San Jose Episcopal Day School

Our local tour guide in Xi’An asked us the following:
A centipede crossed a river in China. All but two of his feet got wet. Do you know why?
Write your answers as a comment on this post and we will let you know the answer tomorrow.

From Chinese Calligraphy Self-Study and Appreciation:
Calligraphy is understood in China as the art of writing a good hand with the brush. Chinese calligraphy (Brush calligraphy) is an art unique to Asian cultures. In the history of Chinese art, calligraphy has always been held in equal importance to painting. Shu (calligraphy) and […]

Ni Hao SJEDS,
Many of you have asked us about Restaurants here in China. So far we have been to several ones. You already read about our adventure at the Dim Sum restaurant in Hong Kong.
Yesterday we were taken by our Tour Guide, Mr. Li, in Shanghai to a restaurant that servers food from the Western […]

Mrs. St-Cyr felt adventurous yesterday. We ventured on our own onto the streets of Hong Kong and bravely entered a local restaurant that had come recommended by our hotel concierge. When we got there we felt that it must be a pretty good restaurant indeed, since there were many people waiting in line for […]

Hong Kong has some amazing buildings. Most of the skyscrapers are elegant shaped, skinny, and shinning buildings. They are beautiful to look at. In the city, before a company builds any building a Feng Shui Master has to approve the plans.
Legend has it that a dragon lives on the hillside of Hong Kong. When this […]

Here is a picture of one of the many taxis that are buzzing around Hong Kong. Most of them are the color red. Can you see the driver on the right side of the car?
Ms. Barnwell’s class was the first class to respond with the reason for that. Way to go third graders!!!! Since Hong […]