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By YVETTE OROZCO
Eric Farquhar has decided to take it to the next level.
The second grader from Morales Elementary School is used to orchestrating his own brand of acrobatics with his cousins and brother on makeshift trampolines, but on Monday, Farquhar got a glimpse of the real thing as a troupe of Chinese acrobats visited his school.
“I was thinking maybe I can learn how to do this,” he said.
The visit was part of a national cultural and education program based in Kansas, Bureau of Lectures and Concert Artists Inc., which sponsors a variety of events at schools throughout the United States.
“I think it’s great when the students can see another cultural and some of their customs,” said Carla Beames, the school librarian, who contacted the BLCA about coming to Morales.
The group brought the tradition of Chinese acrobatics to the students and more than a few jaws dropped.
“The students were just mesmerized,” said Beames. “The main thing I wanted was for the children to be exposed to different cultures. A lot of our boys and girls are living in this one little area in Pasadena and that’s all they know — and they may not know where Beijing, China, is.”
From juggling, back-flips, rings and balancing to magic tricks with flying plates, the troupe made the first day back at school after a two-week holiday vacation a feast of the eyes.
“It was what you would imagine a gymnast doing, these guys were doing,” said Tiffany Cantu.
The cultural education correlated with lessons that Cantu, as a P.E. teacher, recognized as something the school stresses on a daily basis through class curriculum.
“We learned about speaking another language, muscles and how to get strong and healthy and all kinds of other stuff,” said Farquhar. “They taught us a lot about practice.”
“We related it to what we are doing right now with school work and TAKS because it takes practice in order to do well in anything,” said Cantu.
For Farquhar, it was like the circus coming to class and having his own imagination stirred.
“When I saw them doing back-flips and front-flips and going through the rings, I wish they could teach me how to do that,” he said.
The second grader from Morales Elementary School is used to orchestrating his own brand of acrobatics with his cousins and brother on makeshift trampolines, but on Monday, Farquhar got a glimpse of the real thing as a troupe of Chinese acrobats visited his school.
“I was thinking maybe I can learn how to do this,” he said.
The visit was part of a national cultural and education program based in Kansas, Bureau of Lectures and Concert Artists Inc., which sponsors a variety of events at schools throughout the United States.
“I think it’s great when the students can see another cultural and some of their customs,” said Carla Beames, the school librarian, who contacted the BLCA about coming to Morales.
The group brought the tradition of Chinese acrobatics to the students and more than a few jaws dropped.
“The students were just mesmerized,” said Beames. “The main thing I wanted was for the children to be exposed to different cultures. A lot of our boys and girls are living in this one little area in Pasadena and that’s all they know — and they may not know where Beijing, China, is.”
From juggling, back-flips, rings and balancing to magic tricks with flying plates, the troupe made the first day back at school after a two-week holiday vacation a feast of the eyes.
“It was what you would imagine a gymnast doing, these guys were doing,” said Tiffany Cantu.
The cultural education correlated with lessons that Cantu, as a P.E. teacher, recognized as something the school stresses on a daily basis through class curriculum.
“We learned about speaking another language, muscles and how to get strong and healthy and all kinds of other stuff,” said Farquhar. “They taught us a lot about practice.”
“We related it to what we are doing right now with school work and TAKS because it takes practice in order to do well in anything,” said Cantu.
For Farquhar, it was like the circus coming to class and having his own imagination stirred.
“When I saw them doing back-flips and front-flips and going through the rings, I wish they could teach me how to do that,” he said.
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