Monday Week Three!!

Jocelyn Writes:

Another Monday --and the start of our third week here. We have finally developed a bit of a rhythm to our lives…My daily activities are pretty mundane on their face (taking the kids to school, going to the gym, food shopping, Chinese class with the kids…) but as you might imagine---seeing as how they are all conducted in Chinese, there are aspects to these daily activities (as Gavi and Ayden have described) that are anything but mundane and routine. Gavi was feeling a bit under the weather today so we gave her a day off from blogging.

Take care all—

Fondly, Joc


Ayden Writes:

Today I went to school. My Mom walked me to my class room. All of my classmates greeted me. Then my teacher began class. First we had Chinese. Yesterday it snowed and everything was wet so we didn’t do morning exercises. My next subject was math. After math we had computers. My teacher wanted me to teach English to her teacher friends. It was fun. They asked me how old I was and how old my brother and sister are. I replied “I am nine, almost ten.” They asked me “When is your birthday?” “March 7th” I said. “Would you like us to bake you a cake?” they asked. “I don’t care” I said. “Then, we will!” they said. Then my Mom picked me up from school. We ate lunch in the cafeteria.

After lunch, I had an hour break then my tutor came to our dorm. We studied animals. We played charades in Chinese with the animals we learned. Right before she left, she sang Moli Hua which is a folk song about a Jasmine flower. After that beautiful song, my tutor came into my room and asked my sister if she was okay because she was sick today. And that was all I did today.

--Ayden