I thought I'd share some random pictures and a rundown of our last week. Chris played a gig at a bar called Nashville with The Crazy Bads, an embassy rock band. Ethan visited Love and Hope, a school for the children of migrant workers. He and his classmates supported the school in their make an impact project and were able to donate almost $200 to the school by serving as busboys in the cafeteria and hosting a Nerf Gun event at school. The entire project was kid driven and I only saw the finished presentation. Very cool! Alex had to work hard the past few weeks to finish up projects, but also got to do some fun stuff as well including a trip to Pingyao. Violet had her kindergarten swim party and is ready for summer! And our big excitement this week was the arrival of our car. Now I need to get to driving it. It is exciting how much that opens up our world. So many new places to explore! My big activities have been exploring and shopping. Check out this neat basket and bowl from a local furniture factory. They make their pieces with salvaged wood. They have some gorgeous armoires and hutong doors that I'm coveting, but I stuck with the baskets today. I also biked to a local tile factory with friends and grabbed these nifty guys. They are traditionally used on rooftops here and have symbolic and important meanings. The company I bought them from also makes the roof tiles in the Forbidden City.
1. YAY for wheels!!
ReplyDelete2. Is that tarp in the background the one I heard about to keep the air quality as good as possible for school sports?
3. I think the big project was the PYP final? Our daughter did one there too for 5th grade - a business plan, fund raiser, and then a community project business plan and implementation with the funds raised from their business plan. Such a cool thing for a 5th grader to be involved with!! And it's all done at school!!!
4. Congratulations on so many big steps accomplished at post! Sounds like everyone is getting settled just wonderfully!
Nomads: Yes, that picture was taken in the domes which they built to allow kids outdoor time even on poor air quality days. They are HUGE with a lawn, track, tennis courts, etc. They opened them right around the time they arrive and they use them on poor air quality days. There is a middle school/high school sport one and an elementary school one.
ReplyDeleteYes, it sounds like the same project that your daughter participated in. It was very cool and I love how kid-driven it was.
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