No Chris this Christmas

Last Christmas was the first one I ever spent without my sister Lauren because she was in Seoul.  This year I join my sister in Seoul, and our parents have made the journey to celebrate with us.  My brother Chris did not join us.  It will be the first time in my life that I won't be with him on Christmas Day.  I am sorry for that.  But as a shout out to my bro, you should check out this short film that he wrote and acted in:

Charity from Alex Delia on Vimeo.

12 Days of Christmas

This is not a rip-off of my sister and brother-in-law's blog.  


I asked a first grade class to write their own lyrics for the song "Twelve Days of Christmas".  The students radiated with excitement at the thought of writing their own song.  I didn't think it would be too hard of an assignment, but one over-achiever in the class informed me that she spent 5 hours working on her song.  Here is her version sans all the verses and her spelling and grammar errors:

On the First Day of School

On the first day of School

My true love sent to me:

An apple in my heart,

Two dancing sands,

Three lovely teachers, 

(she told me that those teachers were Mr. Gilmore, Mr. Haws and Mrs. Haws)

Four little friends,

Five brown desks,

Six smiling books,

Seven lunch boxes,

Eight sparking windows,

Nine dreaming pencils,

Ten flying butterflies,

Eleven roses of Sharon,

And

Twelve good-bye bellssss.

I'm not sure why I decided to share this.  The little girl is just super cute.  She was really proud of her song yet too embarrassed to sing it along to the tune in front of the class, so old Mr. Gilmore gave his vocal cords a stretch with this new classic.