Christmas Time Is Here
Christmas time is here…it took me a while to get into the Christmas spirit this year. There’s not a whole lot of it here. After our Christmas party Saturday night for the foreign students and then I received some a card from my friend, I got a little bit of Christmas cheer in me.
Now, it’s the day after Christmas but that doesn’t mean the Christmas season is over yet. Here’s a photo of my Charlie Brown Christmas tree. This plant died about a month ago. Just one day I didn’t water it and it dried up. Yes, the plant was on the window sill and yes it was extra sunny that day. One day the pot fell and broke, but I still never threw the plant out. A few days ago I got the idea to decorate the tree. It’s nice isn’t it? My friend gave me two oranaments as a Christmas gift (not seen in the photo). It’s a pair of a Chinese couple on their wedding day, dressed in red, the girl sitting on the box of gifts with a double happiness on it and the boy holding a red rope with a fancy knot in it. When I put one of the ornaments on the tree it hung over just like Charlie Brown’s tree.
Speaking of which, I watched A Charlie Brown Christmas last night with some friends. Among us, Japanese, Korean and American, we watched the movie in our mutual language, Chinese. The kids’ voices are funny.
This year’s Christmas was great. Of course anything beats getting hit by a car and running out of fuel on your scooter in the same day. Yesterday, I joked that I should be careful when going outdoors. I had super bad luck last year. But, it doesn’t matter now.
Life is good. A New Year is upon us. Let’s make the best of it.