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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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Eleri’s making corner is always a mess – I just cleaned it up. I really need to take a before photo one of these days, but it is rather embarrassing. Her corner was ready for making the annual Leprechaun trap. The last time I was at the market, I bought 50 glue sticks so […]
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The first day of sunshine brought the laundry to the streets. The lady is holding the “tool” for putting all these clothes up high. You know you are in Shanghai…when you see laundry out drying! Average Rating: 5 […]
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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 […]
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Emersyn has become our expensive child! She takes full advantages of all the opportunities at Concordia…which is great and expensive. This school year, she will go to MUN in Kuala Lumpur, the leadership trip in the Taklimakan Desert and the dive trip in Thailand. I pay for all these trips in cash […]
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MS Students art was displayed at various places around the school. Emersyn took a painting class as an elective for semester one. Eleri and I were in the cafe on our Wednesday night before fencing when we noticed the new art work of pretzels. We chose our favorite one and talked about the various […]
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Eleri’s class has been studying magnets. The class field trip is to the Maglev, the Magnetic Levitation Train which runs to the airport, the first field trip of the year. Eleri was excited to wear her field trip shirt. The Shanghai Maglev Train or Shanghai Transrapid (上海ç£æµ®ç¤ºèŒƒè¿è¥çº¿) is a […]
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In Jinqiao, these red lanterns were hung for Chinese New Year. The lanterns were on all the trees on both sides of the street – very pretty. The first time I saw them, I didn’t have my camera. The next few times, it was raining. I only get to Jinqiao about once a week […] |