Tag: Christmas

• A Look Back to December

  

  After a blog break, I’m back, and now with photos from December. It was a busy month and end of the semester. The highlights were hosting another excellent Christmas party and once again sharing my cookie baking tradition (see my post from the previous year). Then on Christmas Day a few other foreign teachers and…

  megsthewanderer

  5 February 2018

  Peace Corps

  China, Christmas, December, food, holiday, party, photo

• Sharing A Christmas Eve Tradition

  

  Growing up, my house was filled with the smell of baking cookies during the month of December. The Christmas of my childhood has the smell and taste of spritz cookies imprinted in my memory. For several weeks leading up to Christmas, my mom would bake batches of several different kinds of cookies. She stored the…

  megsthewanderer

  28 December 2016

  culture, Peace Corps, teaching

  China, Christmas, Christmas Eve, cookies, Peace Corps, xmas, Xmas Eve

• Christmas with my brother

  

  It is now past the middle of February, but here is a story from last Christmas. For Christmas 2014 I had the opportunity to be with my brother in Indonesia. To the Western audience it must be said that I don’t actually have a brother in my immediate family–this brother is my Indonesian family, and…

  megsthewanderer

  18 February 2015

  Batak culture, Indonesia, story

  Batak, Christmas, family, marga, Medan