D’s first birthday and first birthday cake
Art class with friends
A Tibetan Buddhist monastery
View from friend’s house across from the monastery
Making Thanksgiving Dinner for a bunch of people
One of the tables set for Thanksgiving
Making Christmas cookies
Thanksgiving Dinner and the Christmas party were big hits because for many of the guests, it was the first time they had ever celebrated American/Western holidays. At the Christmas party we put on a Christmas play, which was the first time most of the teachers had ever heard about the birth of Jesus. Very cool!
We made nearly 400 jiaozi (dumplings) for a Chinese New Year get-together