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Tuesday, December 13: Travel to Down Under We arrived at the Shanghai airport for our 7:30pm flight to Sydney, Australia. After a quick check-in as the airport was quiet, we went to the food court for a Burger King dinner. The airport had the feel of a lonely Christmas as scene in a movie […]
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Eleri is our ES student with all the fun art. She came home with a Christmas card – my favorite kind, made by her with her handprint. Her hand keeps growing too big. When I am holding her hand, I tell her, “this is my favorite little hand”. Average […]
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I love Emersyn’s writing. She loves to read and it reflects in her writing assignments. This assignment was due before we left for the Christmas break. A Christmas Story by Emersyn Lyon “Dude! This Christmas is going to be so awesome!†Ty exclaimed as he and Dylan were skateboarding down the hill […]
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Eleri’s Christmas concert began at 6:30pm. This year for the first time the concert included grades k-4…that only means one thing – a long concert. I picked the girls up from school. We went to The Dragonfly to get our nails done before a quick dinner. After dinner and a change of clothes for […]
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The annual Children’s Christmas Party with the expat association, SEA (Shanghai Expat Association) is full of crafts and fun for the kids. Emersyn said no to going this year. Therefore, Jennifer and I took Eleri and Sophie – they still love to make “stuff”. The event is held at the Four Seasons […]
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Emersyn had her first band concert of the year. She dressed in her band concert attire of black pants and a white shirt. She looked very nice. Eleri dressed in a Christmas dress for the performance. The 6th grade band played four songs: Ding Dong Merry On […]
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Eleri had an assignment to make a musical instrument. Since she is the expert maker, she knew exactly what she wanted to do. She started with a kleenex box. After she painted all the corners brown, she was ready to put her idea together with a little help from Jim. They plugged in the […]
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We bring back our US food stash in boxes. Boxes weigh less than a suitcase – weight is very valuable, Eleri’s first comment, ” I want the boxes to make something”. She spend the weekend making a tunnel. She taped the boxes together. When she finished the tunnel, she added a name tag, a […]
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This year, we are spending Christmas in Australia. We promised the girls they could open presents before we left. Jim has uncertain travel expectations to India, therefore, we opened our presents extra early. Sine the girls and I went home for Halloween, family sent us back with Christmas gifts in October. Our little […] |