Thursday, March 24, 2011

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.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Thanksgiving

It's hard to understand English, much less to draw it. Celery? Or Salary?

We finally sit down together for our Thanksgiving dinner.

JingSheng (Ben) is in charge with the potatoes.


Before any food on the table, there were many hands contributing in this Thanksgiving celebration. (Irina, Shun, and ShuanLing)

Birthdays

Our Cultural Connection class celebrating Abby and my birthdays in November.

A pleasant surprise to have Abby celebrating our birthdays together again.

Blow it harder. Congratulations on your becoming a year older, Cynthia!

Go ahead cut the cake. It's your birthday, ChengShieh!

Plimoth and Mayflower

We concluded our trip with New England seafood dinner, Yummy!

ShuangLing with the pilgrims

Laughing with the native people.

Inside the captain's cabin of the Mayflower. (Shun, me, JingSheng, Shuangling, Ting)
On board the Mayflower that carried 120 pilgrims to America.
Mayflower float with the background of the Plymouth Rock pavilion at the Thanksgiving parade in Plymouth.

This is believed to be the rock where the first Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, MA.

Kancamagus NH

Foliage peeping in New Hampshire.

A trip to Kancamagus Hwy in New Hampshire on Oct. 2, 2010 with (L-R): Fernando, Fe, Sunny, me & Chris.

Sabbaday fall in NH.

Shapley International House

From L-R: Irina (Russia), Cori (USA), Shun Nakamura (Japan), Chris, JingSheng (Taiwan), me, ShuangLing (China). November house dinner (11/14/10).

Farewell dinner at the Brazillian restaurant for our dear friend, Fernando.

We have a special visit from Dr. Samuel Mathai (third from right) from India (10/3/10).

Dr. Fernando (Brazil) is cooking the Brazillian meatballs. Yummy!

L-R: Chris, Bruno (Italy), Hamad & Jameel (Saudi Arabia)
Bruno successfully influenced these two Saudi men to shave their hair. Congratulations!

Who says men can't cook and clean? Here is the proof! While our men are working hard in the kitchen, our Saudi woman just playing her ipod. Sign of the times!

In honor of our Muslims friends, we celebrated Eid Ul Fitr on 9/11 to celebrate the end of Ramadan.


What happen when nations get together? We eat and laugh a lot. Food and laughter bring people together! From L-R: Cori (USA), Bruno (Italy), Jameel (Saudi Arabia), me, Hamad (Saudi), Sade (Guatemala/Egypt). Aug. 29,2010.