Concordia has a charity of the month. This year Concordia’s theme is “Discover”. Emersyn charity of choice is Baobei. Baobei means “precious child”. Baobei is an organization that provides surgeries for children with special needs. Baobei places many of these children into “Healing Homes” as they await adoption. Plastic water jugs are located throughout campus to collect “wu mao” (small change) to make a big difference in the lives of the small children who benefit from the program that provides life changing surgery for children with birth defects.

Emersyn has baked for this charity for the past two years. This year, the month began with spring break and conferences. Then, Emersyn was off to Kuala Lumpur (KL) for Model United Nations (MUN). She was getting requests for her cupcakes from classmates as the month was slipping away. I baked a batch for her on Monday to take to school when she returned home from KL. The cupcakes were gone by Wednesday with students pre-ordering cupcakes. Wednesday was a full day at school for me with a parenting class, a field trip and fencing. The last thing I wanted to do a 8pm at night was make cupcakes, but I did (someday she will appreciate this). Thursday cupcakes were gone in 5 minutes. No cupcakes for Friday as Emersyn had too much homework and I had no time. The weekend we made a double batch of cupcakes…gone in less than 10 minutes on Monday. A single batch for Tuesday and a final double batch for Wednesday…whew, a lot of baking in the last two weeks! I am ready to put my mixer away until May 31!

With her little cupcake business from the lunch cafeteria, Emersyn made a total of 2, 300rmb ($367) in two weeks. Last year for the month, she made 2, 500rmb ($403). Well, it appears I did a whole month of baking in two weeks.