thanksgiving

today in pictures:
danielle said something about putting a spoon in your mouth stops you from crying when you cut onions.
tin foil was pretty useful in a small kitchen. these are the pies
all of us hanging out in the kitchen before dinnerYUMMM. we didn't brine it, but it was delicious.
this was the colorful end of the table
my bowl of thanksgiving food. i got jaime to try to a green bean, but nothing else
joyce being cute with her mouth full
bobo, jaime and i
joyce being a ham making a funny face
my thanksgiving craft project. only one out of 8 caught on fire by the end of the night.
noe made ground beef and salsa for burritos but i think we were all kind of preoccupied with the turkey.

serena and i made apple crisp for the 4th time this week but it didn't last long enough to photograph. we were all dying waiting for lesley to get back from her walk to cut into the pumpkin pies she made, so i offered up the apple crisp while we were waiting.

it was a really nice day/night. it's not often that we all hang out together and it was fun to cook all day. we decided that it tasted remarkably north american given our taiwanese ingredients.
happy thanksgiving!

happy thanksgiving

it's funny how you get a feeling about people's personalities. i get really exhausted during my 2 hour outside class at the jr high because it's a giant classroom and there are twice as many kids as i'm used to, but they have such good energy that it's always a lot of fun.
they're preparing for some kind of show so today when i got there they were all doing this funny, nsync-esque choreographed dance. they were shy for 2 seconds before they said 'hey megan, check out our dance' and performed it for me. i really like them. today they told me i dress like a model. that made me laugh.
i wore the turkey earrings aunt carol sent in honor of thanksgiving today. it was funny because i forgot i was wearing them but when i went to class today, my kids looked at me oddly and started screaming 'SHE HAS TURKEY EARRINGS ON'. this picture doesn't really show them, but they were pretty funny. i'm thrilled my ears didn't get infected.

tonight i subbed a kindy class and i thought i was going to lose my mind. 13 6 and 7 year olds. i was screaming as loud as i could possibly go at one point and there was absolutely no response. it was sooo loud in there. i think one kid was seriously bipolar. one minute he was asking me every question he could think of, the next second he was bawling his eyes out.
i wore my festive red suede shoes today. they're getting really dirty from riding the scooter, but i love them.

it didn't feel like thanksgiving around here, but we did go to hot pot for dinner. 7 of us. it was fun. hot pot is a little bit of a special occasion place. i guess i talked about it when we went there last week, but it's like the melting pot but not really. man i would kill for the melting pot right now! mom said we can go there when i get back.

speaking of going home, i'm starting to get really, really excited. i peeked at my december calendar page today and it's really coming up quickly. one week of regular class, one week of special classes full of parent conferences and stuff, and then i go home on tuesday. i think 6 months is my cut off for not being able to see the fam. in some ways, it feels like a whole lifetime. but we talk every day so in other ways, nothing has changed.