Sunday, July 24, 2005

Visit to the Book Exhibition this year

I went to the book exhibtion last Wednesday. To my surprise, there wasn't a long queue like last year's but the news said that there were 20% more people going to it. Maybe it's because of the longer opening hours this year.

I wasn't able to visit all the 4 halls that day because I spent a lot of time at Hall 5 where I got a foot rest and a book stand from 3M to improve my posture when I work at my desk at home. I hope they can help reduce my headaches and neck pains. I also bought 2 boxes of finger puppets for the school. I'm thinking about having students choose the characters they like and write stories or scripts about them. Wouldn't it be fun for them to do a finger puppet play during lessons? We could even develop that into an inter-class competition during lunch time. There are 25 puppets altogether, one with the theme of fairy tales and the other a farm. I bought a tiger to add to it in case the girls would like to introduce a wicked animal character in their plays. The drawback of the puppets is that they are small (of course, consider that they are for fingers!) which make it inappropriate for performances in the Hall. Anyway, maybe other colleagues would have some suggestions for how to make use of them.

I didn't buy any books this time because of not enough time. I plan to visit the exhibition again either today or tomorrow.