Happy New Year!
December has been a chilling 66 degrees, so we put on our scarfs and jackets! Everyone looks like they are ready for a blizzard! It has been a month of many changes. Christmas was pretty sad because not many people celebrate it or have a good idea of what it is. We made it through the holidays and hopefully things warm up in the next few weeks.
First time to go to the local market alone. It is a little hole in the wall place and no foreigners go there. I was a big shock to many of the woman selling food there. They would point and stare. Some of the more brave ones said "Hello!" And when I answered they would hide their faces and giggle. The women here are so cute! I try to go every week now and mime my way through buying fruit and vegetables. I do know my numbers though!
We had a Christmas cookie decorating party with our students. Unfortunately, they didn't understand the point of decorating the cookies for fun. They thought they had to eat every cookie they decorated!! We had so many undecorated cookies left at the end.
Some funny stories:
I have become a professional mime with my kids classes. So much so that my students now speak to me in mime. One of my students: "Teacher, who? White..." makes beard, big belly and hat motion. "Oh," I say, "Santa! Ho ho ho." Then my whole class started to say ho ho ho.