Orkhon Spelling Bee: Congratulations to the Winners

Today, we had our spelling bee.  I just want to tell everyone that I think absolutely everyone who participated did an awesome job, and I want to give a special congratulations to our winners.  And the winners are:


For grades 7a, 8b, and 8a:

Left-Right: Yanjka (2), Onon (1), Ariuna (3)

Congratulations Onon for getting first place!

Congratulations Yanjka for getting second place!

Congratulations Ariuna for getting third place!

For grades 9, 10, 11:

Left-Right: Khany (2), Urnaa (1), Beegii (3)

Congratulations Urnaa for getting first place!

 

 Congratulations Khany for getting second place!

Congratulations Beegii for getting third place! (and I'm so sorry for spelling your name wrong on your certificate!)

 

For more photos from the spelling bee and from the 80s musical chairs that followed (and from yesterday's line dancing extravaganza), see the new slideshows on the right-side bar.  

Also, as I mentioned yesterday, there are many different line dances, and there are even variations (different ways to do the same dance) among dances.  You can follow this link to see a line dance that some people did at a wedding reception, and you can follow this other link to see an instructional video about how to do another line dance..

Culture Corner: November 11th in Canada and Korea

Today is November 11th.  November 11th is a special day in both Canada and Korea, but for different reasons.

In Canada, November 11th is Remembrance Day.  People wear red poppies on their lapels and gather together at 11:00am on November 11th to remember all the Canadian soldiers who have died in various wars.

In Korea, November 11th is Pepero Day.  I heard once that it is called Pepero Day because another way to write "November 11th" is "11.11", which looks like a bunch of Pepero sticks.  Stores make big fancy displays out of boxes of Pepero, and people give many boxes of Pepero to their loved ones and to their teachers,