Hi From Mary!

Hey, every body! This is Mary Cumpston blogging!
So I got season three of my favorite show iCarly while in Demark. And speaking of Denmark- how cool is that place? Now I am going to tell you all the events that took place in the Scandinavian island of snow called ‘Denmark.’ Denmark was discovered in… I have no idea, but any way when we first got there, they lost our luggage! So dumb! I fell asleep on the hard airport floor while facing a nauseating stomach ache. When I woke up, the airport people had just announced that our luggage would arrive “eventually.’ And it’d better because my mom doesn’t want to pay for a lawyer but I would love to sue the idiots at that airport! More importantly, I’d like to push them down and jump up and down on their faces and then use a fork to finish them off! Okay, I’m kidding about the forks, but I am really mad!
Anyway, we met our friends, Alfred and Karl, at the front gate right outside the snow, and you won’t believe what I saw then…a Burger King! It’s a big deal for someone like me, living in Africa, cut off from fast food. Everyone’s idea of fast food in Zim is mealy meal with butter! So when we got to Alfred and Karl’s, we went online, then fell asleep. We had plenty of time (3 days) to settle into their house which was rather small but very cozy. We visited the mall where I got a mango smoothie and a stuffed bear named ‘Bomsha’ which is Danish for pimple. I thought it was Danish for teddy bear, because it’s the same word but with a different accent. Whatever.
On Christmas Eve, we still didn’t have a tree but we did have one suitcase – mine. But that suitcase did not have the Christmas stuff we needed, like our favorite Christmas books and some of the presents and also some other stuff very important to my Christmas. On Christmas Eve, we had a very Danish Christmas. We did all their traditions at their relative’s house. Their relatives have a sweet nine year old daughter named Kya. She didn’t speak much English, but she’s still so sweet! In our Danish Christmas, we first had some rice porridge and dug through it for an almond which was only in some of our bowls. The ones with almonds got prizes. I won these glitter stickers which I used to make heart designs on my iPod touch (which I got from Santa.) We also did the dancing around the Christmas tree tradition and stuff like that, but we didn’t get the right suitcase by Christmas Eve and my Christmas was spoiled. Right before bed, me and Bryce got into a fight then I got really upset that we didn’t have the suitcase so I just cried myself to sleep. I enjoyed the activities but it just wasn’t Christmas. And this was the first ever Christmas that I woke up and didn’t want to get out of bed! I was really happy about the iPod but I was disappointed that we didn’t even have a tree! We had to put the presents under a paper tree that I drew. I got some great presents – a Make Up Models book, a stuffed dog named Pan – so cute, a Littlest Pet Shop Antarctica thing, and the iCarly DS game! I also got some cute clothes- blue tights from Justice, a plain blue ruffled skirt, and a lime green T shirt with little diamonds and may I say that Selena Gomez wore that same shirt in her music video for the song ‘Magic.’ Really! I got some great stuff for Christmas, just not a Christmassy Christmas. However, I got to eat McDonalds four times and go ice skating in Denmark.
How was your Christmas? I’m going to go to the Internet Café now to load the newest episodes of iCarly that I downloaded. Please watch iCarly on Nickelodeon cuz it rocks!
Bye from Mary!