The view of the snow outside from my window in the room.
Playing in the snow right outside the base. We totally messed up this whole stretch of snow.
Making our snowman.
Half my team + people from the English language learning team.
Our tiny, dirty, and disfigured snowman. The layer of snow on the ground was too thin, so all the dirt kept getting stuck on to the snow and ended up as part of our snowman. Also, when we tried to poke the branch into the 'face' to make the nose, half the 'face' fell off. But still... we were proud of our work.
Catching snowflakes on my glove (which, by the way, totally fails at keeping me warm).
One of the guys was so fascinated by the snowflakes caught in my hair, he took numerous pictures of it.
Standing in the snow.
More snow on my hair.
We went to Birmingham this week to give out tracts, and were surprised by the abnormal positive reaction we got from the crowd. We stood on the street and handed out the tracts with smiles and Christmas greetings, and I guess Christmas makes everyone friendlier, because they all took our Christmas tracts and wished us 'Merry Christmas' back with smiles.
There were several interesting encounters I had with guys - one teenage guy kept walking in circles around me so he could get more tracts; one guy walked past me and told me he'd take the tract later, and a few seconds later he walked back and took it and told me I should write my number on it; one guy read it in front of me, told me he was a Christian, gave it back to me, asked me which organization I was working with, then took the tract back and said he would like to keep it after all.
We also went to the German Christmas market that's been in Birmingham since November and will be there till Christmas. It was wonderful. All the lights and hot chocolate and Christmas decorations just make everything seem more Christmas-y. There were stalls selling gloves, scarfs, coats, burgers, pretzels, Christmas tree decorations, crepes, hot chocolate and coffee, fudge, sugar coated nuts, German doughnuts, German sweets, German frankfurters, German beer, and lots more.
Best hazelnut Bailey's fudge ever.
It was so cold, even a cup of hot chocolate failed to warm me up. This England weather is insane. Sometimes it's so cold my head hurts and I can't breathe, and the scary part is, it's not even winter yet. I shudder to think how horrible it would be like in January.
Seeing chestnuts on sale made me think of the Christmas song 'chestnuts roasting on an open fire,' and I've always wanted to try a chestnut, so I got a bagful of them. But it turned out they were really hard to crack open, so by the time I got to the insides, they were cold.
When we started giving out the tracts, it started to snow. Heavily. I think some people may have taken the tracts from me because they were probably thinking, 'oh this poor asian girl, standing in the freezing cold... I'd better help her out.'
Yummy German chocolate and apple doughnuts.
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