Kindergarteners and Kites

Last Friday, a small army of elementary school children visited the CMS. It happened something like this: Josh’s fiancé has a friend who knows a fourth grade teacher in Hangzhou. This teacher took Josh, Aaron, David, and Xi out to dinner last month. She then invited them to visit her class and tell her students about how to get into Harvard.

So, two weeks ago, Aaron went and visited the school. (I am still trying to get him to write a blog about this.) He had a fun time and invited the fourth grade class to come visit the CMS. They showed up last Friday with the Kindergarteners in tow. (We don’t know why the Kindergarteners showed up but whatever.)

Xi, Aaron, Davide and I greeted them in the CMS lobby and Xi told them a little bit about what we do.

The Kintergardeners weren’t allowed up the stairs so they went outside while the fourth graders filed into (and filled) Andy’s office.


Within minutes, kids were climbing on the furniture, climbing in the windows from the terrace, and were checking out Andy’s computer set up.


Then Aaron and I joined the fourth graders to fly kites. (I had luckily purchased one the day before on my walk through the botanical gardens.) We filed onto the bus to go to the library and ended up at another campus of the university where we found a nice green place to run around and fly kites.

I don’t really know how to fly a kite so I didn’t get my kite in the air for more than ten seconds. But it was fun to watch the kids run around and to talk to the teachers. Kite strings snapped, kites were stepped on or got stuck in trees. There was a film crew. It was crazy and kind of fun.