Khanhverse: November 2014

Friday, November 28, 2014

Christmas cookie frosting and tree decorating - November 28

Today I spent the entire morning until 2 p.m. baking Christmas sugar cookies for the students to frost in the evening. After coming back from teaching in town, I made the frosting. I couldn't find food coloring, so I improvised. I bought 10-gram tubes of colored sugar gel for decorating cupcakes. I used the entire content of each tube to produce the colors you see below for the frosting. (The white frosting consists of just powder sugar and milk.) As you can see, I couldn't get Christmas tree green or Christmas stocking red. But that did not matter to the students.

Hannah counted the number of sugar cookies I had baked. She reported 168.

The frosting started at 9:30 p.m.

Brian's creations.

Megan's creation.

Zach and Justine. We call them Zachstine.

Two pugdeer

Oh dear, five reindeer!

4 reindeer, 2 pugdeer, and 1 elf.

Oh dear, a reindeer with red antlers!!

The party scene when I left the reception room to upload the pictures above to this post.

Our decorated Christmas tree.

Happy birthday, Brian! (November 27)

Brian holds a plate of white chocolate cookies that I baked for his birthday.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Roommate Pictures

I thought it would be fairly easy to take pictures of the students with their roommates at group gatherings. However, I have discovered that one or more students might miss any one particular group gathering, except for the educational field trip, of course. Nonetheless, persistence on my part has finally paid off. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the roommate pictures:

Room 2: Jacob & Kenny