It’s Christmas Time in the City! Well… almost!
Today I wandered over to my old blog and began sifting through some of the things I wrote last year. I found a bunch of pictures of my Christmas tree from last year… oh, those are some of my favourite things! I realized that I am SO excited for winter to come and for Christmas lights and decorations to appear. Melissa and I were listening to the Home Alone Christmas CD the other day and downloading Mariah Carey’s “All I want for Christmas” onto our computers… a little premature, I know!
In other news – I am trying to decide what I should do next summer. I know I want to travel at least a little bit. I would LOVE to go to China and see my students and friends again (and see CHINA again!), I would also enjoy going back to Calgary and working a bit and hang out with my family and friends there. Oh… what to do!?
Melissa wrote a post on her blog about the two of us dealing with Culture shock. (There is a link to it on the right). I can definitely agree with her comment about the honeymoon phase being over and the reality of living in Illinois setting in. It is hard but I do still love it here and enjoy the adventure of being in a new ‘culture.’ Today marks the beginning of Fall Break… I think I might take a day off of school work and reading to explore Chicago some more. Maybe this will be the weekend to go to China town!
My First Thanksgiving!
I cooked my first Thanksgiving dinner (turkey and all) this year for our RA staff in honour of Canadian Thanksgiving.
Before
Emily helping me peel the potatoes. This was the biggest potato that I have ever seen!
It’s in the oven!
Me and the bird! I am wearing the apron two of my students gave me when I left China. They told me that I could wear this apron when I got married… I decided to wear it anyway!
Jim eating
I made A LOT of food… and it was all eaten! I have to say, I’m impressed with these RA’s and their ability to polish off a 20 lb Turkey!
New journal for a new life…
New blogs are kind of like new journals. Every once in a while you come to the last page of your journal and you need to start a new one. I figured that there is no better time to start a new journal than at a time when there are so many new things! New job. New grad program. All new people. New city, state, even country!
This is my friend Melissa and I sporting our GRA pagers. Thankfully we look harmless or people may begin to wonder…
