Holidaze

Jay's birthday is coming up and so we spent the celebration with our twig group. Jay, Judy and Mac were all having a birthdays this month. We went to the best Pizza place in Jinan to celebrate. It is an Italian restaurant called Lydia's. The medium size pizza cost $2.50, they don't have any other size. Pizza Hut cost around $12. The tuna salad cost $ 1. The cake cost $1.40. We sure are going to miss food prices when we get back to USA. We had a fun time together. The Birthday candles are really great. I was in charge of pictures.


Well Dad is back to baking. He loved doing it as a child, as a father and now as a person who has a lot of free time here in China. He has been making cookies.

This is a picture of our really darling red kitchen. I got the idea of a read kitchen from Tricia. The counter space by the window was one of my inventions. It is really nice for making homemade bread.

The bread hear is something to be desired, but I have started to like it. It is cheap and Skippy peanut butter taste really quite good on it. We found some Nestle powder milk, and it is also quite good.

It amazes me how one learns to enjoy so many things.

We have put up Christmas directions. This little tree is one we found in apt. last year.

When my students come to English corner on Sunday night they always walk into the apt. and say, "Oh how beautiful." This is a picture of an English corner. I have 27 students come every week.
It has been a special evening. Actually they come and are taught about what they will do the next week in class and have the students in the group prepared for what they are going to learn.
We just finished putting on skits this week. Some of them were really quite good. This next week they will come and watch DVD of the skits and pick the 10 who will be preforming in the Christmas program in a week.