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King’s Omelets <
10711 NE Halsey St

Join Us for Yummy Food!

on Saturday 11/22/08 from 9am-2pm

All gratuities will be donated to support us.

Enjoy a great breakfast or brunch and enjoy the clean tables and friendly service provided by your 8th grade students!

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A standing ovation to all of you for pulling off an incredibly powerful learning experience! Bringing the CRR to fruition required the hard work, patience and understanding of so many.  Looking forward to hearing the many stories.

Welcome Back and congratualations,

Michael

Michael Bacon
Immersion Education Coordinator
ESL/Bilingual Program @ Roosevelt HS
6941 N. Central
Portland, OR 97203
503-916-2000 ext. 1493
Fax: 503-916-2429

 Dear CRR students, chaperones, and families,

 Dear CRR students, chaperones, and families,

Greetings from Kobe, Japan!

I want to thank all of you helping make the first-ever CRR to Suzhou a smashing success and setting the bar to even higher expectations. In the two short weeks in China, the students demonstrated dramatic progress not only in language skills, but also in poise, confidence, cultural sensitivity, and personal growth.  On the last day in Suzhou when I accompanied a group of our students to the high school to interview Chinese students, my heart swelled with pride whenever I heard the Chinese students whisper among themselves at how fluent our students sounded in Chinese. From the first days navigating the buses in Suzhou to the last-minute passport panic in Shanghai, the CRR to Suzhou was trully one of my most rewarding experiences as a teacher. I am extremely proud of all of our students, and as parents you should be too.

Kojo

May 23, 08

 Dear CRR students, Chaperons and families,

On behalf of the CRR team, I wish to thank all of you for making this CRR trip such a memorable, fun and educational experience. You are PHENOMENAL!  I’ve learned so much from you and about you during this trip!  What a great feeling to know that we all have made it back in one piece!!!

May I remind you that the Capstone Presentation is going to happen on June 5th! I will let you know in more details when and where it will take place next week. As many of you will be gone to Ashland next week, you will miss out three days of class time, time is thus running out on us.  Let’s work hard on making a super nice delivery during this Capstone Presentation. Many students and Parents have already expressed how much they look forward to hearing  and seeing our wonderful experiences in China!

Please note that the inquiry projects will be done in your own time. Ms. Vandam and Woodie have set aside display boards for you to use. Please come and pick it up from them. Please let us know should you need any help compiling and interpreting your data.

As we had discussed on the trip, the Powerpoint Presentations will fall into the five categories below.  For those of you who have taken pictures that portray those topics (see list below), please submit them to the student in charge at your earliest convenience so that we can have a head start!.   Please let me know if I can be of a support to you in any way!

Enjoy your home sweet home!!!  Happy Memorial Weekend!

Ms. Bee

Here are the questions:  (I will make copies of your input from the notebooks that were recorded by your Chaperons, and will hand them to you in class on Tuesday)

1. What did you see / touch / feel / smell / hear in China?  Give specific examples.
Anthony Uttke  hockeymomx2@comcast.net

2.What was memorable / what did you learn about each field study destination?
Corrina Chow   mrush.room.china@gmail.com    /    wkc2822@aol.com

3. What is something positive that you will tell your friends and family when you return home?  / What part of China are as you expected and which part of the trip changed your perception of China? Is it as you imagined?
Ben Dovale   bendovale@gmail.com

4.What are the cultural differences and similarities between your host family and your family in Portland?
Emma Ive ivie.home@earthlink.net

5.What are your impression of Lida Middle School and Suzhou Experiemental Elemenary?  hat surprised you, what impressed you, how ere the schools different from Hosford and Woodstock, etc.?
Vickie Ngo    nhuraymond@yahoo.com

anthony: wow! su zhou is fascinating! it’s awesome in china noone cares about how they drive and the bathrooms are hdeous and the food is all chinese. tong li was awesome i bough a lot of things there and im gettin good at hagglin…my host guy is really tite,his english name is teddy and he reminds me alot of hai ming. My birthday was kool! kus i wore this hat and i ate fish and a cake. well g2g bye yall homies jk.

i am a mormon. but i tried tea. i hated it. but that’s just my opinion. and anthony’s.

my host family is soooo nice! they made a really yummy and normal breakfast. i had yams and oatmeal and pumpkin and beans and orange juice. they gave me the entire upstairs, plus a gigantic bed.

i love going on the field studies with my group. they are all so nice and i love them. even anthony. my chaperone is ms. mac and she’s pretty much the BEST!!

china is allright. its a lot like what i thought it would be. its very hot here now and the field studies are pretty interesting. im getting a little tired from waking up early and having long days out walking around. my group is great, mrs. mac is pretty awesome. i kind of just want to go home now i think i have had just enough china now. but im staying with my homestay family and my person is really nice. i have my own room and bathroom. the food this morning with them was good. not too weird. her grandmother was very nice, but she encourages me to eat a lot haha.

I really have been having fun in China. It’s a totally different experience without my family members. I get to interact with other students. I love my host family. They are so nice to me and they like to ask me a lot of questions. So far I liked doing the field studies but I wish that they weren’t far away. My favorite field study so far is Tong Li because there was a nice view. I love how my small group works together to accomplish things. I really enjoyed riding the boats and the Petit-cabs with my groups. Although I was separated from my group at the Subway I really enjoyed China!