Our local FCC group - Families with Children from China - organized a fabulous day of cultural events - all Chinese - well, except for the Origami workshop. We began with a parade celebrating the Chinese zodiacs (year of the Monkey for Miss Jemma) and then watched a student from UCLA dance an ancient Tibetan folk dance (photos still on other camera) and then participated in various workshops. Mah Jong was by far the hands down fave - teaching us all how to count in Chinese as well. There was a lot of swag at this affair and Jemma clung on to a wand with metallic streamers and pretty much mastered the twirling of it by the end of the day. The other big highlight was meeting Karen Chau - creator of the hit, super peppy Nickelodeon show, "Ni Hao, Kai Lan!" Jemma is addicted to this super, super positive cartoon, and has picked up a small vocabulary of Chinese, and can actually recite most episodes by heart at this point (I can barely remember the feeling of a spongy brain). Finally, Daddy put his face inside the painted Kai Lan scene though Jemma was very disapproving of this new look and kept screaming, "ting! ting!" That's Chinese, for stop.
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