Happy holidays from China!

Well, I know this isn't the greatest of pictures, but it does have a Chinese Santa Claus in it, so I thought it was at least in the right spirit. Last night our department treated us to a lovely dinner at what is probably the nicest hotel in town (a room there per night costs half my monthly salary, and I get paid a lot by Chinese standards). It came complete with Santa, whose English actually wasn't that bad. Anyway, happy holidays to you all!

Alright, this might be a touch dark, but here's another pic from my party--my friend Aaliyah and I dancing a Sevillana (a type of Flamenco) as a performance. It worked out okay, but our styles were a little different, so I think it looked a touch funny. That and I still can't hear the damn Sevillana rhythm!

This pic is also from the party. It's me losing in musical chairs in the very last round. Actually it was better that way, it's never fun when the teacher wins. At least I got to be competative though. As for yesterday's post, sorry for the typos. I posted it at like four in the morning, so I wasn't exactly all pulled together. I'm actually a little surprised it had so few :o). Hope all is well!

Okay, so I'm terribly behind with photos, but it has been becuase I have accidently left my camera at home during several good photo ops. This one, however, is one of my sophomore-level classes during a party that we had at the cafeteria of my foreigners's compound this evening. All in all, it was a good party, though I think I prefered the one I had with my freshman earlier this week--they went through two cases of beer and were fairly uninhibited, my sophomores went through only four bottles, one of which was given to a foreigner if I recall, and took some incouragement. But yay for fun times!

He He. Well, it's Christmas time here in Kunming too, but sometimes the decorations just scare me, like this one. Hello, what is Santa up to? He looks like he's scared and screaming or something. That's one way to freak out little children though I guess.

Much to my shock, surprise, and horror, I just realized that I have forgotten to post pictures for the last couple of days! Aaaah. My apologies for my forgetfulness, but I never promised that I would actually be able to keep up that pic a day. Anyway, this one is me hiding under a phoenix (in case it wasn't obvious). I was really having much to much fun that day with the pics...