Are you thinking of going on Global semester but not quite sure you want to be anywhere but home for the holidays? Here is what this yearšs twenty-eight students and leaders Mac and Jackie Gimse are doing for Thanksgiving and Christmas half-a-world away.

The Global trip flew to Hong Kong on Thanksgiving Day so they celebrated the day before. Each member of the group met up at a nice hotel in Katmandu after an eight day vacation "trekking" through Nepal. They went to a restaurant called Mikešs Breakfast Cafe and had a traditional American-style Thanksgiving buffet.

According to Gretchen Rohs, a student on the Global trip this year, "We even had pumpkin pie... it was very good! We sat outside at two long tables in a nice garden area. We said our global grace and had a fun night together. We all miss home, but we keep reminding each other that now we are family... a great big global family. It is really amazing how close we have become."

Christmas for the Global students will be held in mainland China: in Shanghai or Beijing. The students are hoping for a white Christmas. Right now they are in Hong Kong,xawhere the temperature is seventy degrees fahrenheight. On December 15, the group will attend the Nutcracker Ballet. Rohs offers, "We are all excited to get dressed up in our finest global attire and go out for a night together!" The social committee is still in the planning process for what the Global students will do for their actual Christmas meal. Undoubtedly, it will be a Christmas that these world travelers will remember for years to come.