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once again · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Posts: 815

It has been a year of many tragic things.as they always are....but whatever your religions I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year....no idea how much flaming I will get for this..but just wanted to wish everybody well...

kattie72 · Joined: 31 Oct 2003 Posts: 49

fat_chris · Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 3198 Location: Beijing

Cheers, once again.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

A Happy Winter Solstice to All. To the Christians amongst us " Rejoice !"

yaramaz · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 11:20 am Post subject:

Last night, my co-foreign teacher and I miraculously stumbled upon coloured fairy lights in a bargain store- the kind you string on Christmas trees and around your windows. We bought a half dozen and brought them back to the flat in a fit of holiday spirit. The other two foreigners, a married couple, had been piqued by a similar spirit and had filled their flat with boughs from trees in the garden, strung up with pine cones and little oranges. Here in Turkey, it is easy to forget that Christmas even exists because there are no constant reminders from October onwards. We realized when we saw the lights that we were barely 2 weeks till the day. We began stringing up the lights, put on Christmas carols, made some sangria, and felt immensely homesick en masse...

joe-joe · Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Posts: 100 Location: Baku, Azerbaijan

Yaramaz,

Happy 'feeling homesick'....... Sad

I was in Israel last Christmas, and you'd think there of all places it would have felt 'Christmas-sy' but it didn't, and I never got to see one camel or angel either...... Smile

) Mind you, you'd have to be insane to go to Bethlehem these days, it often occupied by uptight Israeli soldiers and angry Palestinians.

I'm going to be back home in Britain for this year and I have to say despite all the commercial glitz and other crap, it has been nice to the winter countryside, frosty dawns/dusks and some old friends and family who were long overdue a visit.

I hope that wherever you are, and whatever your particular religious persuasion, you have a great holiday! Very Happy

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

Thank you, once again!!

I hope you all have a peaceful holiday.

d

johnslat · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 12:15 pm Post subject: I'D Miilad Said ous Sana Saida

Just in case you were wondering how to say it in 350+ languages, from Acholi to Zulu:

http://www.flw.com/merry.htm#A

Nollaig Shona Dhuit
John

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

Merry Christmas everyone.

We just put up our tree and our lights outside.

been_there · Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 284 Location: 127.0.0.1

Wolf · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 1245 Location: Middle Earth

I will miss out on The Grinch and A Charlie Brown's Christmas. I really wish that I had a copy of both to show my students, especially the scene where Linus describes the "real meaning of Christmas," and where the Grinch finds out that "Christmas is not something that comes from a store."

Steiner · Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 573 Location: Hunan China

We found Charlie Brown in Xi'an, Wolf. Showed the Grinch TV special last year and will show both of them this year if we have electricity at class time, which as you know probably means we'll show neither of them.

Merry Christmas all.

dduck · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 422 Location: In the middle

�Feliz Navidades!

Iain

FGT · Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 762 Location: Turkey

Herkeze: "Noeliniz kutlu olsun ve mutlu yillar".