Past Activities | com-at-uga

Here are some things we've done before and may do again at the same time as last year.

Previous events this Year-not in Chronological order:

Hayride/Bonfire/Square Dance at a local farm.

Hiking trip to Tallulah Gorge.

Tuesday November 26, 2013-Thanksgiving dinner and short program at a local Church (Living Word Baptist Church). For several years the congregation has invited our Chinese friends to join their annual Thanksgiving Potluck dinner. They provide all of the traditional food: turkey, cornbread stuffing, cranberry sauce, potatoes, vegetables, desserts and much more! It’s a feast loved each year by our Chinese friends. They also invite other internationals as well.

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Each year I like to let our Chinese friends and especially the new students know of some Christmas cultural events that take place in Athens each year. These are free concerts/programs and my wife Liz and I are singing in them.The first is the Athens Choral Society Christmas concert on Dec 5 @8 pm at Hodgson Hall in the Performing arts center on east campus near ECV commons. The event is free and no tickets are required and it will only last 1 hour. www.pac.uga.edu 230 River Rd, Athens, GA 30602 Unfortunately also on Dec 5 is the Athens Christmas parade in downtown Athens. You might be able to see some of that before coming to the concert

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You are invited to the “Lessons and Carols” program at Redeemer church on Sunday Dec. 8 from 6-8 pm. Liz and I will be singing in the choir and it’s a very nice program of readings about the Christmas story with songs from the choir and congregational singing. It’s a great Christmas cultural experience.Redeemer Church is located in downtown Athens 165 Pulaski Street | Athens, GA | 30601 at the corner of Broad St and Pulaski Streets. http://www.redeemerathens.com/about-us/our-location/.

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Other events are The Athens Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Christmas concerts on Saturday Dec. 14 @ 8 pm and Sunday Dec 15 at 3 pm at the Classic Center downtown Athens. http://athenssymphony.org/For this event, tickets are free and given out at the Classic Center box office starting 10am Dec 2. They all given out in just a couple of hours. Each person in line is allowed to get 4 tickets. However even if you can’t get one that day, they let people into the concert without tickets about 10-15 minutes before each concert starts. The last few years the auditorium has been very full. These are popular events. The concerts are a good mixture of classical and contemporary music.

CHRISTMAS PARTY DECEMBER 20 AT FAMILY HOUSING COMMUNITY ROOM 7-9 pm. We'll have music, food and games and a "White Elephant" gift exchange. For the gift exchange, bring an inexpensive gift ($1 or $2 or something you already own) that you have wrapped and put in the pile to give away!! See the sign up sheet link to indicate that you are coming https://docs.google.com/document/d/14aCNCoa0A4Bqp3Ek3ZkM-YjdB6SlvjWViR1klePd4N8/edit?usp=sharing

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Some friends of ours are helping to organize a trip to FLORIDA DEC 26- JAN 2. The first few days are at a conference with staying in homes of local friends. Then the group goes to Orlando for a few days of visiting amusement parks. for details go to: https://www.iface.org/events/florida-christmas-conference/

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COM will host another Friendship Event.An evening of Dancing and Snacks Saturday September 21 at 7:00pm at Family/Graduate Housing office 710 E Campus Rd, Athens, GA‎ This event will be “Dancing and Snacks”; we’ll share food and then I will teach some American dancing. We will provide some snacks but we hopeyou might bring some of yours as well. It’s not dinner, just some snack food.We’ll do some line dancing, both the “electric slide” and some country line dancing. We also hope to teach some Swing dancing and if time some Square or Circle dancing, if we have enough male and female to partner together. Some of these are American folk dances, some just popular dances from different time periods in our history! I think you’ll have fun. Google doc sign up sheet http://tinyurl.com/nvw8dhs

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October 5-6, 2013-Overnight trip to Perry, Ga. for the Georgia-National Fair.We are arranging for an overnight trip, and a stay in an American home the weekend of October 5-6. We will go to the Georgia National Fair in Perry, Ga. to have an afternoon/evening at the Fair and then stay in homes of our hosts. http://www.georgianationalfair.com/ It’s like a big Spring Festival event with rides, games, music, animal shows, etc. .**************************

Already in 2013-2014 school year:Friendship Dinner for new students and American hosts and volunteers with a talk on Culture Shock and Cultural Adjustment on Aug 16 @ 6:30pm at Milledge Ave Baptist Church (MABC) at 1690 S Milledge Ave Athens, GA 30605. It's a 5 minute walk from after taking the Family Housing Bus and getting off at the bus stop just by the Family Housing office, as the bus is going away from College Station Road towards Milledge Ave.