Eggcellent cooperation on program
By Alex Zhuang |
March 28, 2012, Wednesday
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THE Shanghai American School community has always been a tightly knit one, two campuses but one school.
On February 12, a group of students from the Puxi EggsChange club scheduled a meeting with a handful of Pudong students who are officers in the Roots & Shoots (R&S) organization, in the hope of extending the reach of EggsChange.
The original proposal was to devise a system that would allow egg deliveries to faculty members at SAS Pudong, via R&S, sending eggs over for them to distribute on a weekly basis. Much to our surprise, near the beginning of the meeting one of the R&S officers showed us that he had already drawn up a professional-looking form that their teachers could fill out for egg deliveries. The level of enthusiasm from our Pudong counterparts was very much appreciated.
The meeting proceeded smoothly as the proposal was initially discussed, to the extent that the R&S officers grew familiar with the process. We introduced the club: providing select farmers in Jiangxi Province with chickens, purchasing the eggs produced and shipping them back to Shanghai. We also discussed our hopes for the near future. Some rough edges were ironed out concerning minor technicalities, but fortunately there were no major complications.
And so, egg deliveries to Pudong have already begun, as we are sending 20 boxes over to the Pudong campus each week (deliveries remain exclusively open to faculty and teachers for the time being).
We are extremely grateful for this opportunity to work with our sister campus. Not to mention, it was very timely as the amount of eggs that were being shipped from Jiangxi had dramatically increased over the past few weeks - a staggering amount of 100 boxes were coming in each week (a total of 1,500 eggs), all of which had to be distributed with haste, as the boxes were quickly piling up.
However, this was not our sole incentive for meeting with Pudong. By branching out and introducing EggsChange to the Pudong campus, we have taken what we hope will be one step closer to exposing our club to the larger international community here in Shanghai. We would like to thank the students from Pudong for their collaboration and vehement support, and we hope relations between the two clubs will strengthen in the months ahead.
(Alex Zhuang is a Grade 11 student at Shanghai American School Puxi campus.)
On February 12, a group of students from the Puxi EggsChange club scheduled a meeting with a handful of Pudong students who are officers in the Roots & Shoots (R&S) organization, in the hope of extending the reach of EggsChange.
The original proposal was to devise a system that would allow egg deliveries to faculty members at SAS Pudong, via R&S, sending eggs over for them to distribute on a weekly basis. Much to our surprise, near the beginning of the meeting one of the R&S officers showed us that he had already drawn up a professional-looking form that their teachers could fill out for egg deliveries. The level of enthusiasm from our Pudong counterparts was very much appreciated.
The meeting proceeded smoothly as the proposal was initially discussed, to the extent that the R&S officers grew familiar with the process. We introduced the club: providing select farmers in Jiangxi Province with chickens, purchasing the eggs produced and shipping them back to Shanghai. We also discussed our hopes for the near future. Some rough edges were ironed out concerning minor technicalities, but fortunately there were no major complications.
And so, egg deliveries to Pudong have already begun, as we are sending 20 boxes over to the Pudong campus each week (deliveries remain exclusively open to faculty and teachers for the time being).
We are extremely grateful for this opportunity to work with our sister campus. Not to mention, it was very timely as the amount of eggs that were being shipped from Jiangxi had dramatically increased over the past few weeks - a staggering amount of 100 boxes were coming in each week (a total of 1,500 eggs), all of which had to be distributed with haste, as the boxes were quickly piling up.
However, this was not our sole incentive for meeting with Pudong. By branching out and introducing EggsChange to the Pudong campus, we have taken what we hope will be one step closer to exposing our club to the larger international community here in Shanghai. We would like to thank the students from Pudong for their collaboration and vehement support, and we hope relations between the two clubs will strengthen in the months ahead.
(Alex Zhuang is a Grade 11 student at Shanghai American School Puxi campus.)
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