Posts Tagged ‘New Year’

New School Year Underway Again for 2012

Sunday, April 15th, 2012

Yeah!

Class has started up again, and classes are underway. I haven’t met all of my classes for the new year/semester yet, but I have met most of them.

It looks like another good year with some good classes and interesting students.

I have my regular classes of English Interaction that will meet next week for the first time, but I have already met my other classes.

Web English got kicked off this week with lots of students, and a few I know already.

Took a picture at the end of class last Friday. These guys look like they might be ones to watch 😉

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New Year’s Skating fun

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

During break time we usually have a chance to get together with one of Ahn’s friends from back in his daycare days. She and her family actually moved away several years ago, but her grandfather still livesa few houses down from us, and they come to visit.

When she visits, the boys try to meet her and at least go to the park to play or invite her over to watch movies or eat or play here at our house since she’s usually here for a few days.

When they come, we also usually try to get together as families for some kind of fun. We’ve gone to the river, BBQ’d with them, and out to eat in the past.

This time we decided at that last minute to go iceskating.

Yep.

Iceskating.

When I was a boy, we used to skate on the ponds on the farm. Yes, I’m one of _those_ guys. We even sometime had people over for skating parties.

I remember sometimes skating when we couldn’t skate next to each other for fear the ice would break, too 😉

We didn’t have those kinds of problems this time though, hehheh.

We’ve gone several times to the skating rink out at Morikoro park (where the Expo was held a few years ago).

That’s where we headed this time, too.

Here are a few photos from the day on ice.

Me being helpful :-)

Me being helpful 🙂

More strange Santa photos

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Getting a lot more like Christmas around our house these days. Put up the tree of course right after Thanksgiving which is our family tradition. We usually leave the tree and lights up until New Year’s Day.

We have been putting things up a little at a time this year because of a really, really crazy schedule and the fact that large number of our previous decorations haven’t aged well and needed replacing.

We were playing around the tree a few nights ago and took a few photos of our blowup Santa and some of his helpers.

Here they are…