Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Welcoming in the year of the dragon

Well I haven't had the most eventful of weeks but it has been good all the same, with lots of time to do domesticated things like make soup and toad in the hole for Sarah and Stuart so they could experience some British cuisine!

It's been an interesting couple of weeks at school. Children did some great work last week to celebrate Martin Luther King Day and thought about their own dreams for a better world, then yesterday marked the start of Chinese New Year so we had celebrations in class. One of the parents of a boy in my class was born in Vietnam and so he came to tell us about his childhood memories of New Year celebrations. It was great. As usual I was like a big kid and had more questions than them. He brought all of the kids some 'lucky money' in a red envelope as is tradition but told us that he had spoken to his parents and they had said "How much are you putting in each?" When he replied "a dollar bill", they told him that odd numbers were bad luck and he had to put in 2...All of the kids went home richer yesterday after wishing him a long and happy life! We also did crafts, ate lots of snacks with chopsticks and of course had fortune cookies. Mine disappointingly told me "an apple a day, keeps the doctor away".
To make up for my lack of news, thought you might be interested to find out what the crime rate is like round here. Each week, the local paper has a section called "Police beat" where you can catch up on all the goings on. Here are some highlights:

In Cumberland
Reveille gone wrong
1/15 at 6:53am A person walking on Drowne Road reported hearing a blaring vehicle horn that wouldn't stop. It turned out that the horn came from a school bus at the nearby bus garage. The horn malfunctioned due to the cold.

In Freeport
Romantic late night shopping spree?
1/14 at 2:17am An employee of L.L.Bean contacted police to request assistance removing  two people from the Main street store. The employee reported seeing a man and a woman go into the men's bathroom together. When the employee followed them in, they were reportedly caught in "a romantic interlude." Police found the two people on the Bean's campus and called a taxi for them to return to Brunswick.

In Yarmouth
Spell chec
1/9 at 1:40pm Police were notified of a four-letter word painted in orange on a storage facility near the Royal River Park on East Street. The four-letter word was reportedly spelled with only three letters, the letter k was missing.

Worrying stuff!

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