1. June 2010 A Place of Possibilities Principals Word 2 Students from Granby 7 End of Year Report 3 Students Desk 12 Awards 5 Fathers Day Gift 14 Mt. Snow Skip Trip 2010 6 Comic 16 1 Sundays June 2010 www.cls-ct.org

2. Principals Word Two more classes to go and you will be done! skills. With her help and support, I was able My husband is counting down the days before I to cut the learning curve. I want to thank the step down from the Principal position. He cant Education Committee members for their wait to have me back on Sundays and doesnt support and help making things happen; have to help me chugging Chinese Schools without them, we would not have these great stuffs around. events and activities. Thanks to our devoted and dedicated teachers for making learning Chinese These two years have been a wonderful language and culture a lot easier and fun for experience for me. I have learned a lot from this our students. Thanks to our generous donors! special position and met a lot of friends. The help With these donations, the school can continue and support that I have received from the Board, offering affordable tuitions and special activities. Education Committee, teachers, and parents But last of all, the school would not have been was amazing. Planning and working on school here without the work of our Chairwoman, Dr. matters seem just like a rhythm everyone just Shyling Lee. Shyling helped establishing the came in and helped to get things done! school, securing Trinity classrooms & facilities, Looking back, I can see how these two years setting up the school 501 (3) non-profit status, helped me grow and mature. Just comparing and the long-term structure for the school. Many the Chinese New Year celebrations we had for heartfelt thanks to our volunteers, parents, and the last two years. We gathered suggestions, friends all the unsung heroes at Chinese complaints, and ideas from the first year to Language School of Greater Hartford! improve the program, the food serving, seating, Summer is coming! My term as the Principal is and the games on the second year. We had coming to an end! I wish everyone a wonderful more than 400 students, parents, friends, and and safe summer vacation! guests joining us and we had a good time. This is the kind of spirit our Education Committee Sincerely yours, members have been sharing with me we are Shumei not perfect, but we are willing to do whatever it takes to make it better every time. I believe it is this spirit that keeps the school flourishing -- We have stable enrollment, improved curriculum, new PTO, parent social and activities (ski trip, food tasting event and A Dong trip) for the last two years. (If you missed these activities, please make sure you join next year They are a lot of fun!) I believe with the leadership of incoming Principal, Wen-Lin Su, the school will continue flourishing and many more good improvements will come. My special thank to my mentor, Jung-Jung Su for guiding me and advising me with her experiences and her exceptional organization 2 Sundays June 2010

3. Principals Word (continued) 400 -- -- ( ) 5-31-10 End Lee Year Report By Shyling of Dear Members of the CLS Community, The quality of teaching has improved because of the collaborative effort between the Educational The summer is soon to begin and the classes are Committee and the teachers; the creation of the coming to the end. We are looking forward to a new post of PTA Coordinator has resulted in break from the routine of coming to CLS every more parental participation in school activities. Sunday for the last 10 months. It is great that The visibility of our school has increased with the every summer we get a chance to break out from promotion effort from the staff and the Board, the serious learning so we will be back in the fall including some word-of-mouth news by many refreshed and reenergized. parents of our students. Over all, I feel we have Naturally this is the time to reflect on our work. truly become a big family. Every time when I visit We have made a lot of progress in many aspects - the school, I feel the atmosphere is filled with (continued on page 4) 3 Sundays June 2010

