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.

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.