Almost the season--

China seems to celebrate on Christmas eve, but does little for Christmas day. On the 25th, they work and go to class and everything is "normal." There are decorations everywhere, but not one of my students had ever seen a candy cane or knew what gingerbread was--we did a word game and other words they didn't recognize were Rudoph & mittens. They call everything for hands--gloves. They don't know it, but Terol sent me candy canes and I will give them all one next week. The next week is finals. That will end our first semester in China and we will train and travel with the China teachers until next semester.