{"id":393,"date":"2014-02-11T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlewanderingwren.com\/2014\/02\/chinese-new-year-greets-japan.html\/"},"modified":"2014-02-11T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T13:12:00","slug":"chinese-new-year-greets-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlewanderingwren.com\/staging\/8794\/2014\/02\/11\/chinese-new-year-greets-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year greets Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: center;\"><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We&#8217;re celebrating all things Asian at our house at the moment!<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">We&#8217;re in the middle of our Melbourne Chinese New Year festivities and our Docklands has a humongous dragon to celebrate. It is over a 100 metres long and the head is 10 metres high. It is illuminated by 2000 light globes every night and cost $140,000 AUD.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Last week we had three Japanese students move in for a month. A gaggle of teenage girls, all nervous smiles and bright suitcases. None of them had been to Australia before and so we are keen to show Melbourne off in it&#8217;s best light. We reckon a couple of thousand light globes should do it, and we encourage them to take a look!<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-N-C3w3MwLlU\/Uvncb6Xo8AI\/AAAAAAAAByo\/ytuA1S1lmHw\/s1600\/CNY.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-N-C3w3MwLlU\/Uvncb6Xo8AI\/AAAAAAAAByo\/ytuA1S1lmHw\/s1600\/CNY.jpg?resize=640%2C484\" height=\"484\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Docklands Dragon Corner of Bourke Street and Harbour Esplanade, Melbourne<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">The dragon is certainly a colourful talking point in the Docklands area, snaking along with six arches each 6m high. We spot the dragon from our friend&#8217;s Dockland rooftop garden and rather bemused they explain it wasn&#8217;t finished when the Lord Mayor came for the official launch, which involved just the dragons head.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Then no doubt someone got a right rollocking as initially just the head and tail was lit before someone found all the &#8216;on&#8217; switches. Or maybe that was when Melbourne was in meltdown and we were all told to converse energy and keep air conditioners off, otherwise the whole city was in danger of suffering electrical outages&#8230; Who knows but&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">thankfully it all came good, as it is rather spectacular!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-qg5FhiYaf_8\/Uvoet1AKWwI\/AAAAAAAABzo\/DKJh82FCTcE\/s1600\/CNY5.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-qg5FhiYaf_8\/Uvoet1AKWwI\/AAAAAAAABzo\/DKJh82FCTcE\/s1600\/CNY5.jpg?resize=640%2C497\" height=\"497\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">This dragon is part of a longer term plan to strengthen Melbourne&#8217;s Chinese New Year celebrations and position the City of Melbourne as a popular Chinese destination and an Asian friendly city. I&#8217;m pleased all the lights came on, otherwise those from Hong Kong would be rather unimpressed!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-size: large;\">Kung Hei Fat Choi Melbourne!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Our Japanese students are here to learn English and for the first time ever when I pick them up, I am handed a sheet of paper outlining their homework requirements during their four weeks in Melbourne.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">It is from the Department of English Communication from the&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Women&#8217;s Junior College that they attend in Tokyo.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><i style=\"text-align: start;\"><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<p><i style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">For the host family:&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<p><i style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Japanese students find it difficult to produce the w sound.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<p><i style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">There is a tendancy (sic)that Japanese students&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<p><i style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">don&#8217;t make their lips round&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<p><i style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">and project forward.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Do you mind reminding the students&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">to round their lips with the sound w?<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Wound, woman, wood, woke, wove, way, awake<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">What a wonderful wedding it was!<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Wren was weeping wildly&#8230;<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5jFYyMyP4A4\/UvnfvuVICSI\/AAAAAAAABy0\/gq9qL_H1G0k\/s1600\/CNY2.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5jFYyMyP4A4\/UvnfvuVICSI\/AAAAAAAABy0\/gq9qL_H1G0k\/s1600\/CNY2.jpg?resize=630%2C640\" height=\"640\" width=\"630\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #262626; font-family: myriad-pro; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;\">The Docklands Dragon is the largest purpose built dragon in the Southern Hemisphere.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">At our first dinner,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">the girls bring a selection of beautiful Japanese souvenirs, including ornate paper fans and chopsticks for every member of the family.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&#8216;Wow, wonderful thank you&#8217;!&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I exclaim, hoping that my lips are w w w rounded&#8230;&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">We&#8217;re in the middle of a heatwave here, these are perfect and thoughtful gifts. I happily tuck a new paper fan in my handbag.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Luckily we had a couple of nights of reasonably cool temperatures before a long run of 35 degrees&nbsp;+ days and horribly hot nights.