. Luckily, I go to Italian club every sunday in the bottom of a Christian school (it is a lot cooler than that sounds). I go every sunday to meet with Italian people, Koreans who speak Italians, and people who just like Italian food. We eat delicious food and talk and sometimes afterward we even go for drinks and dinner (much later haha). Well, anyways early in December I came to the club and found a blank Christmas tree and boxes of decorations and I got to decorate a tree!

Here is a picture of the Priest who is in charge of Club Italia! He was putting the decorated tree on a table to be more visible.

Here is me with my Aperitivo (pre dinner drink) in front of the beautiful tree and blow up Santa!
This is a picture of Stella (my Korean friend who speaks Italian) and Jacky (My German friend who speaks Italian)

I got a little frisky with the blow up Santa.
2 weeks later was Christmas dinner at Club Italia. It was an elaborate meal with too much food and too many people! This was my table. Most of them are Italian and we had a wonderful meal chattering and stuffing ourselves.
This was the room. Usually there are around 30 people on an average sunday for lunch, but Christmas dinner was on a Saturday evening and it was PACKED.
This is Vincenzo! The priest is in charge of the club, but Vincenzo is in charge of all of the food! Here he is at the bar! He has lived in Korea for 40 years teaching Italian at a University.
The Italian Embassy provided gifts for all of the Italian kids that RSVPed to come. They got awesome toys and 2 teenage girls got gift bags packed with The Faceshop merchandise! I wanted Santa to bring me something! : (
This was my Korea Christmas! Fun fact: Christmas is a couples holiday in Korea. Boys hate Christmas if they don't have girl friends. Christmas dates are like Valentine's day dates! I thought that was really funny, but I guess it just doesn't hold the same significance as their traditional holidays. Almost all Koreans are Christians (SO many Megachurchs!)

Well Christmas at home was fantastic! and I am back in Korea and life is good!