Getting ready for the 8th grade banquet in Chinatown

Simone and Grace

Me and Grace

Notice the orchid corsage

At the dance performance

This banquet was a big coming together of all the 8th grade students, their parents and teachers as a benefit for the upcoming cultural exchange program in China.  All the 8th graders will be going to China for two weeks of travel and learning.  They will each stay with a family and go to school for 5 days.  They performed traditional Chinese dance and music, did skits about the weather and shopping in China...and also showed off (above) their blossoming teenaged selves.

Grace sees me wanting to get this photo

Maelin and Grace

Audrey, Maelin, Lauren and Grace

The 8th grade class of Alice Fong Yu

Grace is the 6th from the right on the middle row

Thank you President Obama

San Francisco Panorama...taken from Bernal Heights

Photo taken by Peter West Carey. 

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It Does Get Better

Not only is the message great, but the music is really good!

The annual blooming of our Japanese Plum Tree

Self-portraits