Oh, you get a lot more than that. On the twelfth day, you get 78 presents, and over the whole 12 days you get a total of 364 gifts.

if I even thought I had a chance of being on that show, I would make damned sure I knew how to swim and drive stick, because you ARE going to be asked to do those two things. As for eating gross local delicacies (or massive quantities of genuine local delicacies) and having to throw yourself off a great height, not…

The night is freezing fast,
    To-morrow comes December;
        And winterfalls of old
Are with me from the past;
    And chiefly I remember
        How Dick would hate the cold.
 
Fall, winter, fall; for he,
    Prompt hand and headpiece clever,
        Has woven a winter robe,
And made of earth and sea
    His overcoat for…