Thanksgiving and Birthdays

Hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving! I talked to J this week and she told me all about her Thanksgiving and her birthday. She was able to spend Thanksgiving with her supervisor and her supervisor’s family this year, and she said she had a really, really great time. She thought it was
going to be a tough holiday away from family, but J said she was surprised because she had a really good Thanksgiving this year. She’s really looking forward to Christmas a lot more now!

J said her birthday didn’t go as nicely as Thanksgiving did because she was sick again. Be keeping her in your thoughts the next few weeks as she continues to adjust to her new city since this was the fourth time she has been sick in the short time she has lived there. However, J did say that
once she was able to celebrate her birthday, she had fun going out to dinner and letting the rest of her team make her into a cake! She said that it’s a tradition to dump traditional cake ingredients (as in raw eggs and flower!) onto the person having the birthday. J said there will be pictures posted soon!

J’s English class end this week; the classes only run for about three weeks and this one is finishing up already! She’s really enjoyed teaching and getting to know some of the people who come to the English Center. She starts up a new class pretty soon. Also, her language classes are going well—she is a lot more encouraged about them than she was when they first started, and she said that she’s starting to learn how to converse in the new language she is learning. She said that it is much easier to learn when she gets to converse in it rather than simply learning vocabulary words.

Other than Thanksgiving and getting to go to a nearby movie theater and see the new Twilight
movie, J said that she had a pretty routine week. However, she did want to tell you all that she really, really enjoyed watching the Carolina/Clemson football game over Thanksgiving weekend and “Go Gamecocks!”