1.       We would like to thank you for a successful SCRIP fund raiser last Friday!
I am really proud that, in our first SCRIP fund raising program, we have collected $11,353 of orders from participated parents, and the amount of orders have generated $817.9 additional income for our school. In other words, your generous support enables us to put an additional $5 in our Chinese program for each student. Please accept my sincere appreciation to those who participated this time. 
I would also like to recognize the top two donors in our first SCRIP fund raiser: the families from the kindergarten and the 5th grade classes. The orders from these two classes were $2,400 and $2,080, correspondingly. To put it in perspective, each student in these two classes has helped AACCOM raise $11.53 and $8.01, respectively. What a great job! We are really proud of you all.
On behalf of AACCOM, I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the great contribution from our treasurer, Ms. Chih-Fen Pu, who took charge in putting our first SCRIP fund raising program in shape. Ms. Pu not only took the extra assignment, but also put in tremendous efforts on her birthday night (till 5:00am) to sort all orders out. Great job, Chih-Fen! I would also like to thank the parents who volunteered in this program.  Without your assistance, we could not have reached the goal effectively and efficiently. Thank you all!

 

2.       Due to Thanksgiving Holiday, there is NO Chinese School next week. Wish you all a wonderful holiday.

 

3.       There will be a school-wide "Yard Sale" event this Friday (11/21/2008). Please note that the venue of the event was slightly changed. From 7:10pm to 8:40pm, the event will be held in the Multi-Purpose Room, and from 8:30pm to 9:30pm, it will be moved to the hallway. Please contact your class parent representative for detail. 
The goals of this Yard Sale event are not only to improve our financial situation, but also to build friendship among our members. Your support and present are the best reward for the organizers. Look forward to seeing you this Friday!

 

4.       A parent from our counterpart, the Michigan Chinese School, was diagnosed with Leukemia and is currently receiving treatment in Texas.  She is a mother of a 6^th grader and needs to find a match for her bone marrow transplant. The Michigan Chinese School has invited a Red Cross Rep to their school last Saturday (11/15) to collect samples, and they hope we can help the parent as well. Therefore, the Red Cross Rep agreed that they can come to our school on Dec. 5.  The sampling process does not hurt at all (by using a cotton swab to collect sample of the mucous membrane from your mouth) but can possibly save a live.  If you are interested in being a donor, please contact me directly (a2chinese@yahoo.com or call 734-769-9068) before Dec.1 so that we can confirm with the Red Cross in time. Your consideration is highly appreciated.

 

 

1.    Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday, the “prize-exchange period” for the reading and writing program will start from 12/5/08 to 1/16/2009. There will be five weeks for participants to exchange the prizes with their cards of reading/writing records.

 

 

1.    The Yard Sale event will take place in the Multi-Purpose Room this Friday, please direct the students to the GYM during the break time. Please note that the gym is reserved for younger kids this Friday (we will provide babysitters). Older students please do not play basketball in the gym during this period of time. We apologize for the inconvenience.

 

2.    Last Friday, there was a F ORD FASION (BSE 3xxx) parking at the yellow line; we hope all AACCOM members can follow our parking rules. There was also a Lincoln MKS (BCU6632) violated our parking rules by parking in the secretary's parking spot. Due to this violation, MT staff needs to carry a box of our Directories, weighted more than 20 Kg, and walked more than 30 yards to enter the school. We have announced the rule that the "Secretary" and "Principal" parking spots are reserved for management team use only. All members of AACCOM have the obligation to follow this rule. Please make a note of it. We do not plan to figure out who is the owner of this car, but we hope the same violation will not happen again. Your consideration and cooperation are sincerely appreciated.

 

3.    Lost and Found: Please pick up a children’s jacket at the front desk if you forgot to bring it home last Friday. (The jacket was a black and green reversible jacket.)

 

 

1.  If you did not have the chance to join the SCRIP fund raiser this time, there will be another chance for you to participate in this meaningful program. AACCOM will host another SCRIP fund raiser in mid December. All the forms and information will stay in our website for your reference. The holiday season is coming and it is a great opportunity to support AACCOM through your holiday shopping. 

 

 

1.    The 2008-2009 Directory has been distributed. Please do not hesitate to report any mistake so that we can keep our records as accurate as possible.

 

 

Wassup China—

by UM the Association for Chinese Economic Development (ACED)

 

Date & Time: Friday, November 21, 2008, from 4pm to 7pm.

Place: University of Michigan East Hall

 

Event schedule:

4:30PM – 6:00PM East Hall Auditorium (EH 1360)*

Keynote Speech:

"The Global Financial Crisis and Asia" by Professor Linda Lim. Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business, Ross School of Business Director of Academic Programs, Center for Southeast Asian Studies

 

Professor Lim's talk will discuss Asia's role in the global financial crisis to date, the impact on Asia's economies, the policies their governments have undertaken, the likely path to recovery from recession, and possible changes in Asia's economic development and role in the global economy after the crisis. A question-and-answer session will be followed.

 

4:00PM – 7:00PM East Hall Atrium (Psychology side)

Booths: including photo exhibition, Chinese language & calligraphy workshops, study abroad and internship opportunities, raffles and giveaways and more!

 

6:00PM – 7:00PM East Hall Atrium (Psychology side)

Free Buffet Dinner with CSA rXn dance performance!

 

The event is open to public and free-of-charge.

 

 

UM Center for Chinese Study Film Series—Dance with Farm Workers

 

Time & Date: Saturday, November 22, 2008; 7:00pm 

Place: Auditorium A, Angell Hall (435 S. State Street ▪ Ann Arbor)

Building Access: Please note that on Saturday evenings access to Angell Hall is only through the glass entryway (called the “fishbowl”) on the east side of the building, facing both the center of the diag and the Graduate Library. Usually one of the glass doors in that entryway is unlocked.

 

A film by Wu Wenguang and Su Ming; China, 2001; 57 minutes (Mandarin with English subtitles)

Vérité documentarist Wu Wenguang records an unconventional dance performance project entitled “Dance with Farm Workers.” Initiated and organized by choreographer Wen Hui (the director’s wife), along with artists Song Dong and Yun Xiuzhen and staged in a former textile factory in Beijing, ten actors and dancers are brought together with thirty farm workers who came from poor regions of Sichuan Province to work on construction sites in Beijing. Drawn to this dance project by the promise of 30 yuan a day for their efforts, the laborers later discover that even they have an opportunity to stand center stage and make a statement. 

 

6:30pm Pre-Film Talk:

Please join U-M Professor Wang Zheng in Auditorium A, Angell Hall at 6:30pm for a pre-film talk on this unique documentary of an unconventional dance performance – all are invited to attend! The film will be shown at the usual time of 7:00pm. An Arts at Michigan “Passport” presentation.