It took a little bit, but as promised pictures of the schools gala!

The theme for the night was "Around the World in 80 days" and all of the pieces incorporated wood into them. The pictures that I included are not all of the dresses, but these were some of the more exquisite ones. 

I also helped out to raise money for a trip that the third year students are planning at the end of the semester to Germany by wrapping presents. It was uneventful for the most part, but one note worthy event to happened was the discovery of "American cookies"!

I honestly cannot tell you what makes them American, but they were delicious...

It has been a hectic last couple of weeks, but my class survived! Time has flown by so fast and I can't believe that I only have two and a half more months! 

I will be spending Christmas in Paris and then flying out to Poland to see a friend for new years. Trying to keep an eye on the weather, it seems to be staying steady at numbers below 10 degrees F! But have no fear, I figured it was going to be cold and decided to do a little bit of shopping. So, with the help of multiple layers of clothing and a new scarf and hat, wonderfully pictured below, I should be able to stay fairly warm.

  As you can tell, it's a rather large scarf...totally worth it!

Not much as happened recently, so I will leave you with more pictures from the gala and a promise of to many pictures from my holiday adventures for when I return! Enjoy!

The holidays are here!!A week back I had the pleasure of having an international Thanksgiving, where everyone participated in helping to feed everyone--ended up being WAY to much food! A.K.A a success! I also came up with the conclusion that potatoes are the staple of many countries. This mainly happened because we had two types of potato salad, mashed potatoes, and then the classic sweet potatoes for the meal.

Unfortunately, there will be no photos for this post--still waiting for them to come up on facebook. But another thing that was really exciting since my last post, was my school's gala. Every year the school puts on a large party for the students and people from the area. It was amazing! The crowing glory of the whole event is the fashion show, where students have worked all year to create outfits out of wood! The theme for the event was "Traveling Around the World in Eighty Days", besides the fashion show that reflected this theme, it was also seen in the food that was offered for the event. The organizing committee asked all the international students to cook something from there country--for about 100 people.

My fellow American and I decided to make chili and it was no small feat to make! The mix was consisted of about 2 kg onion, 8 kg of tomatoes, 6 kg of beans, 4kg of meat, and then the miscellaneous spices. It always baffles me when I see large amount of food being cooked. The gala was fun and ended nice an early around 2 am (see early) and when it was literally freezing outside, but it was well worth it.

Now, yet again I will tell you how busy I have been and that I am somewhat sorry for not being very consistent with these posts. Well my ridiculous excuse this time is that I have been having classes from 8/9 to 5/6 everyday this last week and will continue it through this week! This week of classes is dedicated to a business simulation, last week we started a business plan, and then there is the ever constant projects that we have to work on...I think we have about three going at the moment, but I loose track a bit.

Anyways, now that you've heard my excuses I'll stop boring you and leave you with a promise of pictures for the next post that will include a review so you know what's going on.

Happy Holidays!