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| The next morning, after an enjoyable local style breakfast was spent on the High Speed train (look at the speed) is a luxurious 1st class train cabin, with seats etc. the equivalent of any modern airliner. |
We arrived in Changshao City in the afternoon and visited Chao Yang Primary School. This was the accordion trophy area. |
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| The first accordion class we visited welcoming us. |
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| And then they played for us. All from memory. |
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| Kimmo Mattila thanking the students, teachers and parents |
and making a presentation to one of the accordion teachers. |
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| This was the older more advanced class. |
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| and we took a picture with these children and their teachers and some parents. |
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| Teacher Meeting. The School Headmaster Huang Zhi Xiang spoke about the school accordion program and he thanked all the teachers and the city accordion teachers association for all their support. |
On the wall was video showing some of the past performances by the school accordion students. |
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| Teacher meeting with education officials and accordion association teachers. |
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| To the right of Kimmo Mattila are: Xia Xiongjun, the president of Hu Nan accordion association and Meng Liuxiang, Vice president of Hu Nan accordion association. |
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| After the teacher meeting, we took pictures outside. Nice signs with our pictures |
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| Crystal Wang and Xia Xiongjun alongside their pictures. |
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| The school accordion teachers, education officials, teachers from the Changshao Accordion Association. That evening we enjoyed an informal dinner with the accordion teachers from the school and the accordion association. |
