Chocolate Box Girls: Sweet Honey
“I guess there is a first time for everything.
We break up from school, and I try to get into the Aussie Christmas spirit. I drape fairy lights along the patio and hang up cards with surfing Santas, cards with sleighs drawn by kangaroos, cards with koalas wearing reindeer antlers. It’s kind of surreal. I surprise Emma by teaching her how to bake mince pies and Christmas cake; we have a laugh, but the rich fruit-and-brandy aroma as the cake cooks makes me suddenly, painfully, homesick.
An... airmail package addressed to me arrives from home, tied up with string and covered in Christmas stickers; I slice open the box and take out the presents inside, carefully wrapped in white tissue paper with red ric-rac bows. I read the gift-tag messages from my sisters, telling me not to open anything until my Skype call home on Christmas Day, and my throat aches suddenly, as if I’ve swallowed a shard of glass.
The day before Christmas Eve Bennie has a sleepover and we watch cheesy festive DVDs and exchange presents, promising not to open them until Christmas Day; we talk about our plans to hang out at the beach and meet cool boys.MoreLess
We break up from school, and I try to get into the Aussie Christmas spirit. I drape fairy lights along the patio and hang up cards with surfing Santas, cards with sleighs drawn by kangaroos, cards with koalas wearing reindeer antlers. It’s kind of surreal. I surprise Emma by teaching her how to bake mince pies and Christmas cake; we have a laugh, but the rich fruit-and-brandy aroma as the cake cooks makes me suddenly, painfully, homesick.
An... airmail package addressed to me arrives from home, tied up with string and covered in Christmas stickers; I slice open the box and take out the presents inside, carefully wrapped in white tissue paper with red ric-rac bows. I read the gift-tag messages from my sisters, telling me not to open anything until my Skype call home on Christmas Day, and my throat aches suddenly, as if I’ve swallowed a shard of glass.
The day before Christmas Eve Bennie has a sleepover and we watch cheesy festive DVDs and exchange presents, promising not to open them until Christmas Day; we talk about our plans to hang out at the beach and meet cool boys.MoreLess
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