School Events

The ACG School has had some great student events these past few weeks. Last Thursday each class in the primary school (13 total) performed a different traditional Vietnamese Dance. Each part of the country was represented along with the specific ethnic group settled there. Clara's class performed the very dramatic rice stick dance - lots of drumbeats and flashing lights. They did an amazing job and were well choreographed.

The Middle School featured an International Day today. Parents were invited to the afternoon program. They did a great job of presenting an ecological message about how the world is all connected. We enjoyed speeches on recycling, the scarcity of fresh water, Habitat for Humanity, and two student performances: the String Zither Ensemble from the Taipei School and the Salmunori team from the Korean School.

Clara returned from her class field trip to Dalat at 4:00. They FLEW up on Monday morning, took a bus to a river, and a boat to an island campground. Day one was her least favorite - a long morning hike. The afternoon was better because she got to do abseiling (go ahead - wikipedia it - we did LOL). She describes day two as "amazing". It involved team-building activities like she did at Camp Susan Curtis with Dunn School - ropes courses, zip line, leap of faith and the like - and she got to build a raft in the afternoon! She and her team built it from 7 pieces of bamboo wood with two cross beams tied with rope. They tied big plastic jugs to the crossbeams. Then they held races - Clara's team came in second. Day three they transferred from the campground to a very nice hotel in the actual town of Dalat and did a little sightseeing at Bao Dai's Palace and the local market. We went to the Palace in August of '07 and found the architecture interesting but I'm not sure my daughter is old enough to feel the same way. The took a bus back today with several stops along the way. Silas will get his turn late in April when his class goes to Long Hoa.