Wednesday nite the church had their International Carol Sing. 12 different groups got up to sing carols from their homeland. Well, technically..just one carol each(except the westerners were the only ones who kept it to just one song. :)) It was quite an evening with people from Korea, China, Australia, Indonesia, Germany, India, the Phillippines, Canada, the US, Latin America, and a couple of special songs. Mike and I sang with the US group and I also got to sing with the folks from Latin America. We sang Feliz Navidad. :) I kept teasing Jean Page about how many groups sang more than one song...we both decided that the truth was...the westerners were probably the only folks who thought it was too long anyway. :) Anyway, it was a fun evening.
Here are some pictures from our last few days. The trip to the Al Ain, the oasis city, picnic in the park with our new muslim homeschooling friends, the international carol sing...Korea and Latin America, and last but not least...that's me in the hot dog hat at the Ladies Garden Party last week. The two other ladies are also Marthas...Martha, Mattie and Marty. :)
Here are some words from one of the carols we sand at church....Sallie and I had fun singing together...
We know it won't snow in Abu Dhabi,
But we still decorate our Christmas tree,
And you can still feel the magic
From the sand dunes to the sea,
And it still feels like Christmastime to me. ...
The camels standing in the shade,
the traffic shimmers in the haze,
But it still feels like Christmas time to me.
Almost
Merry Christmas.
The Hildebrands
