Christmas, in Belgium is more or less the same as in the US, but with some slight differences. In the Us, most families open presents in the morning on christmas day. It's a little but different here. Everyone opens up the presents christmas eve. So as a family, we spent a coupe hours opening presents. We would go around in a circle and each person would pick a present and give it to someone else.
And everyone stays up until midnight. When the clock strikes 12:00 the champagne is opened and most people go out to "faire des fêtes" = to party. My family however just drank some champagne and went to bed. However for the next few hours i got text messages and phone calls from friends and family (host family).
The next day we went to my grandparents house (parents of my host mom). She is one of nine kids, so as you can imagine has a fairly large family. A lot like my family actually, so it didn't faze me too much, it was just hard to remember who everyone was. However, there is another exchange student n one of my "cousins" houses. And she and i are good friends so luckily we got to spend time with each other. The family is really nice so it was good.
The next weekend, we had another christmas diner with my host dad's family. He has a much smaller family so it wasn't as overwhelming. Just very long. We had raclette for dinner which is really hard to explain but i'll do my best. You have a grill type thing, and you can put al types f meat on it. And then under the grill you have little trays that you put cheese onto. The cheese melts and then you put everything onto your plate and eat it with whatever you want. Meat, potatoes, pickles.. And you can even make small omletes with it.
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