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<\/a><\/p>\nThis is fairly typical of the Santa signs on windows around town.\u00a0 The trees were plastic and unimpressive.<\/p>\n
My pineapple top \u00a0“Christmas tree” with the snowman tree ornament from Christmas lunch.\u00a0 I brought the cross stitched \u00a0koala in a stocking from Australia.\u00a0 It now has a new home in the Philippines.\u00a0 The small red pot previously \u00a0had cacti in it\u00a0and was a gift from a student last Christmas.\u00a0 Obviously it didn’t\u00a0survive the year.<\/p>\n Some of the many apples I received from students as Christmas gifts.\u00a0 From what I can understand apple in pinyin has the same meaning as \u00a0safety<\/em> and therefore is considered an appropriate Christmas gift.\u00a0 The usual method of presentation is to \u00a0wrap the apple\u00a0or sometimes oranges, in several layers of paper and cellophane.\u00a0 Special boxes are also made for the occasion.\u00a0 One student made a box to size, covered it in attractive paper and decorated it with ribbon folded\u00a0to special designs.<\/p>\n One of her special ribbon designs.\u00a0 Earlier in the semester the college held a dormitory competition and some of the students \u00a0folded ribbons into similar and other designs to stick on their walls.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>One of the teacher entertainers at the city’s Christmas dinner for foreign teachers.\u00a0 A number of the Chinese teacher entertainers\u00a0had dressed in Christmas colours.<\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0Same day, another party.\u00a0 This time it was the English Department at the college which put on a Christmas concert.\u00a0 Two students dressed as Santas and doing \u00a0an item.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n