Chinese kite in Think Tank

  The Wednesday three weeks before, I went to Think Tank to ask some questions about my midterm historical fiction paper. After discussing with my tutor and walk off from the writing center, I found this kite next to the computer on the one of tutors' desk. It's a Chinese dragon kite, it is really beautiful and surprised me a lot, because I can find this style kite in Tucson. Well, I will show the photo of this kite below for you guys.

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