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today I got invited

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to I feel I want to call our first annual kind

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of Lunar New Year celebration at lure

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beer middle school so lure beer is the the home of

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the Longhorns but over the last 3 years it's

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also become the home of our dual

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language immersion programs in our secondary setting

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we had a group of students um

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participate in the celebration um

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they were able to wear the traditional um

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Lion costume or

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dress um they danced around

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we're uh

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prepared for a door to door visit to some

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teachers classroom we have a really short line

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dance performance to the students

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and the teachers and then as a way to show

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um the teachers appreciate

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they gave the feed the red envelopes to

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the Lions and

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then we also have a bigger um celebration

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with the lion and also the Dragon Dance

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in the quad area for um everyone

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to watch it

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the excitement has been building

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throughout the week um just of like staff

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um saying you know when is it

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what what what do I do what can I do uh

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how can I participate uh what I do when

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I get there um just the

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build up has been great um and it just kind

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of added like just an extra amount of positivity

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this week just something to look forward to I

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think it's important

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to know the culture when you're

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learning a language cuz you're only

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you will only be more interested in this language

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as long as you know their culture

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there's something uh spark in their

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culture that attracts you right so for example we're

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learning uh the New Year's the New Year traditions

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and you might want to know how would people

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grade each other in the New Year's and what are

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some traditions called in Chinese and they want

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to they might want to know the background story of

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the Chinese myth where the New Year's

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traditions genuinely

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um everyone can gain more

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experience and more knowledge from uh cross-pollinating

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learning about each other and because

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that's an extension of what our our whole

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um world is um our

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world has been made smaller with technology social

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media and the more we learn about each other

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the more we learn about each other's Traditions Foods

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cultures holidays

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the more we can understand each other and live

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um peacefully together

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and again I want our students to feel like their

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home life their home culture

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doesn't have to stay at home that's what dual language immersion programs

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bring you can be your authentic self

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at your school right Lunar

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New Year is not about doesn't have to be about

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what you do at home with your parents your grandparents

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your church or your community it's part of your school

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and that really helps our kids be proud of where they come

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from so this is the first

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year but this is the first year hopefully of many we

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hope to keep this as a tradition um

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so that we can continue to build on

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the Traditions here at lorber I really

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enjoy seeing how proud our students

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are and how excited they are to see the enjoyment on

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everybody else's face knows tells me that we're

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we're on the right track um and it's just it's

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just a good experience it's it's very rewarding to see

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the things that uh we support at the

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level become reality for our kids

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sing

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koala Happy New

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Year