I just realized that my last post was just after Thanksgiving.  I am getting bad at this again…

Here are some highlights of my “Christmas Season” this year in Beijing:

1.  We had our yearly Christmas party with hundreds of Chinese friends.  It was enjoyable once again.

2.  The homeschool had it’s first ever Christmas party. 🙂  Each teacher was supposed to think of something to “perform” for our subject area.  As the math teacher at the homeschool my math class performed “The 12 days of Christmas” and had the audience count the total number of gifts received.  (First person to respond – in the form of a comment – with the correct answer will receive 10 points!)

3.  I spent a LOT of time working on my white elephant gift for our annual FOC gift exchange.  We do both a white elephant gift exchange and a secret santa gift exchange.  My white elephant gift was something that I had been planning since the summer time.  Last year’s white elephant was the FOC Beijing version of “Guess Who”.  This year I wanted to do better so I made the FOC Beijing version of Clue.  It was a hit with the group.  I’ll put photos at the bottom.

4.  I’ve spent much of my time teaching (both school and B studies)  I’m still enjoying my classes this year, especially our homeschool boys.  As crazy as they are, they grow on you…

5.  I bought a plane ticket to Thailand!  🙂

6.  I practiced a little bit more with photography.  I hope you enjoy the sample photos I’m including.

7.  Did I mention that I’m going to Thailand?

These are some of the miniatures I created for the Beijing version of Clue. The weapons were chopsticks, a wok, a cleaver, a bike chain, Micah's guitar string, and Teri's cat. I changed the room names too. 🙂 And the suspects 🙂

I also changed the photos of the characters on the front of the box. 🙂

This is what the whole front of the box looked like. 🙂 They didn't even know! hehehe...

Well, I’ll be back in a few weeks.  I’m flying into Bangkok tomorrow afternoon.  I’ll update when I come back. 🙂