{"id":927,"date":"2014-01-13T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=927"},"modified":"2014-01-13T07:06:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T00:06:28","slug":"thursday-1814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 1\/9\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is my first day back at school.\u00a0 It\u2019s a weird week, since the students completed finals last week.\u00a0 Attendance is really good, considering nothing they do this week will affect their GPA.\u00a0 The 10th<\/sup> graders meet right after lunch as a group to receive their report cards and last minute instructions for their trip to the US.\u00a0 All 80 of them are leaving Saturday for schools in the US.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been assigned one of six schools.\u00a0 They\u2019ll be living in homes and attending classes for 4 weeks, before returning to Beijing and starting the next semester in February.<\/p>\n

The faculty is pretty excited.\u00a0 Many of the US teachers will be accompanying a student group to the US.\u00a0 For those not accompanying students, they\u2019re taking their first trips home to visit family and friends.\u00a0 They\u2019re counting down the hours until departure.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 11<\/span>th<\/sup> graders traveled to the US last year.\u00a0 This year during the break, they\u2019re making a 3-day trip to Singapore to take the SAT.\u00a0 It\u2019s about 1000 miles, one way.\u00a0 They\u2019re traveling as a group, and a few of the faculty are accompanying them.<\/span><\/p>\n

I received a report back from several people that the talent show went well while I was in Texas.\u00a0 The orchestra played well, and the guitar group was a big hit, playing a Green Day tune.\u00a0 Since 10<\/span>th<\/sup> graders make up a large part of the orchestra, and they\u2019ve been dismissed from school to prepare for their flight to the US, we don\u2019t meet after school today.\u00a0 The guitar club is beginning work on a new song.\u00a0 My job is to put together the drum track on Garageband for them to work with.\u00a0 For the orchestra, I bought ensemble music at Pender\u2019s in Denton while I was home.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to select a couple of tunes for the group to play, and work on the arrangements during my month-long break.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is my first day back at school.\u00a0 It\u2019s a weird week, since the students completed finals last week.\u00a0 Attendance is really good, considering nothing they do this week will affect their GPA.\u00a0 The 10th graders meet right after lunch … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}