Celebrating

Though our grades have been completed and entered since Monday, we still had one extra week of school to complete. Since there was little motivation to start anything new, much of our time this past week has been taken up by celebrations of the end of the semester. On Wednesday, we had our advisor group Christmas party. We played games,

decorated Christmas cookies,

and had some great Tibetan food.

We also made our students bring in a sock so that we could have a traditional Christmas stocking for each of them. Some of them are actually our socks, but they got the idea when they saw all the candy and presents stuffed inside.

In addition to our advisor group Christmas party, we also had a banquet with the whole of the middle school. Though he was not actually present in India any more, there was a place reserved for Dave's student teacher, Matt.

We also had a fantastic visit from Santa Claus.

He dropped off a present for everyone, though some were more appropriate than others.

We love our students, but we are definitely ready for them all to head home. We are excited for the plans that we have during this Christmas break, even if we have to stay in India.

Dave and Beth