RESULTS (at last!)

After much deliberation, the secret judging panel chose Vrithik Mehta's picture of his teddy as this year's overall winner...

This one of Gabby Tam, submitted by Ingrid Tsang, was a close second - and we felt that Ingrid deserved an extra prize to share with her dorm-mates, since so many of them had helped to pose in her photos.

Additional runners-up prizes were awarded to 'ninja reader' Adrian Lee...

... and Gabby Tam/Katherine Ye (an inseparable team, Katherine in the pictures and Gabby taking them)...

Thanks to everyone who took part! I would have liked to give a prize to everyone, but the Library's budget is not limitless.

I hope we can do this again next year....

Highlights of the inaugural competition

Here is the montage of this year's entries that I posted on CIS Hangzhou TV a few days ago.... (Results to be announced tomorrow morning in Assembly.)

Slideshow compiled by Mr Murphy; photographs by numerous members of the CIS Hangzhou community.

The music here is an adaptation of Pharrell Williams' Happy by Youtuber Adreanna Pankow.

A further postcript

Coach Mentor and football superstar Thebes Law apparently took these rather spectacular views on a trip to Taiwan during the last vacation,.... but he only just got around to sending them to me. Still, it makes a nice final photo post for this year's blog. Thanks, Thebes.

I particularly like this one:

But the rest are pretty cool, too. I want to visit this place!

RESULTS - no more waiting!

Ah, sorry - I was guilty of a Lionel Hutzian misrepresentation with my punctuation there.

I meant.....

RESULTS?  NO - more waiting!!

Because of our special assemblies with Lea Waters this week, we haven't had an opportunity to hand out prizes for this competition. We'll aim to do this on Monday. 

And I just posted a little slideshow of the highlights of this year's competition over on the CIS Hangzhou TV Station.....

A postscript

I took our MUN Club to Shanghai over the weekend for the inaugural Shanghai International MUN (SHIMUN) hosted by Dulwich College Shanghai.

We enjoyed a free day roaming around the old French Concession area of Puxi on the Sunday, and I designated Garden Books at 325 Changle Lu (a lovely, lovely bookstore - far and away the best I've found in China [including Hong Kong!]) as our final rendezvous of the afternoon before returning to Hangzhou.

To my surprise and delight, students liked the place so much that it was hard to drag them away again. Most of them made one or two purchases.

Here are Coach Mentor Wu Qiuyan and Stephanie Wu - engrossed.

Full circle

Although this is too late to be 'in competition', I enjoyed receiving these photos from Jerry Yang today. Apparently, some boys in Mrs Kinzer's PE class on Monday were inspired to recreate the photo I used as an "example" in the post that launched this competition four weeks ago. Daniel Carolan is the daredevil sitting astride the hoop support on our basketball court. [Mrs K assures me that this was reasonably safe.]

I aim to announce the results of the competition in a few days.

A tip of the hat

I think I mentioned in introducing this competition in an Assembly shortly before our Easter break, but omitted to do so in the initial post here on this blog, that.... I am much indebted to Kurt Wittig, the Librarian at Northbridge International School in Phnom Penh. He was kind enough to spend an afternoon showing me around his library and his school when I was in Cambodia over Chunjie, and the inspiration for this competition came from him. He had just run a similar event himself, and there were many striking photographs of his students reading - displayed as posters all over the school.

I invited him to have a look over our efforts here on this blog last week, and he was very complimentary about them. 

Well done, everyone - it's been a lot of fun!

A final final entry....

Lauren Justice caught reading (not sure who was wielding the camera-phone here)... while Wu Qiuyan "does her hair". [Let's hope that little problem is soon behind us!]

I'm afraid this came in after the competition deadline - but thanks, anyway.

RESULTS - coming soon-ish

The secret judging panel are still deadlocked! But I am hoping to be able to announce some winners in a few days....

Be patient.

The picture is by Johannes Eisele, published by Agence France-Presse (AFP). If the symbolism is a mystery to you, check out the Washington Post article where I found it.

A final entry: Ingrid T catches Gabby reading

Ingrid Tsang submitted a few final pictures of herself and Gabby Tam (one of our first entrants this year) reading in their dorm. [Um, is she reading that book upside-down??]

You're never too young to start!

Rachel Li caught her little cousin reading....

Ingrid and her dorm-mates caught reading (and nit-picking!)

An unusual range of nighttime activities for Ingrid Tsang and her friends, Saana Hickling, Vivian Gu, Chee Ling Wu, and Isabella Boyne.

Camille (and friend) also caught reading

 Camille Chiang (and Frances Amos) have also been doing a lot of reading in their dorm lately....

Ariana caught reading in the dorm

Ariana Beaver apparently reads in some very unusual places....

Vinay caught himself reading in Dubai

Vinay Hirani seems to have done a lot of reading over the last vacation.

Vrithik caught Teddy reading

I didn't know Vrithik Mehta had a teddy bear.... Aaaah.

And I didn't know he had that book. Ahem!

Adrian caught himself reading in Shanghai (and elsewhere)

Adrian Lee - ninja reader!!!!