An early Christmas present.

Internet virtually none existent,. have had a lovely day watching the kids make their New Year's Eve decorations which are the same as our Christmas decorations. I have been given a Christmas present, a lovely blue wrap, to replace my old one. That is really kind. The kids have all been practicing and although they all need a huge amount of work it is beginning to come together puppet plays, dances and everyone has learned some of Jingle Bells. I worked a bit more today as the hope is that I can get to Bishkek on Thursday and travel to a place called Talas, where my colleague Alice works as that branch of Bilimkana will open officially on Saturday.  I  have pictures but internet too bad to upload anything.  The students have been very enterprising. Last week I played some of them jingle bells and Can't Buy me Love on You Tube, they recorded them onto their phones, then looked up a version on their phones, and can now sing them and read the words at the same time. The acoustics seem to be good in the new building and Can't Buy Me Love sounds very good when sung by them. The group whose English is the best recorded and edited in class.