...saw a chicken get decapitated, then watched its wings flap helplessly while its head dangled by a dismembered nervous system. Yummy.
...missed decorating my Christmas tree with my family in the States.
...realized I am going to miss driving home from church with my host parents.
...learned that I have some incredibly hard working students. And some not so hard working ones.
...smiled when I read this from A Christmas Carol (my mother left it for me -- SUCH a good book!):
"There are many things from which I might have derived good by which I have not profited, I daresay," returned the nephew, "Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart form that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!"
--Hannah
No comments:
Post a Comment