Holiday Greetings

[colleenk]

Happy Dragon Boat Festival everyone!

Comments

[mikailborg]

Is that the same event at the center of Barry Hughart's "Master Li" novel Eight Skilled Gentlemen?

[colleenk]

You know, I have never seen that movie. Definately a lack in my education. Perhaps you would show it to me sometime.

[saintblackangel]

I built a six-foot tall and eight-foot long 3-D dragon boat out of cardboard last year for the kids at our school to do their Chinese celebration. It held about four kids; I left the bottom off so they could walk around in it during the show.

[colleenk]

Sounds niffty!! Which grades do you teach?

[saintblackangel]

I teach them all. I run the computer lab at the school, implement all the new technology in the classrooms, and fix computers/peripherals/network problems. Every day I have every class in my room to do a reading session and a math session; the computers track their progress and adjust their problems for their ability, giving us their grade level in each subject. I just tend to do a lot of artistic stuff for the school ever since they found out I'm a decent artist. In point of fact, they never had intended for the boat to be 3-D but I was under the impression that it was supposed to be, so I actually outdid their expectations there. Sad to say that when it was all over, nobody had any use for it and I believe it got thrown out.

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