The Library is putting up a display (at the Victory Coffee side) to express our thoughts and good wishes for the disaster-ravished Japanese people. The theme of the display is “A Thousand Origami Cranes” (see full story about that in Wikipedia). Cranes are mythical birds for the Japanese people, and an ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury.
Nita Leslie and her Japanese students will come to the Central campus library at lunch time (12noon) on Friday, April 1st to teach people how to do the paper cranes to be added to our display (we have close to 100 so far). Origami paper will be provided. CPCC students and employees are invited to learn and join our “wish parade”. Bring your lunch, and hope to see you on Friday!