Christmas Around the World

Well, As a few of you know, I've been involved with BYU's Folk Dance program all year. It's really been a lot of fun. Well, every December BYU has a program called Christmas Around the World. It's a big dance concert centered around Christmas and how it's celebrated around the world. This year is the 50th anniversary of the program so they are making a big deal out of all of it. So that means I have been rather busy with all of that. The performances are the first week in December, which is right after I get back from Thanksgiving break. So if anyone happens to be in Provo that weekend, you aught to see if you can get tickets to the show! Grant it, the cheapest tickets are like $12 and they go up from there. Also, they've been on sale for a while so I'm not sure exactly what all is left. At any rate, we had a performance last night at some 5 stake youth activity not too far from here. As part of the activity, we performed almost all of our dances that we have learned this year. So we got to perform the dance we are doing for Christmas Around the World. We are doing a Scottish dance, which means that we got all dressed up in traditional Scottish garb. So I got a picture of me in my kilt. It's great! I just thought I would share the picture and without a little bit of background the picture doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Enjoy!

想爷爷奶奶的家

I know that most of you who read my blog can't read Chinese, but whatever. We had an assignment in my Chinese class to write a short essay about a place that we love. No surprise for those who know me, I wrote about Grandma and Grandpa Adams' house. Perhaps I'll get around to posting an English translation of this within the next few days, perhaps not. Well, without further adieu...

想爷爷奶奶的家

假设你问我世界上最美的地方在何处，我只有一个地方可以提出：我爷爷奶奶的家。父母亲的家离爷爷奶奶不远，开车几分钟就到。小时候我们经常去看他们。无论是谁，大人好，小朋友也好，大家都特别喜爱拜访爷爷奶奶。

他们的农场有田，树林，山丘，一个水池，独木舟，和一个瀑布。夏天我们小孩玩得超开心。一整天躲在树林中跑来跑去。偶尔爬一棵树，偶尔建一个小堡垒。天气特别热时，我们去水池玩水或划独木舟。天黑了以后大家一起去瀑布旁边的壁炉烤肉。 没有云的话什么星座都可以看得很清楚，连银河都很明亮。

随着季节的变化，爷爷奶奶家的美也有所变。秋天来的时候整个树林的叶子便彩色，就像树林起了火似的。冬天带来雪。树林变成一个冬天奇景。春天让雪溶化，整个树林重生。夏天之绿战胜冬天之百。我期待回到那个叫做‘爷爷奶奶家’的天堂。