I've been enjoying this week post concert. The school is a madhouse as every class is eagerly trying to raise money for our Christmas project. Every year we adopt a cause and try to raise money for it; this year it is our math teacher's son who operates a children's home in Nepal.
His story is really incredible. When he was about 2 years old he got lost. He was walking the streets of Katmandu (Nepal) with his mother and lost her. He doesn't know if he was abandoned or just lost but a policeman found him hours later all alone, and he was sent to an orphanage. A family in Germany almost adopted him, even went as far as bringing him to Germany, but then decided they didn't want him. When he was 18 years old our math teacher and his wife decided they would adopt him. They brought him to the US, paid for his education and love him as a true son. He is now back in Nepal operating this children's home. He has his wife and his own children, currently look after 9 orphans. They have land purchased and want to build a home that will host 30 children without familes, and also have their own school. So that is what we are raising money for!
Kindergarten is singing Christmas carols in the lobby before and afetrschool. They are so cute, and so talented...The teacher just calls out a song and a language and away they go. "Joy to the World; English...Chinese...Korean" and the kids are so sweet. They also put on a Christmas play that was too cute to describe in writing. Ask me about it sometime.
Grade 1 had an art show with a living nativity.
Grade 2 is selling raffle tickets for a gingerbread house.
Grade 3 made a quilt and is selling raffle tickets for that.
Grade 4 made friendship bracelets.
Grade 5 made these really newspaper ornaments and went caroling. I helped with that, and you wouldn't beleive how much we made! Yesterday we made over 7000NT (about 175$CDN). I haven't got today's total yet.
Grade 6, 7, and 8 are doing things like bake sales, lemonade with dry ice in it, pictures with Santa, and buy water ballons to throw at students.
Grade 9 sold candygrams (buy a candycane to be sent to someone) and you wouldn't beleive how many they sold: 1388!!!! Isn't that an insane amount of candy canes? Of course Costco ran out, and out manager phoned every one in our city plus the one n Taichung.
Anyway, you can imagine the chaos that is our school. If you were here this is what you'd hear:
"Tickets for sale. 1 for 50, 3 for 100"
"Did you buy a bracelet" (ornanment, ticket, candygram, lemonade, etc)
"Get your picture with Santa"
"Silent Night" (in three languages)
Tomorrow is the last day, so I will post out total earned.
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