4. friendliness, joy and animation. up in these years. And I know they will continue to help out when their schedules allow. On June So our children are making progress in learning 1st, the Board held the annual meeting, Ms. Jung Chinese and we get along wonderfully. But this Jung Su and Mr. Adam Arnold were elected to is not the final goal. I hope in the near future take the two vacancies. Welcome, Jung Jung and CLS will become an elite weekend school for Adam. I look forward to working with you. learning Chinese. I hope to develop CLS so our classes will be competitively sought after in the In regards to our financial heath, the tuition Hartford community because of an excellent revenue for this academic year still has a shortfall academic curriculum, creative cultural program, of an amount similar to the previous two years. diversified student body, exceptional teachers, But because of our vigorous fundraising activities and enthusiastic staff. This requires everyone and many generous donations, we have raised to do a little more to get there. And it is an almost $20,000.00 this year to fill the hole. achievable goal! Again, our staff do not get paid. Often they dont even ask for reimbursements for the expenses. The end of a school year is also the time to They are also thrifty in doing purchases for change guards. I want to thank our principal, CLS. Yet we still have a shortfall. One can easily Ms. Shumei Chu, for her dedication these last deduce that CLS education is a good buy. We two years. The principal is the most burdensome do not wish to raise the tuition if we dont have post within the school structure. Remember, like to. Now I am asking you to help keep the tuition all other CLS staff members, the principal is affordable for everyone without costing you extra not paid. Her only reward is seeing the progress money. How can this work? of the school and development of the children. In addition to proven capability, one has to be If you pledge to give United Way a donation at highly selfless and altruistic to be willing to work, please designate CLS to be the agency serve as principal. Two years is a lot of time to receiving your donation by writing our school give. It is not reasonable to expect any one in name on the pledge card. There are three donors this position to stay on for a third year. That is who did this last November and we are receiving why the term of the principal is only two years. their donations in the current year. We have So Shumei will have a more relaxed year to contacted United Way and asked to be on their come. But she will stay within the Education list of agencies. The response is that they will Committee as an advisor to the new principal. not expand the list due to the financial crunch in recent years. But they confirmed that donors Fortunately, we have another selfless and only need to write in the name of their favorite altruistic person in line to take Shumeis place. charity. United Way will honor the donors wish. Ms. Wen-Lin Su has taught at CLS for many I know you are willing to do this for CLS. We years and has been the vice principal for the last will send out a message again this fall when the three years. Wen-Lin will be at the helm starting United Way Campaign is getting close. For now in July. Please give Wen-Lin your support and please remember this action is vital to CLS. If assistance. most of you designate your contribution to CLS, I also want to thank Mr. Simon Su and Mr. not only will our financial hole disappear, but Kuo-Wei Chi for having served the Board in also a nest egg may be in the making for the the last three years. They have decided to step future. down from their positions on the Board to bring Enjoy the break. I look forward to seeing you in in new members. I appreciate their dedication the fall refreshed and energized. and willingness to join the Board when we had many new challenges. My sincere thanks to their Shyling Lee, Chairman, Board of Trustees efforts in carrying out the tasks the board took 4 Sundays June 2010

5. Awards ACS Annual Chinese Culture Poster Design Competition (4th Place) Michelle Tsun Tony Yang Eric Wang Elaine Tsun Audrey Lai Alumni Award Keith Lee ACS Annual Chinese Language ACS Excellent Teacher Certificate Speech Competition (4th Place) Mei Yen, Yeh Caterina Wang Wen-Te, Wu Samantha Tsun Li Jun, Cheng ACS Student Honor Society for Retired Teachers Award outstanding academic achievement Ying Ying, Lee Patrick Lau Marilyn Guerrera Hai Hua Scholarship for outstanding Retired Education Committee academic achievement Award Victoria Tran Man Ling, Tang Yea Mey, Lu Parent Volunteer Of The Year Li-Yun, Hsu Joe Tsun Jung Jung, Su Congratulations to Mrs. Wen-Lin Su (), our new principal of 2010 -2012. 5 Sundays June 2010

6. Mt. Snow Skip Trip 2010 by Adam Arnold During the New Year vacation 2010, a group Lodge and found it to be an excellent value. of three families from the Chinese Language The room was clean, the staff was friendly, and School of Hartford went to Mt. Snow for a they had a large hot tub which was a popular three-day ski/snowboard trip. The idea was destination! The only downside is that the hatched by Meiky Huang, who spends a great Lodge caters to the college crowd, so if anyone deal of her winter there with her husband and is interested in a more family-oriented inn, there kids, and also volunteers as an Ambassador for are a number of options in the area. One other the resort. Mt. Snow is an excellent choice for a possibility is to rent a large house or townhouse local ski trip because it is fairly close (under two which can accommodate up to five families. If hour drive) and it is a large mountain with quite there is sufficient interest next year, we will try to a variety of terrain. set this up in advance. We are hoping to make this an annual event! We were aided by Mother Nature with an eight inch dumping of powder prior to our arrival. The first day of the trip (New Years Day) the temperatures were fairly moderate and we even got some sun. For dinner, Meiky and her husband met up with us at a local Chinese restaurant. The place was very crowded and for good reasonthe food was excellent. On day two, the weather turned colder as the wind began to pick up considerably. We also were greeted with another seven inches of new snow. Although most went downhill skiing, there was a group that went out on their cross-country skis. Apparently, the XC trails were in excellent shape. By the final day the conditions turned downright Arctic. The wind was howling at over 40 mph and the temperature was well below zero. Only one family was brave enough to venture out in this weather. As a matter of fact, most of the mountain was closed due to the wind. By that time however, everyone had gotten their fill of skiing and were ready to go home. I think it is fair to say that everyone had a wonderful time. I would like to personally thank all the families that participated and Meiky, for all her help in setting this up. Since this was our first trip to Mt. Snow, I was not familiar with the accommodations. We stayed at the Snow Lake 6 Sundays June 2010

