Re: Chinese New Year

[Barbara Braxton <barbara@AUSTARMETRO.COM.AU>]

Thank you to all who have written to me about the ram/sheep/goat problem - I
am going to go with the elderly Chinese lady I met in Chinatown and use
'goat' in my library.  But I have another question now   ....

Apart from the Chinese communities in cities around the world, where else
celebrates this time as their New Year and what is it called?  In China it
is Yuan Tan (according to my research) and I know in Vietnam it is Tet, but
is it also New Year in Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand,
Korea, Tibet, Indonesia and the other South East Asian nations?

We have many, many Asian students in our school and I want to acknowledge
their heritage too by sharing what I  can about their celebrations. But
there are multiple sites on the web and I have given up trying to find the
one that answers my questions, when it is so much quicker to ask you!

Which also brings me to another bizarre request - yesterday I was spraying a
tree branch gold to make a money tree when the spray can (from El Cheapos)
exploded in my hand.  Now I am seeing the world thru gold-speckled glasses
(instead of the usual rose-tinted ones) and I don't know how to get it off.
Water doesn't cut it, I am reluctant to try scratching in case I scratch the
lenses, and I was warned against using turps in case it melted them!  Am I
doomed to forever peer through little specks like freckles - it is an
original look but rather tiring on the eyes!

Now I have the gold finger of the James Bond movie, can someone please tell
me where to get the body of the girl who was painted gold?

Thanks
Barbara

Barbara Braxton
Teacher-Librarian
Palmerston District Primary School
PALMERSTON ACT 2913
AUSTRALIA

T. 61 2 6205 6162
F. 61 2 6205 7242
W. http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au
E. barbara@austarmetro.com.au

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