Mrs+Crawford's+Group

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===I can't tell you how excited I am!! I have been to China umpteen times before, but each trip has been very different and each school trip is with such a variety of people that it makes the place seem different anyway.===

We'll love it!!
Have you ever carved a seal? Well it is not so easy as you might think. First you have to make sure that you hold the knife properly and don't chop your fingers off...... then you have to have a mirror image of what you want to carve, that is after you have figured out the Chinese character to go on the seal. Did I mention that there is a choice of ends for the stone?

When you start carving you need to worry the stone to get an indentation, after that? Well it's easy. We all had a full complement of fingers at the end. Everybody had the character completed on their stone and most were pretty good too.

There wasn't even a cut finger! All this in a bird hide in the Xixi wetlands Park. Are we good or what then!

What another great day! We visited the Silk Museum and did our tie dye activity. I was SOOO impressed with the results. There will be some natty neckerchiefs being sported throughout DB next week! Tying those little knots in the silk was a tricky job though everyone managed pretty well. Shopping this afternoon. What an amazing variety of stuff to bargain for! Some hard bargaining going on and DBIS pupils getting into the swing of this bargaining lark, spitting out the Mandarin like real old hands. Hope you all enjoy your presents although I hear that some parents are rather hard to please and some brothers and sisters will have a choice of whether or not to accept the presents – there will be a home for them with the buyers if they don’t want to have them! We have some fabulous dancers in Year 6! What a bunch of movers they are. No hesitating there the dance floor was covered. Our hotel staff was amazed and crowded into the room to watch. It was a really great disco guys!