7. Students from Granby Memorial High School Attending a Chinese New Year the performances, including my own. After the Celebration performances there were activities to participate in and food to eat, but my mom and I had to by Hannah Seger leave before all of that. It was an interesting On Sunday, February 7th I attended a Chinese experience. New Year celebration with my Chinese II classmates. It took place at the Vernon Center of I am attending a Chinese New Year Trinity College. We watched many entertaining Celebration performances put on by other groups of kids; by Sara Miltenberger including dancing and singing. Our class also The Chinese New Year Experience at Trinity performed. First we said a poem about the new College this year with my Chinese class year. Then we did a fashion show displaying was really quite unforgettable. The friendly Chinese outfits worn by emperors, scholars, people, the delicious food and the wonderful students, and more. We each got to show off entertainment provided by the students of our outfit and announce what someone else was the Chinese Language School was really a wearing. There were lots of people watching, treat. I really enjoyed listening and learning especially little kids. A lot parents came to watch (continued on page 8) 7 Sundays June 2010

8. Students from Granby Memorial High School (continued) from the other students that performed. My and lo mein. My favorite food we had were the favorite performances were the Ribbon Dance, dumplings. As we were eating, there were games performed by the CLS Chinese Advanced Dance that the younger children could play. I saw many Students and Little Lion Dance & Singing Two different Chinese customs as well. Also, from Tigers performed by CLS Preschool students. It doing our performance, I learned a lot about how is so neat that these students are learning about the Chinese dressed in ancient times. We were their family history and the Chinese language so very fortunate to be able to wear the clothes that young. I also enjoyed the MC very much because royalty would have one worn. I was surprised he was very entertaining and funny. that I understood some of what was being said by the hosts. I was very proud of our schools performance because we had practiced many times and really I think that Chinese New Year is a great wanted to make Su Lao Shi very proud and I celebration. There are many traditions that think we succeeded. Our costumes were very are carried out each year that have been used beautiful and during the performance, we spoke for many years. Each generation keeps these with confidence of our traditional clothing traditions going on so that the Chinese culture and history of the Chinese people. Many will be preserved. Someday, I would like to go strangers came up to me later on, telling me our to China while the New Years celebration is performance was fantastic and they were very going on so I impressed that we were only Level 2 students, can be a part of who had obviously accomplished a lot. it. If I cannot, I would like to go I really enjoyed performing at the Chinese to Chinatown in New Year Celebration and hope that next New York City year, we can go again and continue to impress to join in their the Chinese Language School Community. celebration. It We have come a long way and will only would be a great continue to better our speaking, reading and opportunity to see listening skills. Our Chinese abilities will all of the traditions only improve and hopefully next year we will that we learned attend with a larger class. about first hand. I Am Attending a Chinese New From going to the Year Celebration Chinese New Year Celebration, I learned a lot by Daniel Chapple about Chinese culture and New Years traditions. During the Chinese New Year Celebration, we I would like to be a part of this again or saw many performances that showed different something similar if we can. I am very happy that aspects of Chinese culture. There were a wide we were able to participate in this celebration. I range of performances including singing, am especially happy that we got to borrow the dancing, and skits. From going to the celebration, clothes that we wore. There were very special and I learned a lot about traditions carried out during it is something I would probably not have gotten the Chinese New Year such as the exchange of a chance to do. I learned a lot from attending the red envelopes with money in them. After the Chinese New Year Celebration and am happy we performances, we ate foods eaten during the could perform in it. Chinese New Year. The food included dumplings (continued on page 9) 8 Sundays June 2010

