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On my way to school on Wednesday, as it is my volunteer day at Concordia, I was completely surprised by a block of shops that were gone!! Completely torn down with nothing but a pile of bricks. There must have been at least 10 or more little shops along this block. I just drove […]
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Jim and I did a flower run today. We went to the outside flower/plant market which is similar to going to 50 small nurseries all in one spot. We needed new plants to replace the ones that died over the winter – some plants that didn’t like the cold on the 29th floor along […]
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Concordia held their annual sports day at school. The kids go outside to do all kinds of different sports. 3rd and 4th graders had the field from 1pm to 3pm. The kids have fun running around to the various organized events. I was there for moral support and to take pictures!! Average […]
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The 3rd grade girl scouts had their Mother Daughter event from 5pm to 9 pm. First we went to Karaoke…a favorite pastime for Chinese. I have never been to Karaoke in all the time we have lived in Asia!! We had two rooms booked for the girls to sing their hearts out…and they did. […]
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I had the opportunity to meet with Elle’s teachers today to get a “school reportâ€. Her teacher, Ms. Hannah, is just lovely. She is exactly what you would want for your young child. She is fun, bubbly and full of energy. She gets down to the children’s level to talk to them. She had […]
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At Elle’s school, the reception class (preschoolers-age 4) are studying space. The classes have been busy building rockets. The common area space outside of the classrooms has been turned into space stations with rockets and planets. The children have built four different kinds of rockets to play “space”. The Space Station Rocket […]
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It has been book week all week in both of the girls’ schools. I had fun reading in both classes on Wednesday. On Friday, the girls had a book character parade…at the same time, of course. It was decided Jim would go to Elle’s school and I would go to Emmy’s. Elle’s reception class […]
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The Daddy Daughter Dance sponsored by Girl Scouts. This year the theme was extra fun…Masquerade Ball. Living in China makes it easy to get a costume. We decided this was the year to really have fun with the dress. We went to the fabric market with the Humes Family. We had researched […]
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We had a surprise dinner guest last night…Mac. He was in Shanghai for one night on his way back to Texas. It was fun to see him. Jim and I see more of him (and Pat) in China than we do in the USA. The girls really warmed up to him. Even Elle was […]
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Elle had accidentally open our family website the other day while playing a computer game. Hum, the last entry was December 2006. Where did all that time go? Wow, look how little Elle WAS!! My friend, Susan, moved to Switzerland three years ago with her husband and two young children. She has the most […] |