Cooking Class in English

A few more hair salon names I got from Sister Baird.  They are just so fascinating:  Hair Dagterior, Hair Saloon Joyful Abe, Hair Bum’s a bet (sorry about this one),  Hair Bun Bun, Salon de Sheep.  

I have mentioned that Lee and I have been teaching a weekly English conversations class at the church.  There are usually around 30 people who come, but there is a children's class and a beginners class, in addition to our advanced class.  So we are getting between 8 and 15 people at our class, depending on the day, and it's usually related to the weather.

We also leave work a little early on Thursdays and go to the home of a family in the ward who have a 12-year-old daughter with three friends who want to have some free English instruction.  These girls are so sweet, and often quite shy with us.  But they are getting to know us better and starting to act a little more comfortable around us.  

The girl on the left is Ai.  (Ai is the Japanese word for love.)  Ai is
the force behind the English classes.  She has invited her friends to
her home and they seem to love it.

We decided a cooking class would be fun for them.  After some thought, we decided some simple American snack foods would be easy for them to prepare and they would enjoy eating the results.  We felt it was a resounding success.  

We spread butter, then sprinkled cinnamon and sugar on
warm tortillas.  They inserted toothpicks and cut them into
serving sizes.

This is one of Ai's friends making toasted cheese sandwiches.
These were the most popular food item of the day.

If we didn't have our sweet sister missionaries with us, I don't think we'd get so far with teaching.
They help us a lot.  This is beautiful Sister Yamada, with Ai's little sister, who sits in and tries to do
everything on all of our lessons.   Isn't she darling?

Sister Takatsu is our other Sister missionary, on the left.  The ham, cheese
and avacado roll ups are all finished.  

Discussing the menu with one of the moms.

And finally, the girls are enjoying the American feast.  Included are the
pineapple, strawberry and blueberry platter, and some peanut butter/banana
sandwiches.  All of these items were new to the girls.
Lunch was topped off with root beer floats, a rare but loved treat in Japan.