A Museum Visit on a Hot Day May 31, 2013

The weather in New York City this week is very warm, but not too many people are complaining since it had been a very chilly Spring.  It was a good day for PC TECH students to visit the nicely air-conditioned Metropolitan Museum of Art for a fascinating exhibition of American painting during the Civil War era, the 150^th anniversary of which is being observed at this time (2011-2015).

Many of our students are aware of this very tragic time in the history of the United States – the bloodiest war in our history – when even family members battled one another over issues of the elimination of slavery and the preservation of the Union.

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The long-running comparison of etiquette customs in various cultures continues with these comments:

Hi, I’m Roy. I’m from China.  My father is from the south of China and my mother is from the north.

My father is very strict with me… and he really loves me.  My mother is also strict with me, even as she is very gentle.

Sometimes I resent my parents because they are very rigorous.  But I can understand why they are that way, so I love them even when I feel their rigor!

It’s my interesting family.  We aren’t always happy, but we love one another very much.

  PC TECH: English Language School in New York City