We Wish You A Merry Christmas!!

I had a very lovely Christmas Day yesterday with Sonali from Sri Lanka, Adnan from Syria, Areti from Cyprus, Michel from Egypt and Peter from Nigeria. Thank you, I was honoured to have you come and share this special day of the year with me.

Over lunch we answered and discussed several questions ... What are you most thankful for about 2017? What have you learned about yourself in 2017? Christmas is a season of faith; what does faith mean to you? What is the most meaningful gift have ever received? Faith, hope and love - which of these is most precious to you?              I especially loved Michel's answer to the question about what faith means  ...  he said "faith is the belief that tomorrow will be better than today."

I love traditional Christmas dinner, we had: roast turkey,
stuffing, roast potatoes, sweet potatoes with garlic,
carrot & onion mash, peas, sweet corn, sprouts,
broccoli, green beans and gravy.

We watched the Queen's speech, ate Christmas pudding with ice-cream and opened presents ...

 

 

We played several games and watched a film. It was a very pleasant and relaxed day.
Thank you for sharing it with me.
  

Sonali had disappeared by the time

we took this photo :-(

Christmas Dinner & Dance

Many thanks to all those who put so much work in to making Friday's FES Christmas Dinner and Dance such a lovely event.

Great company, good food and all-in-all a very enjoyable evening.

If you have any photos I can add to this collection please send them through to me.

TABLEtalk Christmas Party

Our TABLEtalk Christmas Party is always one of the highlights of our year and this year, as always, it was enjoyed by the 30 students and volunteers who came along.

Clement and Adnan,

where are your Christmas jumpers!!!!!

Getting ready for our game of 'legal steal' ... yes this is the only time I will allow you to steal something from someone else!!!

I lost out on several great gifts  ...  firstly an alarm clock which would really have helped to get me out of bed in the mornings, but Sue stole that! Then a lovely notebook but Jerminah took a fancy to that.  Actually, Mohamed then stole the notebook from Jerminah and did me a swop :-)


Gift exchange was followed by a spot of carolling ...

Before our final game of musical islands ...

Pesila and I had to adjudicate a dispute between Malaysia and Syria as they both laid claim to the same island!!!