Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (1 of 22), Read 260 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Karen Moulton (Karen.Moulton@saschina.org)
Date: Sunday, October 07, 2001 09:42 PM

Hello from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China! Shanghai is a huge city with approximately 15 million people. We are located in a rural village in the Shanghai suburbs called Zhudi Town.

Shanghai is located 31:13:59N 121:27:00E. Our summers are typically long, hot, and humid. We can experience very high temperatures between April and October. Winters are short and cold with temperatures dipping below freezing. We almost never have snow though. It frequently rains and can be quite dreary. This year we have had the most glorious fall weather ever since I've been here (5 years). The late spring also brings lovely temperate weather.

We have over three hundred students in the middle school. Our total number of students from Pre-K 3's to 12th grade is well over 1200 students. We have a sister campus, pre-K-8th, on the other side of the city in Pudong. Our student body is made up of students from around the world. We have many Taiwanese and Hong Kong Chinese students, Koreans, and Europeans, as well as, American students. We follow an American curriculum. At our middle school, we have block scheduling with a Day 1, Day 2 pattern. The students participating in this project are in my four science classes and number sixty sixth grade students.

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (2 of 22), Read 240 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Larry Wiiliams (mmartin@altamontschool.org)
Date: Friday, October 12, 2001 01:26 PM

Dear Shanghai American Middle School,
My name is Larry Williams and I am from Birmingham, Alabama. I am huge sports fan and I was wondering what type of sports you play in Shanghai. If I ever decided to go to Shanghai what would you say would be the best place to visit? In Birmingham the best place to visit is Visionland Theme Park. Do you have a theme park in Shanghai?
Sincerely,
Larry

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (3 of 22), Read 229 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Mrs. Saunders 5th grade class (kaley_saunders@jayms.jay.k12.me.us)
Date: Monday, October 15, 2001 01:43 PM

Dear Shanghai American Middle School,

Our class is very interested in what kind of a lunch program
you have there. Do you eat mostly Chinese foods? Our
favorite lunch foods are pizza, Italian Dunkers, Italian
sandwiches, fries, and meatball subs. What are the most
unusual foods in China?

How long each day do you stay in school? What time do
you start and end? How long is your school year?

Our class is also interested in how you feel about the
terrorism that is going on. We have many different feelings.
Sometimes we're sad, sometimes mad, a little scared,
also angry.

We hope you write back to share part of China's culture
with us.

Jay 5th graders

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (4 of 22), Read 216 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Alice ()
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2001 02:51 PM


Hi! This is Emily and Susanna from Farmington,Missouri,USA.
We think it's neat that your schools have kids from all over the world. Our town is not so big, but it's developing. Any way,
our school has about 600 kids. About 100 are in the forth grade. Our teacher's name is Mrs. Alice Johnson. We have 23 kids in our class. How many kids in your class do you have?


Sincerely,

Susanna and Emily

 
Topic: Hi from Kippa-Ring state school Queensland Australia! (5 of 22), Read 197 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Jessica ()
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 08:25 AM

Dear Shanghai American Middle School,
Hi from Kippa-Ring state school Queensland Australia!
We are located near Moreton Bay, Redcliffe.

Redcliffe is located 27° 28’ S 153° 2’ E.
Our winters are very cold but we don’t have any snow here
And our summers are really hot and humid.

We have over 500 students at our school.
What kinds of sport do you play at your school?
We do all kinds of sports at our school including football for
Boys and Dance for girls.

I’m in grade 7 at Kippa-Ring state school.
What grade are you in?
We have all different races of people at our school.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely Jessica!!!

 
Topic: Students in China (6 of 22), Read 196 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: TAG students at Chesapeake Middle School (terry_cu@scoca-k12.org)
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:01 AM

Whaaatsuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup!!!!

We are Chesapeake Middle School. We are located at the very southern tip of Ohio. Some sports that we have are football, swimming and baseball. In my spare time I like to play football and I like to swim.

In our district we have about 1,300 people. 400 students are in our Middle School. Right now it is fall time. Our leaves are red, orange and yellow. We have Oak trees, Maple trees, Elm trees and Fruit trees. My favorite foods are pizza, grilled cheese sandwiches and steaks.

