Keystone Magazine Learning the Keystone Way 2015-2016 EN | Page 98

Chinese Thread
and get boarders to compete to win a top spot
for the best-decorated door. There was more than
one winner.
Dormmates, Betty Guo and Emita Lin – both
from grade 8 – said their winning door was
inspired by the Spring tradition of eating fish,
because the Chinese word for fish (yue) sounds
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similar to the Chinese word for surplus. “So, our
door decorated on the theme of an undersea
world is in some way related to Chinese New
Year,” Betty said. Another creative entry and
winner was the nutcracker door by Gemma Liu
and Vincy Nie: “We were inspired by The Nut-
cracker ballet and the Christmas tradition. It is
also family centric just like the Spring Festival.