Stockings!

You know, we have some pretty strange holiday traditions. Usually we don't think about them, they are just traditions. But when you are faced with trying to explain them to another culture... well, the results can be interesting to say the least.

An example?
Christmas Stockings...picture it in your head. As Westerners we all know what a stocking looks like, but now try to translate that into Chinese. hmmm... socks!

Some of Jon's students got together and gave him a gift of Christmas stockings. I thought it was great!
They tried to find smaller socks for the kids but could not. Liam and Hallie can wear theirs but Eryn's feet are still too small.
Oh, yeah, they put candy in the socks too!


Another example along the same line is this picture. I noticed something odd about this mannequin. Can you spot it?



here is a closer look:




Yep! Those are stockings!

Makes sense to me!