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-size: large;\">When is hurt you in pain?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">For the host family:&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Japanese students find it difficult to produce the ou sound.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">There is a&nbsp;tendancy (sic)&nbsp;that Japanese students&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">don&#8217;t drop their jaws&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">and just lengthen the oo sound.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Do you mind reminding the students&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">to drop and quickly raise their jaws&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">with the sound ou?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Rope, robe, note, node, gross, grows, post, posed<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Old Wren grows cold just thinking about this<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-gxLIfp7-qlU\/Uvn3Qo-1yZI\/AAAAAAAABzE\/ttPtvOq5648\/s1600\/CY3.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-gxLIfp7-qlU\/Uvn3Qo-1yZI\/AAAAAAAABzE\/ttPtvOq5648\/s1600\/CY3.jpg?resize=526%2C640\" height=\"640\" width=\"526\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">The girls bring us chopsticks, sushi is one of my favourite foods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">We love hosting the Japanese girls, and will usually have 4-5 groups a year.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">They are always so polite, always say my food is delicious&#8230;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Well nearly always.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">We did have one girl who struggled with various foods.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">She who spent ages consulting her Japanese translator machine&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">before declaring<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I is prejudice against beans&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">They are so neat and tidy,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">apart from a few long black hairs around&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">we would never know they have been here.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">They are always very appreciative of all we offer.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">We generally host students who are either Nurses or Teachers on study tours.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I thought our current students were teachers but my daughter tells me they all want to be Air&nbsp;Hostesses.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Sometimes things do get slightly lost in translation.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I need my wonderful Blogging friends&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/orchidenglishblog.blogspot.jp\/2014\/02\/first-bird-post.html\">Orchid<\/a>&nbsp;Miyako and <a href=\"http:\/\/minorusaito.blogspot.jp\/\">Minoru<\/a> closer to help!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Every night we get homework. Tonight&#8217;s homework was questions following on from their earlier English lesson about health.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">When is you badly sick and in pain?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Luckily as I explained I have never been badly sick or in pain&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&#8220;touch wood*&#8217;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Silly me, whatever made me say that?&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Thirty minutes later I am still trying to &nbsp;explain &#8220;touch wood*&#8217;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">The word &#8216;superstitious&#8217; has now crept in to my&nbsp;explanation&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">my jaw is being quickly raised and we are all making lots of ouuuuuu noises.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">My DH walks in, he is asked&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-size: large;\">When is hurt you in pain?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&#8216;I am lucky I have never been in real pain&#8217;, he said, &#8216;touch wood&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Ohhhhh we all cry!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-dHk3GVRD0R4\/UvodjCIR-6I\/AAAAAAAABzU\/9zR98dV66m8\/s1600\/lww_2.png\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-dHk3GVRD0R4\/UvodjCIR-6I\/AAAAAAAABzU\/9zR98dV66m8\/s1600\/lww_2.png?resize=400%2C132\" height=\"132\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">*<span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\">touch wood<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\">&nbsp; (<\/span><i style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\">British, American &amp; Australian<\/i><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\">)&nbsp;<\/span><i style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\">also<\/i><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\">knock (on) wood<\/b><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\">&nbsp;(<\/span><i style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\">American<\/i><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\">)<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\">something that you say when you want your luck or a good situation to continue<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: #226699; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;\">It&#8217;s been fine all week and, touch wood, it&#8217;ll stay fine for the weekend.<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: #226699; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;\">We haven&#8217;t had any problems with the car so far, knock on wood.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #226699; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.de\/\">Our World Tuesday<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Thank you to all the hosts 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