This year the Christmas Spirit hit me exactly on Thanksgiving day. I turned on my Christmas CD by Point of Grace. I love it!! And boom.. it was Christmas Spirit. I had the complete desire to watch ELF and A Christmas Story. I wanted to decorate my apartment and make it all Christmasfied.
Well, tonight was decorating night. We went down to Tesco and got a few ornaments and lights for the tree.. and come back and I decorated. Turned on the Christmas music and jammed out while placing the ornaments around the tree that was left in my apartment from last year. It's really cute. It's silver and red. I have my ornament my Bibi sent with me.. it's hanging and i even put 10 yuan in it for Christmas day. I have a framed picture of my sister and myself under the tree for now. I am going to buy some socks and a pair of new glasses and wrap them up for myself probably. I will also put my last Dr Pepper under the tree too. I don't mind not having gifts under it, but at least Christmas morning will be nice like that. I'll probably actually cook myself some breakfast too.. and listen to Christmas music. Then read or something the rest of the day.
Tonight on the bus I saw funny things. I was quite aware of my surroundings and saw this.. a kid get really excited about using his mom's bus card. A mom carrying her 10 year old daughter.. ??? a car stopped on the road with his bumper sticking out the trunk.. a ghetto Chinese boy.. 3 men cracking up about Bekah???.. just pointing and laughing.. Beautiful Christmas lights at the Marriot.. a woman ride her bike almost into the side of the bus.. only to know the person in the seat behind me and start waving at him... a chinese boyfriend have to tell his girlfriend which handle she should hang on to.. really??? just grab the handle in front of you. I think that was about it for now anyways.
It's really cold here today and I"m regretting not bringing my pea coat. I do love my Columbia jacket with zip in fleece.. and my hoody. Staples this winter I'm sure. I'm really looking forward to Thailand and Cambodia and Vietnam.. at least the first 2.
This week's class was amazing! Everyone was really interested in talking about Education Systems all over the World. We talked about why Chinese are so intelligent.. and why Americans are so open minded. It was wonderful. I also told my pick pocket story. I quite enjoy telling stories... hmm. They told me it was OK to punch a man if he stole from me again.
Last night I cooked Spaghetti for one of my friends/students Catherine. It was her birthday. I also made Chocolate cake. She was really excited to have a small dinner with us. She and her friends have been fighting and her family. It was good for her to just be around us and hang out. She seemed to be grateful for the escape and the american food. Noodles are a tradition on your birthday here.. so you will have a long life or something. So that was culturally correct. I had forgotten about that tradition till she mentioned she had them for lunch too.. Chinese noodles of course. Anyways.. it's nice to start making friends a little more. It's just so hard this year..
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