Grand Opening!

We had our grand opening for our English Center on Friday night. Karaoke, games, snacks, laughter, and lots of fun! It was a night of extrovertedness, for sure! Half of our students came, which was a great turnout--better than we've ever had at any events before! Here are some fun pictures from the evening...

hanging out in the reading area

one of my students--she's a teacher

two of my discussion class students learning how to play twister

karaoke!

my roomie and one of our close friends

massive banana grams game

me and our secretary :)

she gets to study for 2 months in the US soon!

one of my students that I'm closer with

explaining why we started the English center

We had lots of fun! There were a lot more pictures, but hopefully this gave a good idea of what we did :)

Our New English Center :)

Game room/hang out room

Artwork done by creative people (aka, not me!)

Conversation bubble greetings

Snack room

More fun paint :)

Reading room upstairs

This is yet to be finished, but you can probly guess what direction we're headed...

Library

Gotta love Dr Seuss!

Author bios

My favorite part of the whole center!! Valerie painted this!!

One of my fav books on the left

It's Not Everyday...

...you see a three year old boy and a four year old boy playing with matches and water bottles on the side of the mosque. Hmm...

Don't worry, I asked them why they were playing with fire and told them to be careful. The scary thing is, I didn't really think anything of them being by themselves or of them playing with matches until I walked away and thought, "Huh, you'd never see that in America. Maybe I should go back and take the matches away??" Aah! I'm becoming SE Asian! lol.

A Trip to the Pulau

We had a group from Oklahoma come visit us this last week, so we went to an island for a day. It was BEAUTIFUL, so relaxing, and wonderful :) This last month has been crazy to say the least, so it was nice to get away for a day. It was kind of like being on Lost--being removed from "real life" for a few hours :)

My CA Heart Was Happy :)

Beach!

Organic anything :)

BOBA...LOTS OF BOBA!!

No caption necessary

Sunset...on the beach :)

Walking in the sand

Good friends

It was Valentines Day...let us have a little cheese

BIKING!!! probably my highlight :)

Chai...like real chai made my an Indian man!

Our Hindi friend who did henna for us

Again no caption needed :)

GREEN and PARK together!!!