Christmas: friends
It's December 24th, Christmas Eve. At this time of the year, I would normally be enjoying a family Christmas dinner, playing boardgames and listening to carols. But not this year. Instead of a lavish meal, piles of presents, wrappers, and ribbons lay in front of me. One day in early November, our school announced that all students were to remain in school--a boarding school--from the end of final exams until winter vacation in January 3rd. The news that I would be locked up for the Holidays struck me like the first blast of winter. Just how naughty had I been? What was a Christmas without decorations, caroling, and family parties, anyway? The prospect of the long-awaited Christmas was as frosty and monotonous as the isolated Sosa mountains our school sat in. The day after the announcement, I set myself a plan to revive Christmas spirit: giving presents to twenty friends. Suddenly, this Christmas looked like it was going to be much more fun than last year's. But the