Merry Christmas!
Wishing everyone all the best for the holiday season!
Hope this finds you all happy and healthy
and enjoying time spent with you family and friends!
This week, I received the above card with "last but not least" written inside. I've got quite the collection of gel gems now, and when the holidays are over, I'm going to safely tuck them away to bring back to Canada and enjoy for many Christmas' to come. Thank you Younes'!
Yesterday I was still teaching classes, and will do so for the rest of the week. I can't actually be bothered to "teach" as the students have finished exams and currently have so much surplus energy they could be locked in large hamster wheels as alternate energy sources. A BIG thank you to Vanessa and my brother for finding me copies of The Grinch to show in my classes. For the first time since my introductory class in September, the kids were so quiet, you could have heard a pin drop. Despite the imaginative language of Seuss, and the animated nature that I thought would make it flop for being too childish, my students watched with wide eyes, laughed at Max the dog and even cooed at Cindy Lou Who. My Christmas week sanity has been saved!
Last night, Sara and I had a quiet Christmas night filled with all sorts of tasty treats, and watched a movie that is slowly becoming a Christmas Eve tradition. Last year I was curled up on the couch with Kyle watching it, and this year Sara decided to join into the cult following of Love Actually.
Movie watching was a more interesting experience than expected: my TV doesn't have outlets for S-cable hookups, and the speakers on my laptop are ridiculously weak, so Sara and I ended sitting side by side on the floor, 6 inches away from the laptop, each with one earphone in. No sudden movements were allowed, and Sara would occasionally shout out commentary that must've made the neighbors think there's someone with Turrets living next door. In the end, Sara is now a Love Actually convert (mission accomplished), and I got my annual helping of good movie giddiness (how great is Hugh Grant as the Prime Minister?! I mean, really...)
Bellies full of veggies and dip, cheese and bread, and cake and Baileys, we opened one gift each and were both out for the count by 10pm. Today, the celebrations continue with more friends!