small gifts?

[Anonymous]

I have accumulated lots of See's suckers and lots of handmade postcards with our school logo and a personal note from a high school world history student to their new Chinese friend. bigger items for the adults, i have not figured out yet, but am working on it. Our internet at work has been more down then up, so life is stressful right now with year end stuff to complete.

[Anonymous]

I had forgotten about the bigger gifts, arghhhh! Anyone have any ideas? Also, how many do we need?

[Anonymous]

Finally, I have received a letter notifying me the gift from Lakers, they will give us 8x10 picture with Mat Burnes's signature. I am planning to call (always recording) them and ask for something like key chains, note pads, etc. or students in China could appreciate his picture?
Otherthan this, I have my Japanse students to hold a few cranes and some cards with origami attached each. Yes, I also need to think about the bigger gift to the host-family
To Japanese, I bring them nut products. Most of nuts in Japan are from California, or middle east, so chocolate coated nuts are good presents to Japanese. Trader Joes, See's candy, Harry and David (Manhattan Beach) could be the places to purchase..but remember chocolate will melt in the hot weather..
I will look around some nut product for the host family.

[Anonymous]

I looked at my notes (again) from the orientation and I noted that Dr Dube wanted us to bring a book about California or the U.S. and a t-shirt. I picked up a shirt with the Coca-Cola logo on it. For the kids, we were to bring 30 hand made gifts and 30 school supply type gifts.
Am I wrong? Should I be getting something else? Help!

[Anonymous]

I’m pretty certain I’ll be able to get my hands on a handful of SAT pencils which I planning to use as gifts for the students. I’ll of course explain how the SAT in some respects is America’s version of the GaoKao. I’m also taking a few SAT study guides. I hope the students find the latter gifts interesting as they compare it to their own GaoKao study guides. I’m also heeding Ben’s idea and heading to the dollar store for additional school supplies. My students will also be making some of the gifts that I am taking. It’s great reading everyone’s ideas.

[Anonymous]

In the absence of any better ideas for our "larger" gifts ,I am thinking of bringing several of the shirts I have gotten at races. I have never worn them, and most are colorful and have the name of some California city on them. I also have some shirts from invitationals I worked when I was a xc and track and field coach. I was thinking of having them made into a quilt, but China is welcome to them.

[Anonymous]

your notes agree with my notes regarding the number and types of gifts

[Anonymous]

Yes, I recall that a book about California or Los Angeles would be appropriate as a family gift. Costco does not have the selection of books like they used to, but there is a discount book store in Simi Valley that I'm going to run into tomorrow and look for a colorful book. As for 30 students, I was able to get panther paw stickers in green and white from my school's student store. We are the Chaparral Panthers, and green and white are our school colors. I was also given some green and white panther bracelets, the rubber kind.

[Anonymous]

Hi Harue.
What kind of nuts do you recommend taking? There are so many varieties to choose from at Trader Joe's. Thanks for your help.
Dylis

[Anonymous]

dbecker
Sorry for being late to reply your question. (I just finished to submit a report yesterday for a grant I received this year)
I bough a big of nuts 'Cashew Clusters' from Costco! I read that many Chinese families are health conscious, so they might like to eat nuts, too. But at the same time I found out that China produces their own Almond, Walnut. It seems that Pistachio production was down in 2009. (problems of weather?) China is a huge country that they can produce almost anything..I guess. I would stick to anything from California.

I also found out that books in China are expensive. I will definitely buy a nice book about California as Clay mentioned in the meeting for the host family.

[Anonymous]

I have some small gifts to give out:
Post Cards from Escondido, Buttons and notebooks from the Padres, 50 pair of sunglasses, -- that bag in the background are full of them, 10 polo shirts, three hats, 2 bags, 10 towels, all with the schools logo on them.
I also have two T shirts from the San Diego County Fair.
That's about it. I'll pack light and as I give away the gifts I will purchase my wardrobe as I need.

If anyone wants sunglasses to giveaway we have about a 600 more that you can have. They all have AATECH printed on the side, but they are good sunglasses.

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[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

At the orientation, we discussed both postcards and student-made bookmarks as possible gifts.

In my classes, the students mail postcards to the class during breaks as an extra credit project. I have piles of old postcards in my classroom & cabinets. The students have written messages on them, and they have stamps, cancellations, etc.

They seem like a fun/cute combination of something student-made and a postcard, but would giving a "used" card be rude?

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