
This week we begin celebrating the Lunar New Year. Like many countries and cultures around the world. this involves many wonderful and colorful traditions and rituals. Most countries and cultures have traditions that relate to the New Year. Here are a few examples from around the world:
There are many more unique and interesting traditions found all over the world. What is interesting, however, is how much they have in common. Though they are very different in regards to what and how the traditions are celebrated, almost all of them relate to trying to do something to make the coming year better in some way. The ritual or tradition is performed because by doing so it will bring good luck, prosperity, love, and so forth.
I think more than ever we want and hope for a better year for us and our children. As we celebrate the ending of this “year” and look to the new one, the Year of the Ox, we can take heart in the fact that we have made it this far and be hopeful that this coming year will be a better one in many ways.
Dalat International School has played a meaningful role in my family since the 1970’s.
Mr. Steinkamp did more than “stand at the helm.” He is affectionately known as Uncle Karl because of his deep investment in individual student lives.
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