Socking stuffer

Tonight we had an end of the semester Christmas party. Somehow the entire campus caught word of this, and we arrived to the appluase of about 50 people. Some students were there that I hadn't seen since the first day of class. Luckily we prepared an all star line up of party games. First, we played pin the nose on Rudolph which was slightly compromised by the students telling each other when they were next to it. The next game was a real crowd pleaser. We took a photo of me holding a fake snowball and put it up the projector.

Then we had the students go to the back of the classroom and throw rolled up socks at my picture. Baseball is not a recgonized sport in China and some of the throws went a bit errant. The girls however had surprisingly good accuracy. One of them was a real Roger Clemens headhunter and hit my face on 4 out of 5 snowballs. After about two hours of of party gaming we taught them some carols. The real event of the night though was the picture taking at the end. I suspect 20% of those that attended came mostly for that.


We also decided to take a christmas photo in our apartment after we decorated.