Christmas party...

That's my girl Sisi as MC.

Ibu Linda stirring the soup...

Can I just say first how much I dislike trying to organize photos on blogger??? How do people get their photos lined up so nicely and with nice little borders around them???

Anyways, last Friday we had the annual MAF Christmas party. It is held in the hangar and they hang up big tarps, blue and orange ones - pretty- to "hide" the machinery around and then hang up some squiggly balloons and some other fancy decorations. They invited everyone to come at 5:30 but the intended start time was 6:00. This is important to do as we live on jam (time) karet (rubber) here...

We sang and we watched a few video clips and there were a couple speeches and a devotional and then all the kids received a Samaratan's purse box. The boxes were actually leftovers from two years ago. The organizing ladies had to remove all the melted candy first...

Then we all ate together. We scooped the rice out of a large cooler using dinner plates as scoopers. There were chicken pieces (here they just chop up whole chickens there's never just drums and breasts...) beans with pieces of beef in it, and chicken soup and krupuk. It was a very meaty meal and probably the only real meaty meal some of the national workers will eat all year. Then we all went home and bathed our kids as they got just filthy from playing at the back of the hangar all evening... sigh...

On Friday morning, Christiaan's class along with another grade did the all-school chapel and that's a photo of him with his teacher and some of his classmates.