New Year's Eve Parties and My Favorite Book Of The Year

Hello, humans. 

Yesterday, I went to a New Year's Eve party with my paternal family. Dancing salsa and merengue was very fun. There was also a karaoke session, but of course I didn't participate. The food, courtesy of my uncle (and other people, but I don't know whom), was delicious. My sister baked two cakes (she's a great baker), a carrot and a chocolate (with a bit of orange) one. I had some of that chocolate cake and it was great too. We tuned in to Radio Reloj for the countdown, like we do every year. It's really weird because after the countdown finishes they play the Costa Rican National Anthem, so that's the first song I hear every year. After that it's usually reggaeton, so at least that's not the first thing I hear.

I had to write a lot of Happy New Year  messages for my friends, so I spent a good portion of the party writing them. Having to pour your heart out for a message is very weird after you've repressed your emotions all year haha. I was able to do it without dying, luckily, and I received a good reaction overall. Most of my best friends low-key ignored a post I wrote them on our Facebook group, but that's okay because I know they're not the most expressive people in the world, just like me. Really, you could write me a book about how much you love me, bring the Moon down to Earth for me, name a planet with intelligent extraterrestial life 37839 light years away after me, whatever, and I'd still be like oh cool thx ily. It's just the way we are.

After midnight I went to another party with my maternal family and spent some time with my cousins and her friends. We didn't spend that much time there because it was kind of late, but it was okay.

New Year's Eve was nice. Fortunately, I didn't feel bad. I was able to keep my cool, and that's a great improvement for me. I'm getting better.

I hope you had a good New Year's Eve and New Year's too. What did you do? How did you feel? Tell me in the comments if you want to.

In other news, my favorite book of 2016 iwas A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. This book follows the story of two Afghan women, Mariam and Laila, over a period of almost 45 years. It's really well told and written. Both protagonists come from very different backgrounds, but end up in the same hideous situation, which is very interesting. It's also very realistic and unexpected. I even thought it was a true story because many horrible things happened. 

What was your favorite book of 2016? Tell me that in the comments too haha. 

Love,

Nan.