9. Students from Granby Memorial High School (continued) Chinese New Year Celebration In the end, all of our hard work paid off and I by Chasya Dorenkamp thought our performance went really well. Last weekend I went to a Chinese New Year I hope future GMHS classes can participate in Festival in Hartford. I really enjoyed the music this celebration because it was a lot of fun and I and performances and food. My favorite part was learned a lot about the Chinese culture. Seeing doing the fashion show. everyone come together to share a common heritage results in an unforgettable and magical A lot of the festival was in Chinese. I understood experience. a lot of what was being said and it made me happy. Our class got to see five performances I am Attending a Chinese New Year before we went to get ready for our part of the Celebration performance. We dressed in Chinese clothing. I wore a green Chinese dress. The whole class by Becca Smith looked very good and spoke their lines well. I hope that throughout my life I can After our part of the festival, we got to go back continuously enrich my life with learning and and watch the rest of the performances. My submerging myself among different cultures. favorite performance besides our own was Last weekend I was able to participate in a the ribbon dance. The colors and costumes were Chinese New Year Celebration at Trinity beautiful. Their dance was very well College with Granbys Chinese rehearsed. Afterwards, I was very 2 students. Along with our hungry. The food they served at the performance demonstrating festive was very good. I had chow traditional Chinese costumes mien, a pork dumpling, an egg roll, there were a variety of acts and a red bean cake. I ate it all. including ribbon dances, songs, The Chinese New Year Festival was so dances, and more. Having much fun! I will definitely want to go never experienced the Chinese next year. Hopefully I will then know New Year first hand, it was a lot more Chinese than I do now. I definitely an entertaining, really love the Chinese culture and exciting, and fun afternoon. delicious food! When I first walked through the doors into the celebration there was an Chinese New Year Celebration overwhelming array of red and gold mixed by Victoria Galarneau throughout the entire room. Traditionally you Students, ranging from elementary to high might think red means anger or passion, but in school age, gathered at Trinity College to China especially during the New Year red and celebrate the Chinese New Year on February gold symbolize happiness and wealth. Everyone 7th, 2010. Various performances took place, in the room was bubbling with excitement and including singing, dancing, and skits; all relating the walls were adorned with decorations. I found to traditional Chinese culture and language. my seat and waited for further instructions. This celebration was made possible by the CLS, Our Chinese II class performed a fashion show. and consisted of different groups of students I felt very prepared because of multiple run and teachers performing and teaching different throughs and much class time spent practicing. (continued on page 10) 9 Sundays June 2010

10. Students from Granby Memorial High School (continued) aspects of the Chinese culture. For example, my interesting. In Chinese ribbon dancing, many class put on a fashion show modeling Chinese dancers use long colorful ribbons to portray clothes representing different positions in different movements of wind and ancient Chinese history. Another fun part water. All of the dances at Trinity were of the afternoon was the red envelopes! elegant and beautiful and they were full Red envelopes symbolize good luck and are of rich cultural history. meant to ward off evil spirits. Each of us Because I enjoyed this years Chinese were fortunate enough to receive one! The New Year celebration at Trinity rest of the day was enlightening, fun, and full College, I hope to go again next year. of culture. The performances were all fun to watch I am glad that I had the opportunity and the Chinese food at the end of the to partake in this Chinese New Year celebration was also very good. It was Celebration and I hope that I can continue also exciting to do our Chinese fashion learning and experiencing Chinese traditions. show and perform on stage in front of I learned a lot and so did my family! everyone. I hope that our performance was also informational for everyone in Chinese New Year Celebration the audience. It was a good learning by Marieta Jedamanova experience as well as a fun activity The Chinese New Year is the most important which I hope to go back to over the holiday in the Chinese Lunar Calendar. It years. lasts for fifteen days and every day there is a Chinese New Year Celebration special activity, including worshiping the gods and families reuniting. Every year is named after Response a different animal. There are twelve animals in by Wesley Lata total: The rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, At the Chinese Celebration there were many horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. 2010 people, and a lot of culture all bound to one is the year of the tiger. At the Chinese New Year room. In that single room held festivities I have celebration at Trinity College, we celebrated the never seen before, Including the Tiger Dance, year of the tiger by performing many different Singing, and even tongue twisters. I saw people Chinese cultural activities. Some include the I knew; I even got to see my last years Chinese Lion Dance and the famous Chinese Ribbon teacher Kao Lao Shi, along with some new Dance. people. The celebration at Trinity College was a great What I enjoyed the most of the Chinese New learning experience for me. Our presentation Year celebration was the positive attitude given taught me about the ancient Chinese culture and by all the people. My father had met up with an the costumes that were worn by the Emperor old friend while at the celebration. I was stunned and Empress of the Han Dynasty. I also learned at the fact that everyone was given a whole lot about the Lion Dance in which people dress up of respect, and then those giving the equivalent in lion costumes and one person controls the back to that person, and the next. I thought that back of the lion while another person controls the Chinese New Year Celebration was a lot of the front. While dancing, they imitate a lions fun, because there was a lot of enthusiasm put movements. The Ribbon Dance was also very into it. (continued on page 11) 10 Sundays June 2010

