Daniel and I are excited to be hosting two international students this year! Our school has a good-sized program, bringing in 10 - 20 international students each year from all different countries. The majority of our students are from Asian countries (Japan, China, and South Korea mainly), but we have recently started attracting more students from Europe. Daniel and I volunteered to keep two boys, one from China and one from Italy. Initially, we were a little worried about them getting along. After all, two totally different ways of life are being meshed with American culture, and then having to mesh with with another culture? It was going to be a lot. So, we came up with a game plan to try to ensure that life went as smoothly as possible for each of them, as well as for us! Both boys were able to arrive in the US early enough to recover from jet lag before the start of school. In the beginning days, we did lots of shopping trips to make sure everyone had what they needed for sch...
Daniel and I love to play games! It comes more from my side of the family than from his, so I had to introduce him to a few of my family's best games before he joined in my enthusiasm for them. Our collection has grown over the first year of our marriage quite a bit, and we are always on the lookout for a new one. For our first Thanksgiving together we started our special tradition of purchasing a game (or 2) to play on Thanksgiving Day. Last Thanksgiving we added Bananagrams and Dutch Blitz. We have about 15 games in our humble, ever expanding collection, most of them strategy games. Here is our top 5 list of our favorite games to play together: 1. Scotland Yard. This strategy game can be played with up to 6 people, so it's one we often take to friends houses. 5 detectives are racing around London to try to find and successfully capture Mr. X. Mr. X only pops up every few moves, so the detectives must work together to encircle and hopefully catch the criminal....