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| The Academy Staff Christmas Party |
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| The Junior High/High School Team. Front Row: Myriam (French), Floor (P.E./Computers), Kim (English), Robert (Science) Back Row: David (Principal), Me (Math)
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| Decorating cookies at the Academy Christmas party |
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| Running the Jingle Bell Dash - a 2k run from our dock to the port gate and back. This is Maya, my running partner. She is an excellent pace-setter! |
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Christmas Carols by Candlelight - led by our Australian crew
(complete with a few special Aussie carols and a blow up kangaroo)
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| Making treats for a Christmas party |
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| Me and my bunkmate, Tam. They don't have white Christmasses in Madagascar! |
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| My family sent my stocking from home! They are amazing because they had to send it by August for it to get here in time! This is the window in my cabin. |
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| The ship tradition is to put your shoe outside your cabin on Christmas Eve. Then everyone goes around leaving little gifts and candy in each other's shoes. |
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| Gingerbread House Making |
I'll close this post with a poem that sparked my interest this Advent. May the joy of Emmanuel - God with us - fill your life this year.
O Adonai
Unsayable, you chose to speak one tongue,
Unsayable, you chose to speak one tongue,
Unseeable,
you gave yourself away,
The
Adonai, the Tetragramaton
Grew
by a wayside in the light of day.
O
you who dared to be a tribal God,
To
own a language, people and a place,
Who
chose to be exploited and betrayed,
If
so you might be met with face to face,
Come
to us here, who would not find you there,
Who
chose to know the skin and not the pith,
Who
heard no more than thunder in the air,
Who
marked the mere events and not the myth.
Touch
the bare branches of our unbelief
And
blaze again like fire in every leaf.
~Malcolm Guite
