I am beginning to believe it is December, and that Christmas is just around the corner......it has taken quite a lot to convince me, such as reading a daily advent Bible reading, making homemade mince meat (even though I haven't got the right spices, it still seems pretty good), and decorating a tree. We found a very dusty tree that we were able to use, the Brazilians think we're a little strange, as culturally the Christians don't have trees to celebrate Christmas. We also made lots of origami decorations.
Today we have had our closing off of the year fun event for all of the groups, it went very well as the children were allowed free choice of activities (I hope to post some photos soon). They had a great time and now we spend our time before our holiday doing practical work and helping out at some of the houses that are desperately short staffed.