Sorry for the poor Italian in the title - there isn't an Italian word for Secret Santa (or Santas in my case) so I had to make one up!

I arrived home from university today and was greeted by a packages from my secret Santas, Alex and Holly.

Inside was a card, 3 wrapped presents and a cactus - and a lot of soil from the cactus pot! Said cactus has a Christmas hat, beard, nose and googly eyes. I have since named the cactus Tomasso.

The first gift contained an Italian phrase book - Italian for Dummies. I'm learning Italian as part of my degree and hope to visit Italy soon :D

The second present was a USB stick with a mysterious message stuck on the front saying this film was hard to get in the UK... When I plugged it into my laptop a film called 'The Linguists' started playing about two linguists who document languages that are going extinct. Cool!

The final, big, gift was a book called 'Star Wars Origami'! I'm not a Star Wars fan but this is one cool book :)

Grazie mille, guys - this was an awesome thing to get at the end of a 6 hour journey home :D