Well, it's never easy to say farewell to a dear friend... and the departure of our guests from China was no exception. Many tears were shed as the delegation departed on Friday afternoon. During our last hours together, we had a farewell performance in the KIVA where the girls from China amazed us with their many talents. The performance ended in an exchange of gifts between the two schools (we received a gorgeous floral painting, made by one of the young students at Huaxia as well as brochures about Huaxia and Huaxia received a digital frame and photos from Ursuline as well as a framed photo marking our participation in the Confucius Classroom).
To ease the pain of goodbye, we shared a delicious butter cream cake, complete with two hugging girl bears. As you can see in the photos, goodbye was the hardest on our wonderful host students who became so close to their guest sisters in this very short time. Of course, we adults were pretty wrecked by the goodbye as well.
Happily, we are looking ahead to 2012 when we hope to be reunited with our Huaxia sisters! We are already planning for our Spring delegation to China and for the visit of a group from Huaxia in the Fall. We can't wait to be together again!
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