Buon Natale e un felice anno nuovo! Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! Things have been crazy here. At school my counselor and I have been talking about what to do for graduation. I have 24 credits from freshmen and sophomore year and I need 26 to graduate. So I'll have enough credits to graduate this year but I would be missing one required class, english 4. It was decided I would drop my newspaper class and take english 4 online during that period. That way I'll graduate this June! I'm nervous to get it all done and graduate at sixteen but I'm soo excited to go to Italy. Please donate in lieu of graduation money. Grazie!

Fundraising has been going well so far. I've applied for three jobs at Pizza hut, IHOP, and Chick Fil' A. I'm pet sitting for a family friend and have sold a few things on craigslist. I'm also working on setting up a Kickstarter, so make sure to check back for that.

Christmas was wonderful. We went to Christmas eve mass with our friend Grace and then ate IHOP at 2 am. On Christmas day mom dragged us out of bed at 9am (the horror!) and had us open presents. Then we went to see The Book Theif, which is one of my favorite books. It was amazing!! I sincerely suggest everyone go and see it but definitely bring the kleenex, it's a tear jerker. Merry Christmas and I hope everyone has a happy new year!Arrivederci!
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My christmas loot. Thanks everyone!