Pizza and Games

We recently had some of our international student friends over for homemade pizza and games. We had two from Thailand and two from Hong Kong. This was their first time making pizza. I should have told them to use more sauce since their pizzas were a little dry I think. It was interesting to see how all four used so little of cheese. Ryan and I think that we put light cheese on our pizza but not in comparison to them. It makes sense though as neither the Thai nor Chinese diet has much (if any) cheese and very little dairy in general.

We had a few sodas saved from a party with my ESL students. It's a very rare occasion when we drink soda, but I made sure to put them in the fridge in case any of our guests wanted some. They all wanted water with no ice, just the way I have it too. Why have a cold drink in the middle of winter anyway??

While the pizzas were cooking, we played a few rounds of Uno. The Chinese had a few extra, more intensive rules for this game that made it a little more difficult which was fun. Later we played memory with the Uno cards and Ryan showed them his favorite card trick. It was hard to find games that would work with English language learners, plus we don't have a lot to choose from. We didn't think the Newlywed game or Bible trivia would work too well! Too bad we didn't have the game Apples to Apples as that would have helped with learning some more vocabulary for them since it's basically a game of nouns and adjectives.

We want the weather to get nicer so we can take them hiking!! That'll be awhile yet though!