11. Students from Granby Memorial High School (continued) In conclusion my over all favorite aspect of desired to speak or write Chinese. the Chinese New Year Celebration, was the When the last of those for whom the Chinese enthusiasm and the effort. The Effort was the language was uninteresting left the class, our most obvious part of the whole event, a lot number had decreased to about 15 students. of time was put into such an event therefore it deserves reconigition. The enthusiasm was However, the quick-paced nature of the class did the best a lot of laughter caught my attention not only discourage those that took it on a whim: and how it brought people together. Over all I on the contrary, it proved greatly beneficial thought the Celebration is definitely something to those genuinely interested in the subject. to look forward to. Within a single year of learning the language, the remaining students learned the equivalent of Thank you Su Lao Shi what might be taught in two years in a French My Chinese learning experience or Spanish course. Little more can be said of the by Andrew Carroll first year of Mandarin Chinese at GMHS than this: it was a huge success. A little less than two years ago, I signed up to take Mandarin Chinese I in my Freshman year A number of students, including myself, opted to of high school. I did not expect to actually be continue to Chinese II, but unfortunately, there able to take the class as a ninth-grade student, were too few applicants from the middle school due to its immense popularity. However, to my to offer Chinese I again. pleasant surprise, the schedule I received at the My personal experience with learning the end of eighth-grade revealed that language has been plagued with difficulty. I had, indeed, been selected to My effort, both last year and this year, has participate in what would become been inconsistent in the class; accordingly, the first Chinese course ever to be my understanding of the language is taught at Granby Memorial High significantly less than that of my peers. School. However, I have continued my attempts to When the first day of my learn Mandarin Chinese for one reason: I Freshman year came, I found love the language. myself in a classroom normally Despite an endless number of idiosyncrasies intended for geometry classes. and quirks in Chinese that I simply cannot Around me were, perhaps, two understand, I find the tongue wonderfully dozen other students that had simplistic, in speech and in writing. A lot chosen to study the most widely of the grammatical concepts do not make spoken language in the world. As sense to me, but so many of them do that we waded through the first lessons, simply following the structure of phrases is many of us found our interest in opium to my mind. the language greatly increased. Others, unfortunately, lost interest Perhaps the single most difficult part of altogether, and dropped out of the class. It Chinese, for me, is learning to connect sounds to became apparent as the first semester sped by characters. Every other language I have studied that the majority of people that took the class thus far has had phonetic elements - not so for only did so on a whim. Few, it seemed, actually Mandarin. That individual syllables can have a (continued on page 12) 11 Sundays June 2010

12. (continued from page 11) Students Desk myriad of different meanings is completely alien : : Mrs. Marilyn Guerrera to me, as is the idea that each of these meanings has its own character. Learning Chinese feels like learning two different languages and trying to ! . Agnes. Wethers- put them together. field, . . Highcrest Elementary. . . . James Annie. This issue is remedied somewhat by the method . of learning new vocabulary. In both Chinese . . . classes, new phrases have generally been learned . , individually, using PowerPoint presentations . . . accompanied with teacher direction to maximize . . class understanding. This contrasts with other . . , , language classes, where often students are . . , . expected to learn vocabulary on their own. . Such an independent strategy is sufficient for , , . . those classes, which do not involve foreign scripts - only foreign grammatical structures : and vocabularies. Independent learning is not : Mrs. Marilyn Guerrera sufficient for English-speakers learning Chinese. It is difficult to summarize my experiences in .. learning Chinese, as they are many. I suppose the SIMSBURY, CONNECTICUT HENRY JAMES MEMORIAL. ,,, single best way to do so would be to answer this question: Were I to find myself in eighth grade , . again, would I still have chosen to take Chinese? .,, ,, The answer is yes. . , , ., .,, .,., ,., ,,. : : Mrs. Marilyn Guerrera : : Mrs. Marilyn Guerrera .., ,. . . .King Philip , ., . ! , , . ! . . : ,,. ,. ,,. ,,. ,,,,. . . ,? . yo-yo,,M&M . (continued on page 13) 12 Sundays June 2010

