Christmas in school days

For those wondering about the title - I did my schooling in St.MontFort Boarding High school. So for every Christmas we get holidays to go home and celebrate festival at home. For few of those holidays I went to friends' home instead of mine and celebrated Christmas with their families. Even though it sound very simple to go to some friends' home instead of your home in holidays - its not. At that age itself we used to plan it meticulously much in advance. It all starts with letting parents know that I found a friend who studies better than me(better than me is important here) so they feel good about it. Then the next step is to slowly making them aware that we are studying together and doing home work together. Then it goes on complaining that we were given so much home work for holidays and only working together can help us finish home work in time. So using all these we can get a ticket to go to friends' place. Once we are there I always used to get good treatment as I am the guest and most of the time youngest as I am the youngest in my class. In fact I was one of the elves in a show. So I saw Santa Clause talking in Telugu and kids wondering why Santa is giving only candies even though he is famous for gifts. There were lot of decorations we do to create the hut, Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. After all this - I used to go to my home for some days before returning to school - with all my home work intact. My books still unopened from the suitcase and me with lot of excuses.