Project Update (II)

Project Update (II)

The Flat Stanley Club announces with pleasure that it has received parcels from three schools in three different continents: Public School 279 in Brooklyn, USA; MHOC School in Toormina, Australia; and Victoria Shanghai Academy in Hong Kong. It wishes to thank pupils and teachers at these three schools for their arduous efforts and amazing creativity in helping us learn more about your school life, culture and geographical facts that would otherwise remain unimaginable to us in Penghu. Our member students have listened with excitement to the two letters enclosed by teachers at Public School 279 and Victoria Shanghai Academy; they have also appreciated the postcards and class shots so kindly prepared by our partner schools in Brooklyn and Toormina. Photos as such always make our students feel more “connected” with a distant land that, as our project matures, attracts them to visit and traverse one day.

In particular, the Club wishes to tender its special thanks to the MHOC school in Australia: you have so meticulously matched each of our pupils with your students and produced what strikes us as 19 copies of amazingly personalised and intimate correspondence that truly touches our hearts. Pupils on our side are very excited about such letters that are exclusively addressed to them, and this experience makes them even more curious about their peers around the world. Thank you!

To reciprocate, we have also sent out our parcels to Public School 279 and Victoria Shanghai Academy on December 20, 2008. Kindly allow up to 2 weeks for international delivery, and once again please do return to our blog at http://flatstanleypenghu.blogspot.com/ for regular updates on project activities and snapshots!

Snapshots of all parcels received are available [here].

Flat Stanley Goes Online

Students read our new blog, Flat Stanley in Penghu, with excitement and curiosity. This blog epitomizes our attempts to send Flat Stanley into the cyberspace that synchronizes ideas and feedbacks from around the world. Under Ms. Chen’s instructions, pupils log onto the portal page to read different entries regarding the project and feedbacks rendered by their peers in Taiwan and beyond. Most of them also comment on the [snapshots] Ms. Chen took during the activities—it's always fun to see yourself on the Internet!
*If you would like to comment on the photos we took, please make sure you have a Yahoo e-mail account or you may register for one [here].