Children's Orphanage

During Christmas week we also went a visited a home for children whose parents are in jail. Since the parents might still be living- they don't receive funding as a usual orphanage would. We put together gifts and made tons of cookies, we played games all afternoon, and sang songs, it was a lot of fun!

Some of the goodies!

Icing the cookies!

Starting to put some of the goodies together


Krista and I

We loaded up a taxi and a huge van with gifts, rice, oil, and flour

On the way there


Playing tag


Egg race with Chinese spoons and Christmas ornaments


Playing games!

Instead of duck-duck-goose, its "ya-ya-e"

One of the girls' dorms

Hanging out

More fun!

Gingerbread Houses!

During the week of Christmas we decided to invite some of our friends over to make gingerbread houses-something they had never done before. We invited them without telling them what they were in for... but to just bring some small candies! It was so much fun!

Linda and Andrew

JunZhi and YangChen

Angela and I working on our house

Our kitchen table!!

Roomies! Their house fell down :(

We teamed up and each made our own houses!