Northmor students Skype to China for lesson in culture

By Jackie Tupps, Asst. Ele­men­tary Sec­re­tary, North­mor Elementary -

Sixth grade stu­dents at North­mor Ele­men­tary School skyped to Bei­jing, China before win­ter break. Mr. Thew, the sixth grade math teacher, treated the stu­dents to a les­son in Chi­nese cus­toms and cul­ture through his wife, Jes­sica, and sis­ter, Susan Smith. They spoke about their vis­its to Tian’an Men Square, the For­bid­den City, the Great Wall, and the Olympic Vil­lage. Stu­dents ques­tions included money exchange, food, mod­els of cars most dri­ven, and how the city was dec­o­rated for Christmas.

The rea­son for the trip to China is adop­tion. Jes­sica and Jared Thew are adopt­ing a thirty-four month old girl named, Cleo. From Bei­jing, Jes­sica and Susan will fly to Nan­ning Guangxi China to Cleo’s province city to meet her and file all in-country adop­tion paper­work. They spend six days wait­ing on paper­work and sight­see­ing. Jes­sica met her daugh­ter for the first time on Christ­mas Eve. On Decem­ber 28th, they flew to Guangzhou where they stayed in the Gar­den Hotel and wait on all Visa and Cit­i­zen­ship pro­ceed­ings to take place. If all goes as planned, the Visa pack­age will be avail­able on Jan­u­ary 3rd and they will fly home on the 4th.

Jared and all five of Cleo’s sib­lings are at home wait­ing for their safe arrival. Con­grat­u­la­tions to the Thew fam­ily and thanks for shar­ing your story.

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