“Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.”

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Harmony Day Celebrations

Happy Harmony Day!
Well, yes I am late, Harmony Day was the 21 March, which was a public holiday due to that Easter thing. So at Ashfield Library we celebrated Harmony Day on the 28th March. I want to share with you what the children of our ESL class put together for their parents on Harmony Day.

The Ashfield Library ESL homework help class practice their English Skills with songs and poems and short stories. They performed some of these for their parents at the Harmony Day afternoon tea.


The children were recorded by radio announcer Joy Lu and broadcast on Saturday 12 April on 2AC Australian Chinese Radio.

Harmony Blossoms was written by poet Li Fu Qi for the program.

Harmony Blossoms
the star in the sky,
the flower on the ground,
we are in one family,
joined to the world.
hand in hand,
shoulder to shoulder,
I help you, you help me,
love one another happily.
our fiends every where in the world,
for peace ,for freedom,
let us sing and work together,
making a peaceful universe,
harmony in bloom all over the world.