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!!!!

Katie caught Enrique reading (and shrunk him!)

Katie Eu caught Enrique Chuidian reading - and then Photoshopped him down to size.

Qiuyan has caught some Hangzhouvians reading

Katherine Ye caught reading all over campus

Gabby Tam and Katherine Ye submitted these photos over the weekend (presumably Gabby taking the pictures as Katherine takes up the creative poses), but I'm afraid I forgot to post them until now. Sorry, G & K - many thanks for the entry.