Grant's 1rst Grade Holiday show

Grant's 1rst grade class, Mrs. Brill's, had their Holiday show last week, so cute to see how hard they worked on this show. Grant had a speaking part which he was so proud of. :) He was nervous but did FABULOUS!

Five of the 1rst grade classes were in our show, but there are 13 first grade classes at The Singapore American School. This show was a great way to get into the Holiday spirit!

Mrs. Brill's class sang "Ling Ling The Red Nose Reindeer", the Singapore version of "Rudolph". Ling Ling has a nose like a firecracker, she wants to play Mahjong games, wants to be famous like Raffles, and she says "OK Lah"-the Singapore slang that is said frequently around here. :)




All the classes also sang "We Wish you a Merry Christmas" in 3 languages- English, Mandarin and Malay. LOVED IT!!! :)

Thanksgiving in Singapore

Our Thanksgiving was very nice, but honestly didn't feel like Thanksgiving at all.

Everyone has work here... but Brian took the day off :)

No Macy's Thanksgiving day parade ....what used to be our traditional a.m. activity

Stores are open, business as usual....

No football on tv ....except British "football" which would be soccer to us

This year we made reservations at The American Club for dinner with friends. So there wasn't the yummy turkey smell permeating throughout the house....

I could say that it was nice to not have to be slaving away in the kitchen, but I would be lying. I truly LOVE cooking Thanksgiving dinner. But sadly, our ovens are soo stinkin tiny, it is impossible to make a big turkey in them. You would be lucky to get a turkey breast in it. :) Last year we went over to our friends house, she had a much bigger oven than I have and it was great fun. This year, we decided to try out the Club.

The dinner at the club was yummy, and they had all the traditional Thanksgiving items (and it was a HUGE spread of it). Sweet little emotional Maddie, bless her heart, started to cry as we sat down to eat. She explained that she liked Thanksgiving at home, and that it wasn't the same eating at the Club. :) I promised her a late Thanksgiving dinner when we go home for Christmas. We did have such a great time sitting with our friends The Erhardts who are moving back to the USA soon. So sad they are leaving.

After dinner at the club we drove around and looked at ALL the Christmas lights decorating our downtown area. Amazing and beautiful. Will post those photos later

Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! gobble gobble