Today at school we celebrated Chinese New Year. A Lion dancer comes like the one pictured above-this is not our school! i think most americans like me think it is a dragon but it is called a lion but is actually made up of many animal parts like the horn of a rhino, the ears of a rabbit, a hard head like a turtle, eyes of a dragon, scales of a fish and stripes and a mouth like a lion or tiger. It is really cool this huge lion comes and 2 people are inside making it dance and crawl around. the music is a giant drum, tambourines and a gong, i got to sit right by the drum, lucky me. the kids love it, they are able to "feed" it red envelopes and get a good luck new years sign in return. They always put the new teachers up there from the mainland so they can experience it, the teacher ,pam i work with got chased all over the cafe by the lion. the kids were wildlly screaming with joy. i didn't have my camera with me, i was so dissapointed but hopefully you can get the idea. Gong Hei Fat Choy!!
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Kung hei fat choi to you too! Hey, did you see that car on fire by your house? I saw a lot of black smoke in the area and wanted to be niele so we drove up to see it. We saw the Firefighters trying to put it out.
I don't think you spelled it wrong. I see it spelled by both ways. Anyway, my son was talking about all the excitment at school that day. I'm glad they did that for the kids!
great pic! i really get a feel for the event. looks like a great photo-journalist picture - one that tells a story. and why are all those people wearing pants and not shorts living in hawaii? probably the air conditioning in the mall warrants it, huh? i'll trade - any day!
hi kelly,
i'm sorry about my post - i was trying to quickly respond to everyone's posts and i must have mis-read this one. oops! maybe i should get rid of facebook - i'm finding i just don't have the time to keep track of everyone, plus blog, plus email. maybe i need to quit my job so i can do this full-time...haha!
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