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The girls are always busy with activities because they enjoy them and because they are CHEAP. It makes a difference in saying yes. This semester’s schedule is as followed:

Monday: Elle tennis at 4pm & Emmy tennis at 5pm – 150rmb per girl ($22) Tuesday: Elle swim at 4pm & Emmy swim at […]

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Eleri’s first day of school. She is now a Year 1/Kindergarten student with a big girl uniform. It is similar to Emmy’s uniform. She is so proud of her new “costume”, as she calls it. She doesn’t even complain that the shirt is a little tough to go over her big head. I guess […]

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Emersyn’s first day of school. She in now a 4th grader, the big kids of the Elementary building. Where has the time gone? She has the same teacher, Mr. Gerlach, the same classroom and most of the same kids…easy year. I asked her if she wanted me to take her to school or did […]

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We arrived back to Shanghai on August 19. We live two lives. We drop back into our house in Los Gatos for the summer. The girls play with the neighbor kids and it all seems familiar. The only except is our house is beginning to feel temporary as we haven’t lived there is seven […]

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When we arrived in Shanghai, Emersyn become friends with Mimi & Kate. We called them the 3-musketeers and the terrific trio. The girls were together all through first and second grade…until Kate moved back to America.

Kate and her Mom, Mary Major came to visit for a week. They arrived the same day […]