10月30日

Dear all parents,

---Homework:

Since we already have dedicated Chinese class,  the homework for DiZiGui class will focus on the behaviours. For example, how to respect the parents (孝) and how to follow some etiquette (礼), etc.

This week's homework is:

-- 晨省昏定。 I asked students to greet their parents (you) after getting up in the morning and before going to bed in at night.

-- 电话礼节。Some of our students starts to answer phone calls for their parents now. In the class, we showed how to politely answer the phone call. Some phrases like "请您稍等一下"，“请问您找谁？”etc. are encouraged to used. If your child has chance to answer the phone, please monitor him or her to see if the politesse is applied.

In the class, we shared the homework feedback from some students. we felt that it is very lucky to be the parent of 栾茗荃. Before sleep, she prepared water of teeth brushing for her dad and mom, served the water of washing feet,  and warmed the bed for her parents. Annie Wang warmed the soothing bag in microwave for her grandma every night. 程迪's mom enjoyed passionate hugs from her daughter before sleep..... Maybe all these are little kindness. But they can contribute to happy families and eventually a beautiful world.

Please fill the feedback form so that we can share more in the class. I understand you are busy. If you write some notes on how your kids behave during the past week, they will be quite happy when I share your positive comments in the class.

-- 在爱中行走:

We continued the uncompleted topic of last week -- Love. Teresa's life demonstrates the unconditional love:

其中有个老人，在搬到「垂死者之 家」的那天傍晚即断了气，临死前，他拉着德兰的手，用孟加拉语低声地说：「我一生活得像条狗，而我现在死得像个人，谢谢了。」

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当她获得诺贝尔和平奖之后，一天，黄昏时分，她听到有人敲门，打开门看到一个可怜的麻风病人。他衣不蔽体，饥肠辘辘，在寒风中瑟瑟发抖。她立刻给了他一张毛毯和一些东西吃。

不过，那个可怜的麻风病人却诚恳地说：

「嬷嬷，今天我来这里不是来索取什么的。我听说你获得了大奖。因此，我今天早晨也决定将今天讨来的东西都送给你。我从早晨一直乞讨到现在，所得到的东西都在这个碟子里了。嬷嬷，请一定收下我这个微不足道的礼物。」

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德兰修女在出殡的时候，印度总理跪在地下，印度阁员跪在地下，德兰修女的遗体走到印度大街上的时候，两边高楼上的印度人都统统下来跪在地下，没有人敢站的比她高。她的坟墓上写的是「伟大的印度圣母德兰修女」。

Please refer to the following link for more detail: http://www.dfg.cn/gb/cszd/shzr/48-ajx.html

--- Halloween:

Thanks the parents for bringing us candies for Halloween.

If you have any good material, stories, suggestions, comments, please let me know.

Yours respectfully,

Fan