#1. 5th Grade Class
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| #1 Thanksgiving |
On Wednesday I celebrated Thanksgiving with my class by teaching them how to make crescent rolls, playing pin the hat on the turkey (very traditional, I know), and eating a surprisingly healthy meal. These kids brought tons of fruit and veggies- so in essence, it didn't really taste (or feel afterwards) like a true Thanksgiving meal.
#2 The Real Deal
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| 2nd Thanksgiving |
On Thanksgiving day we celebrated with fellow teachers at Stacy's house. It was a rainy day, and it felt all the more comfortable to stay inside. Half the day was spent (for me) making stuffing, crescent rolls, and berry pie. It was a great feast! The highlight for me was special K loaf, a rarity over here. The evening was followed up with a blanket fort.
#3 The Real Deal with turkey
We were invited by Ashley and Oliver, a couple who work for one of the English camps, to visit their camp and spend Thanksgiving with them. The camp, which is located in Kuolai, is quite a ways outside of Taipei in the mountains. Since it's quite removed from Taipei, it's beautiful there. We spent the Sabbath together by gobbling down Thanksgiving food once again, having a more laid-back sermon and discussion time, and skipping rocks along the river. These rocks were made soley to skip along the water, and it was the best rock skipping I've ever seen.
#4 I think I'm getting tired of stuffing
On Sunday my principal and his wife had another Thanksgiving meal at their house. Yes, by this time I was getting a little tired of stuffing my face. It was good, but it also marked the end of our vacation and so the blanket fort had to come down. It was a good run.
Since then we've been quite busy planning our Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia trip, coaching basketball games (that was Zach), dealing with troublesome students, and planning-school, church stuff, etc.. You name it, we've been planning it, or so it feels at least.
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| An evening of decorating cookies with the Webbs & Burketts |
Knowing our lives would only get super busy, we spent an evening a week or so before Thanksgiving decorating cookies with the Webbs and the Burketts. We've really enjoyed becoming friends with Ashley and Oliver as well as other people at the English camps.
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| Cookies that Zach & I just made for the staff at both our schools. |
