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Emersyn’s last band concert of the school year. We had her family birthday dinner at Haiku, a sushi place in Jinqiao. Emersyn now loves sushi. Jim joined us for dinner, but had to miss the concert for a work dinner – double dinner for him tonight. We arrived at […]
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It’s Concordia Idol night. Emersyn began the school year declaring she was going to play her guitar and sing for Idol. She had only been playing the guitar for three moths when she made this declaration, but she was determine. This year the performers had a “run through” after school with pizza for […]
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Concordia has a charity of the month.This year Concordia’s theme is “Serve”. Emersyn charity of choice is Baobei. Baobei means “precious childâ€. Emersyn’s home room teacher, Mr. Stone, has an adopted Baobei daughter. Baobei is an organization that provides surgeries for children with special needs. Baobei places many of these children into […]
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Grade 7 & 8 students had a fund raiser dance for Heart-to-Heart. The dance was a semi-formal dance with all funds for the Charity, Heart-to-Heart. In total teen fashion, Avery and Emersyn went to Puxi last Saturday shopping for new dresses. Mr. Nie took them as Faith and I trust him more […]
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Concordia’s Middle School Bands presented “An Evening of Music”. The music was performed by the Middle School Jazz Band, Sixth Grade Band and the Middle School Band which includes Grade 7 & 8. Each band played three songs for an hour concert to enjoy “an evening of music”. The Middle School […]
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Faith and her girls had watched American Idol, Season 8. Therefore, they were all excited to see Adam Lambert Live in Concert in Shanghai. We borrowed Faith’s disc to watch season 8 – there are hours and hours in ONE season. We had a week to watch American Idol so we skipped to the […]
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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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A light snow began on Thursday, but not cold enough as the day was both rain and snow. On Friday later afternoon, it snowed! Mr. Nie had said if it snows on Chinese New Year, it is very lucky – so it must be a lucky year. Eleri and Roxi went out on […]
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The girls were all dressed up for the Chinese New Year celebration at school. Emersyn wore a traditional Yunnan skirt. We purchased this skirt on our trip to Lijiang in 2009. Eleri had one, but she has long since outgrown it. Eleri is wearing her Chinese New Year costume from a […]
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Concordia hosted an annual conference of Model United Nations (MUN) from Thursday, Jan 17 through Saturday, Jan 19. This was the fourth conference at Concordia with over 300 visiting students from 25 schools. Emersyn was not participating in this conference, but helping as an administrative person. Model UN is an academic activity […] |