Merry Christmas

We didn't have time to send out Christmas cards or make one... so hopefully these pictures will fill the void of our absence this Christmas :(

I made these costumes for my classes performance and thought we would try to squeeze into them... Just a little holiday cheer :)

 

Christmas Party at School!

... will have to wait until I come back from Christmas vacation!

So... maybe it was a little longer... sorry! Brian and I both got sick after vaca and I'm only now getting back to the ole' blog.

Christmas at school was soooo cute. All the dances and costumes were so great! I have to admit our school does put alot into their shows. Looks good for potential customers and the parents after all... but still...

Calm before the storm :)

Stage

Angels

Cuties!

Beautiful

Love the stockings!

Rocking around the Teacher Michael Christmas tree.

Brother and sister :)

I was soo nervous for my students to go on, but they did great! They forgot to turn around for the beginning so I had to rush on stage to turn them around. They all had that deer in headlights look... all those people starring at them on stage... takes a while to get used too :) We practiced for a good month on the dance steps. It took me about a week to construct the costumes... some of the parents even took them home... but the ones that didn't, Brian and I used for our faux Christmas cards :)

My lil' Turkish delights - sisters Elif and Zeynep as presents

Two Christmas Trees - Mark and Daniel

Toby and Jeremy as presents!

Some of my girls...

My Class before the performance

Brian's class performance was awesome! He only has 3 girls in his class and the rest are all boys. His Thai teacher came up with a great idea for that! Brian was hired as a photographer by the school for this event so he got a lot of great photos.

Brian's girls working it!

Brian's friend Tom from back home was in town and he stopped by to watch and take in the Thai school system. Teacher Emily's family was in town and came to the event as well. The were in awe of how old the dad's were there haha... I guess we are kinda immune to it now, but thinking back to May - it is a bit jaw dropping :)

Not PC, I understand... but sooo cute and entertaining!

The girls shoot the boys :)

After clean-up we got to leave earlier. No Christmas party for us like the party they had after sports day. It was good though... Brian had to finish last minute videos for his side hustle and then we had to pack for vaca!!!!

Move over justin bieber :)

So behind on the blog... (it's really difficult to try to persuade Brian to fork over the pictures!)... so until I catch up enjoy the beautiful sounds of a 13 year old middle America boy wonder.

King's Birthday

or Father's Day....

It really wasn't that big considering what a production we did for Mother's day.

The children didn't put on any shows or get dressed up. Instead, they came to school bearing baskets full of food. It's tradition in Thailand on behalf of the King that everyone give food to the temples and monks. It was a nice experience. A bunch of monks came to school and collected all the items from the children. Brian got to take part in the ceremony because he's a boy and can accidentally touch monks unlike the diseased women of the world... haha... jk... but it is the monk's code not to have any physical contact with women.


I think the pictures will describe the day better. It lasted a while, but not long enough to get us through to lunch... sigh... so more teaching was necessary :)

Brian getting ready to help collect the food.

Look how little he's getting!!!

Big U - shape for the monks to travel around and get the goods.

Dumping loads of food into trucks!

Brian in a mass of orange.

Children and families giving food to the monks.

Teacher Tom and Teacher Gerry taking a load to the trucks.

Oh... and money too.