Pin the Tail on the Turkey

On Saturday, Julia and I had a small Thanksgiving get together with some of our students. We had originally planned on 10ish students total... but on Friday, our students told us more were coming, maybe 25 total? We didn't know how many would come... but we didn't want to run out of food.  I think we had 16 students who came. And it was fun!!

I am making the biggest apple crisp ever! We peeled 13 pounds of apples! We made green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, gravy and bought chicken.

Some students came a little early to help peel, cut, cook and mash the potatoes.

 Students in line to get their food. We had to teach them how to make a little hole in the mashed potatoes so the gravy didn't run all over the plate.

 Most of these students are mine. Most of them liked most of the food.

 My students taking fun pictures.

 Making our feathers for Pin the Tail on the Turkey game. This probably sounds like such a juvenile game... but they really liked it!

Spinning the Thippachahn to pin on the feather.

Lamphoun is helping Phouveun stick on his feather.

Notice the two boys on the right in the back. This is such a normal thing for boys/men to do. They are always hanging on each other, with their arms on their shoulders. Or if we're sitting, draping an arm on someones leg.... They're so touchy and I think it's so cute!

Julia and I played and sang Forever by Chris Tomlin. We printed off words for the kids to sing along. They loved the guitar. A few of the students could play pretty well. We heard songs in English, Lao, Hmong (a minority group in Lao) and Chinese (I have an exchange student from China). 

Unfortunately, we made too much food! :( We will be eating sweet potatoes and apple crisp for weeks!