Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Christmas with FH

Of course, Christmas is never the same when you are away from your family and living in a foreign country, but this past Friday we enjoyed our second "FH Christmas."  The Food for the Hungry offices close for about 3 to 4 weeks during the Holidays.  To celebrate this long awaited break, the FH office typically plans a few special surprises for their employees.  This past Friday we participated in a day of events that jump started the Christmas vacation.

In the morning, the office hosted a "bring your child to work day" event.  In total, around 30 children attended the event which included games, a clown, songs, and competitions.  Ella joined John at work for the morning and came home with a bag full of prizes.

John and Ella ready for work! 

Ella won many of the competitions despite her lack of Spanish skills! 

Morning snack with daddy

In the afternoon John competed in the annual soccer competition between the FH staff from the various work zones.  Though he does not pride himself on soccer knowledge or skills he had a good time and held his own quite well.  Unbeknownst to him he was selected as the "striker" due to his height and potential for "headers."  Comical, considering he needed to verify exactly what those terms meant.  Though John did not score, he did have some real nice plays and even stuffed the stat sheet with a few spectacular assists.

Team Horna C'Kasa in action!  (Thank you Hope Church for providing the attire!  We wore our Cincinnati Reds jersey's)


In the evening, John and Jennie attended the FH Christmas dinner to conclude the day of events.  The highlight of the dinner was a surprise visit by an "Evangelical" Marachi band.  It was quite a way to end the evening and usher in the Christmas season.      

Our table for the evening 

The "Evangelical" Marachi band.  (They were actually pretty good.  However three songs would have been sufficient.  Nine was a little much :) )     

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