What are some of your customs?

What are your fashions?

What are some of your favorite foods?

What is your school mascot?

What are your school colors?

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (7 of 22), Read 182 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Kenny Gao ()
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 07:16 PM

Hi,

I'm from Shahala Middle school, and I was actually born in Beijing, China. I moved to America when I was 8. It's been almost 3 years since I've been there, and I'd like to know how China is changing.

Our school is actually brand new, and I'm in the 6th grade. We have P.E. everyday, and it's pretty fun. Since you follow a American curriculum, what classes do you have, and how is school over there?

Sincerely,

Kenny

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (8 of 22), Read 175 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Vicki (drechskids@hotmail.com)
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 07:20 PM

Hello, I am a taiwanese student from Shahala Middle School, Mrs. Drechsler's class. What are you learning in science in school these days? We are learning about the moon and stars. Do you have band and choir? If you do, what instruments can you play? I hope you can write back soon! So long!
From,
Vicki

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (9 of 22), Read 175 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Prisca (drechskids@hotmail.com)
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 07:22 PM

Hello,
I am a student from Shahala Middle School.I was wondering how far is Shanghai from Beiging? I am asking because when I was five I went to Beiging to visit and see all the great places. Is it really populated in Shanghai? Where I live it is not that crowded, I don't exactly live in the country but I live in the suburbs of the city.In a way where you live is sort of like mine because it rains a lot here too. The state I live in is right underneath Canada and it is in the northwest part of the United States. I was wondering what do you think about the terroist attack that happened in New York? Even though we live all the way on the other side of the country it effects everybody here in a way. Our economy is not so good either. Please write back at the e-mail address above this letter.

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (10 of 22), Read 154 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Colby S. (drechskids@hotmail.com)
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 08:27 PM

Hi!

My name is Colby S. and I am a boy from Shahala Middle School in Vancouver, Washington, USA. I'm in Mrs. Drechsler's 6th grade EXCEL class. Our school is brand spanking new, so food or drink outside of the lunchroom is prohibited. Is your school like that? My school's mascot is the bald eagle and the school colors are metallic gold and black. Does your school have a mascot? I play the trumpet in band. Does your school have a band?

My hobbies include origami, reading, drawing, and PE. I've heard that origami is popular in China. Is it? Also, are there Redwall books in China? I recommend them to anyone.

Please e-mail me with answers to my questions if possible. I'm very curious.

The weather here from mid-September to around May is pretty wet and rainy. We barely have any snow here, which kind of stinks. The last time it snowed here was two years ago. From around June to the first part of September, the weather is sunny and desirable.

My class's e-mail: drechskids@hotmail.com pen pals maybe? :)

Sincerely, Colby

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (11 of 22), Read 159 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Josh (drechskids@hotmail.com)
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 08:51 PM

Hi my name is Josh G i go to shahala middle school i just wanted a penpal maybe someone who plays soccer or neopets.com ow well just wondering.

SEE YA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (12 of 22), Read 146 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Ronald L. ()
Date: Monday, October 29, 2001 04:18 AM

Hey, just thought i'd reply u. Yup, i used to play neopets, but since my pet got a sickness, i started playing something else. Try out runescape.com, thats what i'm hooked on now.

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (13 of 22), Read 133 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Millbrook Jr. High (SDU2828@AOL.com)
Date: Friday, October 26, 2001 12:38 PM

Dear Shanghai Middle School,
We are a small rural town of 900 people. We are sixty miles southwest of Chicago.Our latitude is 41.5370*N and -88.5830W.Our special skills are farming and being lazy.( Our teacher does not agree with that statement). We have about 75 students in our school of 6-8th grade.We have been part of this project for two years.By the way how is the weather over there? Right now on 10/26/01 it is about 33*F.Is it true we dug a deep hole would we reach you.Do you guys/girls have any sports.We have sports such as: baseball, basketball, soccer, and volleyball.We hope you guys/girls can read in English because we can't read Chinese.So I hope you respond to our letter and please don't laugh at our typos. Will you send us one of those symbol hats and we will send you a baseball hat. We love you.Thank you for taking this time to read this letter.


