I was helping G out with her "homework" this morning and was wowed yet again. The directions across the top of the page read something like "Circle and color the foods that are healthy." As food is one of my favorite things we talk a ton about it here at home so this task is no problem for her. We circled the fruits and vegetables, the milk etc and decided that the french fries, little candies and some jello mold looking bundt cake thing were not healthy enough to circle and color.

So here's the crazy part--of the five healthy things we worked on, two of them were only ever referred to in Mandarin the whole time. Rice and corn. The words "rice" and "corn" never came out of her mouth. She only talked about them as "yumi" (corn) and "mi fan" (rice). Very neat!

Today, since it's the last day of the month, the kids at her school get to dress up in costumes and non-uniform clothes for the monthly party. However, no one tells the new people anything, so I had no idea until I sent her off on a bus loaded with kids all dressed up. The look on her face was so awful! And I'm sure the look on mine wasn't much different. I came back upstairs into my apartment, grabbed one of her princess dresses and speed walked over to the school to deliver it. She was ecstatic! It was cute. After the torrential rain yesterday, today is gorgeous! It's a good thing because yesterday I probably would not have been so quick to decide to take her a change of clothes in that pouring rain.

I am trying to talk B into taking the kids to Kowloon tomorrow. That's where our mail from the USA is delivered and there's a playground I really want to take the kids to. And we've been needing to do some market shopping for various random things that you buy in markets. Like a clock and extension cords and a huge pot/kettle for beer brewing.

We have this children's book called "Gai See, What you Can see in Chinatown" and the kids love it. They always pretend to go inside it when we read it. They say they want to go in that world. I am so excited to actually take them to that world. I hope they can hang. And I hope no one barfs.