Monday, June 27, 2011

Coastal Maine

Ahh, seafood! Don't leave Maine without eating seafood. Here is the best seafood in America. Yummy!

Abdulaziz with the summer home of President Bush senior in the background. Kennebunkport, ME.

Isn't he lovely! Jameel (Handsome) with Obama.

With our Indian friends, Swati, Chitra & Prakash.

International House - Spring 2011

Here are our Indians and Saudi friends in our international house.

Our India residents cooked a delicious Indian dinner.

It's sad to say good bye to good friends, Cori (front left), Sade (front right) and Anish (second from right foreground).

Round Table Discussion with Arab friends

It has never been a dull moment in our round table discussion at BU. We talked about families, traditions, religions, customs, history, anything else, etc. We've learned a lot from these Arab men. Thank you for taking the time to share with us that we can learn from one another.

Some of our Arab friends at BU (left to right): Jameel, Chris & Nanan, Abdulaziz B, and Mohamed.
It's all started when our Handsome Jameel (that is what his name mean) introduced us to his Arab friends at BU. Jameel stayed at our international house last year.

Graduations

Syani Gordon (Costa Rica) also graduated from Boston University in May. Here is her family joining her celebration.

We are so very proud of you, Sara Huang (Taiwan). Congratulation! Her next position will be doing her post doc work in Delaware

It took seven full years to earn this Ph.D degree from BU. Congrats Sara!
Sara, Nanan, Susan, and Sara's brother.

We celebrate Sade's graduation with her family and friends at Barking Crab in Boston.

Sade Elhawary's graduation day at Harvard University. Congrats girl!

Battle Field 2011

Here are our Patriots - Minutemen - men ready for battle in a minute notice.

The marching of the Red Coats.

After hearing Paul Revere cried, "The regulars are out!", Chris and Abdulaziz joined militiamen to battle the British.


Abdulaziz Bin Rayes (Saudi Arabia), displayed his allegiance to the flags of America.

Road Block - Syani and Jehnesi (Costa Rica) were blocked by the red coat from joining the militiamen in Concord.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Cooking Italian dinner

What a best way to end the delicious dinner with a viewing of Jesus video. From L-R: Chris, Bryan (Ireland), Anish (India), Paige (USA), Robin (Germany), and Abdulaziz (Arab).

Abdulaziz (Arab) and Robin (Germany)

Now, it's time to taste the result by the international jurors. Bravo!

Here come the vegetables, mazzarella cheese, and the bread. It's a meatless Italian dinner.
Steamy spaghetti being served.

Men at work in the kitchen.

Robin Hillier (German) who studies in Rome gets a taste of his Italian cooking.

Beat the Winter Blues

If you can't beat the winter blues, you might as well join the winter sport - skiing in New Hampshire (2/19/11)

Game night with our friends (1/15/11) after skating in Medford.

Boston First Night and Winter 2011

We welcome you inside our warm international house!

Here is our neighborhood after being bombarded by snowstorm after snowstorms this winter. We are dreaming of sandy Christmas instead!

Whales of adventure awaiting us this year!

We welcome New Year with great expectation this year - to meet more people from around the world and share Christ's love to all nations.

Christmas 2010

Shun Nakamura and Yu (Japan) enjoying the Christmas lights.

Shuangling & husband (center) and Shun & Yu (right) attending Christmas Eve service.

We joined with the angels proclaiming the birth of Jesus and singing, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rest."

Jameel (Arab) attended our Christmas celebration.

Follow the lead dancer Diane, as we learned the Israel's folk dancing during the Christmas celebration.