Decembers Pictures

i went to the zoo as well!!! pandas are the most adorable animals up close! (also Tous Les Jours is my favorite backory in Beijing.)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! im doing well. Just got over my THIRD cold of the year. three too many if u ask me. Christmas is around the corner and I have cut out and taped up paper snowflakes on m window, made a gingerbread house, dressed as Santa for a day and exchanged secret Santa gifts. Tomorrow the entire Dickinson group is going out for Christmas Hotpot (along with 2 of my chinese friends) I even put my secret santa gift and some chocolate in my santa hat and hung it off my bed post. I feel so Christmasy. Anyway. The Dickinson kids are all going to Shanghai next week. That will be fun. Supposedly we're staying in a pretty nice hotel and eating out every night and going to a convert on New Years Eve. Did you know the average chinese house doesnt have an oven. Thats right, unless your a westerner who owns a really really nice house, the average or even more wealthy chinese folk doesnt have an oven. The chinese dont even use ovens. so wierd. also. Its freezing here. Today the there was a high of 36 and a low of 17 and with windchill the low was 7. 7!!! its so so so cold. and no sone. theres only 2 inches of cummulative rainfall here a year. I will upload photos of my BEAUTIFUL Chinese style gingerbread house (it took me and JP HOURS to make) and my day dressed up as santa (an all day frolic around Beijing (and its many bars) dressed as santa ) as well as some other various photos taken with my fabulous new camera that doesnt take pink pictures :)