Celebrating the Human Spirit Radio Spot

December is a month of special holidays: Hanukah, Christmas, Kwanza and the close of Ramadan. But I discovered a web site created by teenagers that lists bizarre American holidays.

Here are just a few December celebrations:

Wear Brown Shoes Day, National Gazpacho Day, National Roof-Over Your-Head-Day, National Underdog Day, National Ding-a- Ling Day and my favorite, National Chocolate-covered Anything Day. December 27 is National Fruitcake Day a time in which I suppose we all discard that horrid fruitcake that's been around since the world was created.

Here's the kicker:  this web site is actually part of ThinkQuest Inc. a non-profit organization that offers programs designed to advance education through the use of technology. Students and educators work collaboratively in teams to learn as they create web based learning materials and teach others. The ThinkQuest Internet Library Challenge contains more than 5,000 unique educational web sites that have been created through ThinkQuest competitions and programs. One winning site, Dragonex, is a 70/30 split of Chinese history and the Mandarin language with interactive components, .wav files for pronunciation, and crossword puzzles.

Web sites by kids for kids. well, and me too. Think I'll go learn some Mandarin. Maybe on December 30, the Festival Of Enormous Changes At The Last Minute. This is Eileen McDargh for WRMN celebrating the Creative Spirit!

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