Thursday, March 12, 2009

#182 Book Week

This week was book week at Dulwich College. Each day, a different parent went to each classroom and read books to the classes. Today was the culmination when each child got to dress up as a favorite book character for the day.

Marco went as Curious George, Joseph as Thing 2 (his buddy Owen was Thing 1), and Juliana was the Wicked Witch of the West. All of the costumes were bought at a costume shop on "Wedding Street" in Suzhou. For $10-20 you can have a custom made copy of any item.

Our driver, Nash, bought Juliana the bamboo broom for $1.50 last night on his way home. The broom fits the costume perfectly, but it actually is the type of hand made broom that every street sweeper in Suzhou and maintenance person in our neighborhood uses to clean streets and rake leaves.

Maria was planning to go to school as Angelina Ballerina, but to her dismay (and Kathleen's too), Maria came down with a stomach bug on Wednesday and had to stay home from school on book day. So sad.

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