Keystone Magazine Learning the Keystone Way 2015-2016 EN | Page 97

Enveloping Each Other
Even the tradition of giving red envelops (hong
bao), often to the younger members of a family,
is less about money, and all about blessings and
connections. Keystone’s middle and high school
students also received individual red envelopes
with special blessings. “There is no money in our high school Chinese teacher Wang Xiaoling who
also devised this merry hong bao plan. “This is a
great way for students and teachers to connect
beyond the classroom through tradition, which
we have made our own, and become stronger
as a Keystone family,” Ms. Wang added.
envelopes! Each envelope has a special note –
some might say that a specific teacher will offer
an extra lesson; another might afford a student
a one-time privilege of being supervised by a
specific teacher while doing homework; another
might give a student one chance to ask a specif-
ic teacher to sing a song,” explained middle and Students have also decked their homes-away-
from-home in the spirit of Chinese New Year, fol-
lowing another deeply entrenched tradition of
decorating the doors to one’s home with pictures
of gods or guardians that will protect the family.
Giving it a Keystone twist, Director of Residential
Life, Juli James decided to spice up the tradition
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