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| Teri, Tom and Zimo |
Saturday night was the Chi Alpha party at Georgetown with our international student friends. Took some buttermilk cookies and seven layer dip along with gallons of leftover punch from Tom's retirement shindig. The Leavey building where most the events are held is not near any parking so we had to haul everything across the very cold campus in a laundry cart and with me balancing a tray in each arm. Unfortunately I had the seven layer dip up against me so had a bunch of bean dip on the breast of my jacket. Yeah, attractive. Anyway, once we arrived we had a good time.
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| Qianlei Li and Kristin |
It's interesting because the activities at these gatherings always seem a bit juvenile but the students always seem to have a great time. There was a table set up for cookie decorating, a snowflake cut out table, a Jenga game on one table and a Spoons game going on another. Costumes for pix in once corner and lots of yummy finger foods and goodies.
As these students are not Christian we have to be careful according to the university's guidelines to not push the religion. Even though Chi Alpha is a christian organization and they sponsor the International Friends program (and the students KNOW they're a Christian org.) so we're really just supposed to be open to questions if they have them. But tonight's program was very Christ oriented as leaders shared the story of the nativity and we sang some hymns.
After we also sang some secular Christmas holiday songs including the 12 days of Christmas with Tom and Zimo in the "9 Ladies Dancing" group. In fact there were NO ladies in that group. Nor dancers, really.
There were other games that were fun and that the student's thought were hilarious so everyone had a good time.
Sunday we got up early for church and heard
this awesome sermon. Just what I needed to hear. And then we stopped at Tom's office so he could do a few things before heading over to World Market in Pentagon City. Saw this fun ice skating rink and these beautiful ice sculptures before heading home to a warm apartment, good food, naps and football. Great day.
It's interesting because the activities at these gatherings always seem a bit juvenile but the students always seem to have a great time. There was a table set up for cookie decorating, a snowflake cut out table, a Jenga game on one table and a Spoons game going on another. Costumes for pix in once corner and lots of yummy finger foods and goodies.
As these students are not Christian we have to be careful according to the university's guidelines to not push the religion. Even though Chi Alpha is a christian organization and they sponsor the International Friends program (and the students KNOW they're a Christian org.) so we're really just supposed to be open to questions if they have them. But tonight's program was very Christ oriented as leaders shared the story of the nativity and we sang some hymns.
Sunday we got up early for church and heard this awesome sermon. Just what I needed to hear. And then we stopped at Tom's office so he could do a few things before heading over to World Market in Pentagon City. Saw this fun ice skating rink and these beautiful ice sculptures before heading home to a warm apartment, good food, naps and football. Great day.
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