Christmas break recap

This Christmas break was a busy time for me because I not only had to be working on my essay that is 60% of my grade for the module I took this past semester, I also had a few mini trips planned. The first trip was a 3-day trip to Manchester city with 8 other Malaysian friends.
In Manchester, we visited the City Art gallery,

the Christmas market outside of Arndale Mall,
the Old Trafford Stadium, home of Manchester United football team,

   and a nice breakfast place called Koffee Pot on our last day there.

After a few days of staying home and working hard on the assignment, it's time to go spend Christmas in Darlington.

On the train to Darlington.

Good food, warmth of a home, and good company. It was a relaxing and restful time, just what I needed. On Christmas morning, we went to church and sang carols to celebrate the birth of our Saviour who came to earth to give us life eternal. Christmas dinner was a spread of goodies including lamb shank stew, mashed sweet potato and carrots, roast chicken, and our homemade mille crepes for dessert. After dinner we exchanged gifts and had fun seeing what each other got.

After Darlington was York before I headed to a 5-day year end camp for Chinese students in Europe.

The camp was a wonderful time of sharing, listening to others' life stories, witnessing God's amazing power in changing lives, getting to know new friends, re-learning spiritual truths and habits, learning how to be a servant, experiencing God's love, and being revived/prepared to start 2013 with joy and purpose.

"Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord."

1 Corinthians 1:7-9 

Have a great 2013 everyone!