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Easter 2015

April 5th, 2015 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

Last week, Susan taught about Easter at our school English Corner:Easter English CornerThe students enjoyed decorating Easter Eggs:Love EC Mayday Egg Teacher EggSmile EggSusan also planned an egg hunt for the students (although there aren’t too many places to hide eggs in a classroom):Egg HuntEach egg contained some goodies and an Easter topic for them to discuss in English:GoodiesThere were 18 eggs to find, and (surprisingly) there were 18 students who attended!Easter Corner 2The foreign language department of our school also held their first official Easter party.  Among other activities, they had an Egg coloring contest (with large eggs hanging from the ceiling) and asked me to be one of the judges:?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Today was Easter Sunday, but here in China, it was also QingMingJie (tomb sweeping day).  Family members go together to clean the tombs of their ancestors (all of the white stones below are tomb markers):???????????????????????????????They often leave offerings of fake money and fruit at the tombs: ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????As we hiked today, we could hear people shouting out greetings to dead relatives and calling their children “to keep their spirits from remaining at the graveyard.”

There are many tombs on the nearby mountains, but this particular one was unique and caught our attention:???????????????????????????????No fruit or fake money was placed in front of this tomb.  And a different shout came to our minds as we walked away from here: “He is risen!”

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  • laurie

    Love this! I love the large easter eggs they are coloring. It’s interesting they are forming parties around easter. Good job on English corner, mom!

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