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Finals are finished and the 8th grade class has three different off-campus field trips to learn more about Shanghai. Emersyn chose the photo assignment around Shanghai. For two days, she had fun taking photos around Shanghai. Here are some of them. Starting at Concordia… The camera carrying […]
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Emersyn and her friends, Bella and Hayden, joined the children’s community theater production of Cinderella. The theater production group was Shanghai LeRan Art Centre. The girls practiced every Saturday morning from 9-12 in Jinqiao for about four months. Finally, it was show time. Two shows were held at Dulwich school theater on May 31 […]
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Emersyn’s birthday was on opening night of Cinderella. It didn’t seem like her birthday as she was out the door at 8am for the final practice and last minute preparations for opening night. We did sing her happy birthday and took her photo with the birthday dog. Emersyn is 14 and Roxi […]
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Last band concert of the year. This evening we were entertained by the 7th/8th Jazz Band, 5th-8th Beginning Band, 5th-8th Intermediate Band and 7th & 8th Concert Band. Emersyn is in the Concert Band. The Concert band played: Chinese Folk Fantasy Suite from the Hobbit I. Old Friends and […]
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Emersyn’s last Concordia Idol of her middle school career! She was going to sing a song with Bella, but Bella changed her mind and decided not to do Idol. Bella and Emersyn were too busy to get together to practice. On Sunday evening before the performance, Emersyn picked a song. She played it for […]
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Concordia has a charity of the month. This year Concordia’s theme is “Discoverâ€. Emersyn charity of choice is Baobei. Baobei means “precious childâ€. Baobei is an organization that provides surgeries for children with special needs. Baobei places many of these children into “Healing Homes†as they await adoption. Plastic water jugs are located throughout […]
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Model United Nations (MUN) is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda. The participants role-play as representing a country in a simulated session of an (committee) of the United Nations, such as the Security Council or […]
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Spring break in Shanghai. Most of our friends went to Singapore to play, but we stayed since the “money pit” is taking all of our extra funds these days. Rachael and family were in town, therefore, we planned a day out in Shanghai. We went to the Urban Planning Museum – always a good […]
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Emersyn had an assignment for language arts which was to put together a 2-5 minute video on a Genocide war. Jim remembered a paper Ernie wrote about his time in the Vietnam War. Nancy scanned the document over to Emersyn and she began her project. When she finished her video, she was at 12 […]
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Concordia’s Middle School Bands in a “Musical Journeyâ€. The music was performed by the Middle School Bands which included combined 5th-8th Grade Intermediate Band and 7th & 8th Grade Concert Band. The Intermediate Band played three songs and the Concert Band played four songs for about a 40 minute concert to enjoy the “musical […] |