Here's the first video. Lots more to come. The quality of the sound isn't great, so please forgive. I hope you catch the spirit!
This video is of our primary school staff (teachers, school manager and English volunteer) playing a singing game. They were awesome, and it was a lot of fun. I am so proud of what our teachers have accomplished this year. The school is really a fun, happy place to be, and I hope this video captures a bit of that.
(If you have trouble viewing the video, I have been told it helps to download it to your computer and then play it.)
Donna
Director, Eagles Wings
Friday, September 30, 2011
First of October...
is a MAJOR holiday here. Most people get 7 days off of work...SWEET! Oh, not me.
To celebrate and show our patriotism, our COAT primary school, Xi Wang Le Yuan, had a 1st of October celebration and invited our house managers, volunteers and me to come hear them sing songs, dance and recite. Even their teachers played a singing game!
Here are a few photos. More photos and videos to come!
With a thankful heart,
Donna
Director, Eagles Wings
To celebrate and show our patriotism, our COAT primary school, Xi Wang Le Yuan, had a 1st of October celebration and invited our house managers, volunteers and me to come hear them sing songs, dance and recite. Even their teachers played a singing game!
Here are a few photos. More photos and videos to come!
Donna
Director, Eagles Wings
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
I Know It Has Been Forever....
But I hope you will forgive me when you see these faces! I had a chance to drop by Eagles Wings 5 today and just couldn't resist taking photos until my camera batteries died. (They always seem to give out in Eagles Wings 5...I wonder why!)
Here are our littlest eaglets sitting at their new "big kid" table waiting for their afternoon fruit snack. (And please don't worry about those serious expressions...I am not sure whether my foreign hair and nose or the sight of the camera is the true culprit, but there usually are lots of smiles and giggles).
Here are our littlest eaglets sitting at their new "big kid" table waiting for their afternoon fruit snack. (And please don't worry about those serious expressions...I am not sure whether my foreign hair and nose or the sight of the camera is the true culprit, but there usually are lots of smiles and giggles).
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| Our newest eaglet! |
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| Our littlest eaglet. |
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| This little guy is actually not an eaglet, though I tried to bring him home with me. But I promised his mommy I would try to get a photo. Happy Birthday! Sorry about the serious expression. :( |
Some people think I am crazy to come so far to do this job....I think I'd be crazy not to!
Donna
Director, Eagles Wings
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Field Trip!
On our way out of town (to the US for passports, visas and a family visit), we spent a few days in Beijing. My daughters and I did the same thing the last time we left Eagles Wings for the US, and we took Hong Wei, our oldest boy with us for some sightseeing. I can tell you there was a LOT of whining from the other big kids who didn't get to go! But I promised them their chance would come, and Hong Wei was only chosen because he was the oldest (eldest?). So true to my word, this time we took the two girls who live with us...YuanYuan and Liu Er. They were SO SO SO excited for the couple weeks before hand, it was fun to see their excitement for the big trip. They turned out to be great travelers and we had an awesome time. Our two Australian volunteers, Andrew and Noela, also came along to see the sights and help me keep track of the five girls! I'll let the photos tell most of the story. :)
With a thankful heart,
Donna
Director, Eagles Wings
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| Yuan Yuan on the train |
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| Andrew and Lindsay |
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| Liu Er and Noela |
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| Eating |
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| And more eating |
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| Liu Er and Yuan Yuan meet the Great Wall! |
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| Liu Er keeping the sun off |
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| Kristen and Liu Er doing a photo shoot. YuanYuan was the photographer! |
Donna
Director, Eagles Wings
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Eagles Wings 3 Children Singing for Children's Day
I haven't had much luck posting video from China, so I hope it works!
Monday, June 13, 2011
Children's Day!
Children's Day is a very special day in China...definitely bigger than Mother's Day or Father's Day. (gulp, which reminds me that I didn't call my dad yesterday! ouch!!)
There were Children's Day activities all around the city for several days leading up to June 1. The orphanage was a special focus as volunteer groups from the area came to bring gifts and celebrate the children for three or four days in a row. The Eagles Wings 3 children performed alongside some other entertainers from the community, including a belly dancer (?), a martial arts demonstration (very well done) and a group of very young wanna-be rock stars. Our kids were definitely the best! Sadly I am clueless about uploading video so you'll have to take my word for it. :( (But when they were signing along with their singing, I can tell you I was crying.)
That's not all though! Two of our little girls, XiuXiu and Gao Jing, go a private kindergarten in our neighborhood. Their school put on a BIG Children's Day program that reminded me of our Field Day events in the US. So bright and early (and hot) Zhang Ying, our translator, my 3 daughters and Gao Jing and Xiu Xiu headed out to the big park nearby. There were more than 200 kids there and at least two parents or grandparents for each kid! I will say that the number of dads there was very impressive.
We did all kinds of relay races, played with parachutes and generally got hot and sweaty, but it was a lot of fun, and I am sure a wonderful experience for the kids. Then we had ice cream while waiting for our ride home. :D
There were Children's Day activities all around the city for several days leading up to June 1. The orphanage was a special focus as volunteer groups from the area came to bring gifts and celebrate the children for three or four days in a row. The Eagles Wings 3 children performed alongside some other entertainers from the community, including a belly dancer (?), a martial arts demonstration (very well done) and a group of very young wanna-be rock stars. Our kids were definitely the best! Sadly I am clueless about uploading video so you'll have to take my word for it. :( (But when they were signing along with their singing, I can tell you I was crying.)
That's not all though! Two of our little girls, XiuXiu and Gao Jing, go a private kindergarten in our neighborhood. Their school put on a BIG Children's Day program that reminded me of our Field Day events in the US. So bright and early (and hot) Zhang Ying, our translator, my 3 daughters and Gao Jing and Xiu Xiu headed out to the big park nearby. There were more than 200 kids there and at least two parents or grandparents for each kid! I will say that the number of dads there was very impressive.
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| FGJ |
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| FXX |
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| FXX, Kristen and FGJ |
We did all kinds of relay races, played with parachutes and generally got hot and sweaty, but it was a lot of fun, and I am sure a wonderful experience for the kids. Then we had ice cream while waiting for our ride home. :D
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Operation Smile or Guess Who Has A New Lip?!
One of those contacts was a speech therapist with Operation Smile, based in Hangzhou. A very wonderful twist of fate is that Jiaozuo is this young woman's hometown! So she asked if she could come and evaluate some of our children while she was visiting family in the area. Talk about an offer too good to refuse! We were so thrilled to have her great advice as she did one-on-one speech evaluations with 15 children and then spent some time discussing speech issues and some basic therapies with our management team. We look forward to developing this relationship more in the future and also accessing some other services of Operation Smile now that we have made some contacts. All things really DO work together, don't they?
With a thankful heart,
Donna
Director, Eagles Wings
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