Also one more note before I end this post gingerbread cookies are a big hit with Lao people. As one students put it, "Not as good as pancakes, but I like." So be on the lookout for the recipe sometime later this week!
Friday, December 12, 2014
Christmas with Students
Last week I invited my year four students to come over and celebrate the holiday with me. I told them that Americans like to celebrate all month long with parties, cookies, gift exchanges, etc. I reminded them everyday in class about my Christmas party on Friday night. Several said they were going to come, but let's be real you can't always trust a Lao person. Warning: They will always tell you yes even when they can't. So when Friday rolled around and it was half an hour past when I invited them to come, I started to worry. But just as I was getting ready to drown my sorrows in a batch of ginger bread cookies I saw three little shadows walking towards my door. "Students!" I shouted! (really I did) and ran to the door. Three students are better than none. As we ate cookies, made cards, and watched Arthur Christmas (in Thai I might add) slowly but surely more students began to trickle in. By the end of the night our bellies were full on gingerbread men and I was left with a stack of Christmas cards wishing me happiness.
Also one more note before I end this post gingerbread cookies are a big hit with Lao people. As one students put it, "Not as good as pancakes, but I like." So be on the lookout for the recipe sometime later this week!
Also one more note before I end this post gingerbread cookies are a big hit with Lao people. As one students put it, "Not as good as pancakes, but I like." So be on the lookout for the recipe sometime later this week!
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What a lovely thing to do! It's so nice that you're that close with your students...I teach 14 classes of about 20 kids each! I don't even know all of their names yet! This is dumb but are there enough Christians in Laos that the kids would know the traditions? Or is this all new to them? I'm teaching my kids about Hanukkah (basically no Jews in France) and they're enthralled!
Chloe | Wanderlust in the Midwest
I can't believe you teach 14 classes?! I teach three classes. Two of them have about 40 students each and the other only 12. Its been really hard learning names for me too. Thankfully I'm getting most of them down now, and it helps that I live in a house provided by the school so all my students live in dorms next door.
And to answer you question, No most people here are Buddhist. Many have heard of Christmas but they don't know anything about it other than people give gifts and put up trees. So its been a lot of fun to teach them about it, and that's really cool that you are getting to teach them about Hanukkah! What age group are you teaching?
I love how close you are to your class! x
Right?! I teach 1st-5th grade, each class for about an hour a week. Not enough time at all for English!
ALSO if you haven't already, go to a Buddhist meeting. My good friend is Buddhist and I've gone with her, and it's so meaningful and spiritual no matter what your religion!
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