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Bindi sent a text to me today telling me Emersyn had one of her school paintings in the Shanghai Daily – “Did I know?” – “No.” It was in the supplement section on education. Jim was able to pull the photo of her painting from the paper’s web site.

Emersyn painting in the […]

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At Concordia, all middle and high school students required studies include an interim trip. Emersyn’s 6th grade interim trip is to Xian.

Xian (西安) in the name Xi’an literally mean “Western Peace”. One of the oldest cities in China, with more than 3, 100 years of history, the city was known as […]

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The circus came to Shanghai – the fancy one! We saw Cirque Du Soleil – Saltimbanco with our friends, the Jenkins and the Bishops.

Emersyn & Avery

Lili spent the night last night and LEFT Fluffy. By chance, Lili and family were going to the circus tonight, also. We took Fluffy to […]

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It was a beautiful afternoon for walk by the River. The River is one block from our complex gate. Roxi loved exploring the Huangpu River.

The Huangpu River (黄浦江; literally “Yellow Bank River”) is a 82.5 km long river in China flowing through Shanghai. It is the last significant tributary of the Yangtze […]

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We have a new Chinese workout area located next to our building. This area had old workout equipment with sand. We called it the “sand pit” as our children dug and played in the sand. No one used the equipment, but kids. Over the summer, the workout area was replaced with all new equipment. […]

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It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon. The girls and I took Roxi out to play soccer. The teams were Emersyn and Roxi against Eleri and me. Emersyn and Roxi out scored us – how did that happen!!

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Eleri had fun dressing up like her Thailand doll. Always fun on a lazy Sunday morning.

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Stefan, our German friend from Hong Kong that lives in Switzerland, was in town for business. We had four days of California fun with Stefan and Karin this summer. See German Greetings in California.

Stefan arrived Tuesday morning for meetings. I picked Stefan up at his hotel which was very close to our […]

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Texas Cousin, Robert, was in Shanghai for a quick business trip. Robert and his boss, Vince, arrived on Tuesday for meetings. On Wednesday night, Jim took them out for spicy Chinese food and beers. Jim and Robert stayed out until 3am…on a work night!

On Thursday, we picked Robert and Vince up for […]