South Students Visit Taiwan via Teleconference

South's Mrs. Brovold's and Brianna Gadacz (now lead by her maternity leave substitute, Ms. Brennison) got their students connected with their pen pals from Taiwan today via videoconference.

The students have been exchanging letters and small gifts throughout the year, and were able to meet their counterparts face-to-face.

The Taiwanese students, from the Affiliated Senior High of Chung-Hsing University, ranged from 15 to 18 years old. Students on both side of the globe thoroughly enjoyed meeting each other.

The South Elementary students took turns introducing themselves and their counterparts did the same. Then the South students performed two songs for the Taiwanese students, who seemed to enjoy them a lot.

Then the Taiwanese students shared a prepared slide show about their country and their school, as well as their globally recognized efforts to stop childhood cancer through the Alex's Lemonade Stand foundation.

They finished with a song of their own, and there were a few minutes for questions going both directions before the American students needed to go to breakfast, and the Taiwanese students needed to get home to bed (it was 10pm Taiwan time!)