13. 2010 CLS Youth Summer Camp Date: August 2, 2010 to August 6, 2010 Time: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Place: Irving A. Robbins Middle School 20 Wolf Pit Rd Farmington, CT 06032 Chinese Language School of Greater Hartford offers five exciting days of summer camp for children turning 6 and up by December 31, 2010. The curriculum includes martial arts, calligraphy, painting, singing, dancing, arts and crafts, Chinese Yo-yo, Chinese chess, Chinese cooking, etc. Please visit www.cls-ct.org or call (860) 461-4507 for Summer Camp registration details and application form. 7th Grade (continued from page 12) Mrs. Marilyn Guerrera , , , :Mrs. Marilyn Guerrera yearbook : 13 Sundays June 2010 Chloe Li

14. Fathers Day Gift By Jane Hsu Dad has always been there for us in countless ways. This Fathers Day, show your dad how much you appreciate his support, encouragement, and love by giving him this handmade Origami Shirt. This shirt will last forever; it will serve as a reminder of your love and gratitude. Video for Making Fathers Day Gift Correction in video: 1/4 inch, not 1/8 inch Origami Shirt Folding Instructions: 1. Pinch the center of each short side of the rectangle. 2. Fold both top and bottom edge to the center. 3. Turn the 4. Fold it 5. Fold the paper over; down again bottom edge at the top up one-third edge, fold the height of down 1/4 the paper. inch. 6. Unfold the 7. Turn the 8. Lift the loose top edge. paper over; corners at the fold both center of the sides to the bottom and center. spread them apart. (continued on page 15) 14 Sundays June 2010

15. Defining the CLS Experience It was Winston Churchill who wrote, We make Our students often give little thought to their a living by what we get; we make a life by what we role as future alumni. To increase their awareness, give. These words can definitely be applied to the Library is renewing its efforts to enhance our many gifted leaders, committed educators, our students experiences and involvement in the and passionate alumni. school. Welcome Back Alumni programs and Story Hours will be important components of During my ten years as a parent of the CLS, our library experience. I have seen the many ways that the school is working to build on the legacy of those who This Newsletter contains many school updates. came before. I have been impressed by many of Dr. Shyling Lee, Chairman of the CLS Board of the engaged alumni. For example, Keith Lee will Trustees, received the Outstanding Citizenship be the first person ever to receive the Alumni Award at the Asian Pacific American Coalition Award, which will be given to outstanding of Connecticut (APAC) Gala, which was held on alumnus in years to come. He has helped at the Saturday, May 1, 2010. Be sure to read her year Chinese New Year Celebration, the Riverfront end report on page 3. Dragon Boat and Asian Festival, and Graduation On May 29, many of the CLS students and ceremonies. He also comes once a month to take teachers attended the Association of Chinese care of our library. Beginning this fall, there will Schools (ACS) 2010 conference in New York. be new opportunities for alumni to get involved Check out who took home the prizes on page 5. at CLS. Turn to page 6 to learn how to make an Origami Wed love to capture stories about the truly Shirt by following the detailed instructions or by powerful and influential role of CLS graduates watching the video. I hope that you will fall in who are out to make a difference. Please go to love with Origami that will fill your world with our Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ creativity and imagination. pages/Hartford-CT/Chinese-Language-School- of-Greater-Hartford/244466737868?ref=ts to We are always looking for news from you and connect with us. Or feel free to stop by at Trinity for other contributions to our Newsletter. Please College in Hartford on Sundays for a welcome contact us at: emykaren@cox.net. Have a back to CLS. wonderful summer! Hsiu-Chen Hsu (continued from page 14) 9. Fold the 10. Fold the top corners 11. Lift the bottom 12. Here is the top edge down and inward edge up and slide completed shirt. to the to meet at the it under the collar. back, intersection of the Press firmly at the along the horizontal crease and bottom edge of the existing the vertical centerline. shirt. crease You are forming the that is the shirts collar. closest to the top edge. 15 Sundays June 2010

16. Chinese Language School of Greater Hartford Mailbox 702540 300 Summit St Hartford, CT 06106 This school admits students of any race, color, and national or ethnic origin. 2010 CLS 16 Sundays June 2010