Millbrook Jr. High
**8B**

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (14 of 22), Read 132 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Robin (drechskids@hotmail.com)
Date: Friday, October 26, 2001 07:27 PM

Hello,
I'm also from Shahala Middle School. After I read your letter, I was interested if you had any other students from other places around the world. I was also interested because you said you had students from Hong Kong, and my parents are both from Hong Kong (I'm Hong Kong Chinese). I was wondering what kinds of sports you have over there. Since you were based on a American curriculum, I was thinking you had football, basketball, or maybe even volleyball. We have those sports at my school, plus many more.

Hope I get to talk to you later,
Robin

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (15 of 22), Read 103 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Adam ()
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 03:24 PM

Hi my name is Adam I am a student at shahala middle school you probobly talked to alot of my class mates. I play soccer for a selsect team we stopped practicing on thursday.I have a few questions for you what music do you listen to? What Movies do you like? On the music subject do you know who Blink 182 is?

Email us at drechskids@hotmail.com

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (16 of 22), Read 103 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Paige Wilson ()
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 07:11 PM



Hi, my name is Paige, and I go to Shahala Middle School. In Vancouver,WA. In Mrs. Drechsler's class. Every thursday I do dance class. We don't get that much snow every year. Maybe 1 or 2 in. Do you get any snow? We have two classes. The excel class takes the tempature outside. Our summers are sometimes very hot. But then it gets cooler. Write back!!


Sincerly,
Paige

 
Topic: Letter to see if Kun Chen goes to your school (17 of 22), Read 75 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Dylan (loisp@freeholdboro.k12.nj.us)
Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:22 PM

wuzzzzzzzzzz uppppppppp people We wanted to know if a boy named Kun Chen goes to your school. If he does or doesn't tell uus if he goes to your school. And if tell him to write back.

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (18 of 22), Read 54 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Kevin Orris (loserkev@aol.com)
Date: Thursday, November 01, 2001 05:23 PM

Hello,

My name is Kevin. I live in the U.S., and was wondering what the weather is like there? Do you get tornados? We get a tornado about every 7 years in the northen U.S., and in the south they get about 10-20 tornados a year. Did you hear about the terrorist attatcks. Now we have a disease called Anthrax that is going around, theat we think is terrorist too. Do you celabrate Halloween?

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (19 of 22), Read 55 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Alli (drechskids@hotmail.com)
Date: Thursday, November 01, 2001 07:30 PM

Hi Kevin,
My name is Alli and I go to Shahala Middle School in Vancouver, WA. The weather over here is cold and wet. Where do you live? Yes we do celebrate Halloween although some people don't. Yes we did hear about the terrorist attacks and Anthrax. I think it is really sad. How is the weather were you live? What do you think about the terrorist attacks and Anthrax? who do you want to win the World Series? I'm all for the Diamondbacks!!!!
Please Write Back Soon!!!
Alli from Shahala Middle School

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (20 of 22), Read 39 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: ()
Date: Saturday, November 03, 2001 07:23 PM

I'm rooting for the D-Backs too, because im an alltime braves fan.

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (21 of 22), Read 42 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Freehold Intermediate (loisp@freeholdboro.k12.nj.us)
Date: Friday, November 02, 2001 11:32 AM

Hi, how are you class ?
two of the people sport is basketball.
one is baseball and sport that people is football.
Alex, Khi, Brendan, and Robert

 
Topic: Letter of introduction from Shanghai American Middle School in Shanghai, China (22 of 22), Read 7 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Maine 5th graders (kaley_saunders@jayms.jay.k12.me.us)
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2001 01:43 PM

WWWWWWWWaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzuuuuuu
uuuuuuuuuuuupppppppppppppppppppppppppp From the
hippy hoppy state of Maine. We are a group of fifth graders
that are willing to say
wwwwwaaaaaazzzzzzzzuuuuuuppppp.Our favorite sport is
football and soccer. What's yours? We have only one
priority in life and that is to say wwaazzuupp. What is your
favorite food? What are your seasons? SEE YYAA!!