Ah, television!

National Day Parade, Beijing, originally uploaded by zawelski.

(posted by Dave)

Ivy, our eight-year-old precocious neighbor who speaks better English than some of our students, came by to play with our kids and get a bit of help with her English homework. Here, in their marvelous entirety, are the lyrics to the song she wanted help with:

“We're together arm in arm.  Over mountains and seas our songs spread.
We're together.  We're heart to heart.  Television reflects the
colourful world.  
Television agarland of friendship You bring us hope
and splendid futrure.  
Television a link of friendship you bring love
to the people all over the world, all over the world, all over the
world.”

We sent her back to the kids’ room, where she and Xander had a marvelous time reading “Go Dog, Go” in English and Chinese instead...