{"id":205,"date":"2014-04-23T22:12:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T02:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supportchinaeducation\/?p=205"},"modified":"2014-04-23T22:40:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T02:40:32","slug":"day-3-report-from-2014-trip-team-leader-jackie-and-peter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/2014\/04\/23\/day-3-report-from-2014-trip-team-leader-jackie-and-peter\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 – Report from 2014 Trip Team Leaders Jackie and Peter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Day 3 – Wednesday, 4\/23<\/div>\n
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We all woke up early again today.\u00a0 All the boys went for a run and basket ball game.\u00a0 We worked out a schedule for showering so that we won’t be late for breakfast at\u00a07:00am\u00a0to arrive at the first class at\u00a08:05am.\u00a0 Today’s breakfast was porridge with “xue li hong” \uff08\u96ea\u91cc\u7ea2\uff09and stir fried rice noodle \uff08\u7092\u7c73\u7c89\uff09 for a change.\u00a0 By now all of the kids are pros in delivering their presentations and handling the classes.\u00a0 One of the teachers requested assistance on their current English unit on Toronto, Canada.\u00a0 The “Sam and Brian” team was assigned the task.\u00a0 They took the assignment seriously and prepared the lesson last night.\u00a0 It went really well and the teacher was very happy with the help they provided to the students.\u00a0 Since there are more than 20 classrooms for each grade (Gao Yi and Gao Er), it is still the\u00a0first time for most of the classes to\u00a0see our pairings, so\u00a0more\u00a0new friends are made.<\/div>\n
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There was a reason\u00a0an umbrella was a required item on the checklist for each student to pack and bring.\u00a0 The early morning was gray and cool but it started pouring in mid morning and the rain continued on.\u00a0 At lunch, we enjoyed the rice flower coated pork (mi fen rou), whole fish and\u00a0black chicken, and custurd eggs.\u00a0 Mi fen rou was the favorite for all and the dish was emptied quickly.\u00a0 Although we can’t go outside to play after lunch, it was great fun to chat with a lot more Yizhong students who are eating lunch at the dining hall today because of the rain who normally would have walked home to have lunch.\u00a0 It was so nice to see the kids\u00a0laughing and talking to each other in both Chinese and English.\u00a0 They seem to\u00a0have many common topics and interests.\u00a0 They are all teenagers after all.<\/div>\n
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The originally scheduled afternoon sports events were cancelled due to the rain.\u00a0 But we were led to the science and\u00a0technology building computer lab.\u00a0 The kids were able to get on the internet and\u00a0their e-mail and hopefully all parents have received a greeting from the kids themselves.\u00a0\u00a0 After the computer lab time, we were invited to watch a Tai Chi performance by the Yizhong teachers.\u00a0 We were impressed with the agility of the performers and fluidity of the routine.\u00a0 All of us got a Tai Chi lesson from the teachers.\u00a0 We know Tai Chi is an art form that can’ be learned in one session, but we still put out our best effort in keeping up with the teacher.\u00a0 Many pictures are taken although the kids would rather that they get deleted.<\/div>\n
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The team got treated again for dinner, courtesy of Jackie’s friends.\u00a0 After dinner, the kids prepared for the evening activity of meet & greet with the 22 scholarship recipients at Yizhong.\u00a0 They worked really hard in learning how to prenouce the recipients names in Chinese.\u00a0 We got some help from 2 local students.<\/div>\n
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The meet & greet went very well.\u00a0 Each one of our kids took under their wings 1 – 2 Yizhong students and\u00a0formed partnership.\u00a0 They\u00a0talked\u00a0to each other about their families, who they are and what they like.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the scholarship recipients has severe disability but we were fortunate to have him attend the meet & greet tonight.\u00a0 His mother is a dedicated and most loving mom I have ever met.\u00a0 In China, it is very rare to see accomodations and access ramps\u00a0that\u00a0are required\u00a0in the US for people with disability.\u00a0 So the mom had to carried the student for all activities.\u00a0 The student gave a short intro that was very moving.\u00a0 We all wished him the best in life and admired his courage.<\/div>\n
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Both our kids and Yizhong students\u00a0were able to tell the entire audience in both Chinese and English ther partners’ stories.\u00a0 Emily encouraged her partner to\u00a0write down\u00a0notes so he can looked at them when answering questions about her, and Sam wrote cues on his palm.\u00a0\u00a0Obviously talents are uncovered through the conversations and a few went on the stage to perform and showcase their talent.\u00a0 Justin, Sam and Sophia entertained us with their panio performance.\u00a0 Yizhong and our kids sang a pop song together.\u00a0 Michael showed us his dance tricks again!<\/div>\n
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It rained throughout the night..<\/div>\n
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Jackie & Peter<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 3 – Wednesday, 4\/23 We all woke up early again today.\u00a0 All the boys went for a run and basket ball game.\u00a0 We worked out a schedule for showering so that we won’t be late for breakfast at\u00a07:00am\u00a0to arrive … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}