Jun 18 2008
The gap year is popular in the UK, but only a very handful kids would do it in the US. Not sure mine would opt for this path.
Few weeks ago, Pumpkin asked if she could go to a tutor summer school for bio and math. I was ashamed: shouldn’t we the parents pushing our kid for [...]
May 29 2008
Tonight is her school dinner dance night (the gas is at $4.51). We went to shopping couple of weeks ago, she found a cute dress that fits her perfectly, simply pretty. My little girl is a young lady now. It’s pretty lame to say that time flies, but it is. As if it’s still yesterday when she [...]
May 28 2008
King likes history. He asked me what history course should he take in his sophomore year, World or European. I teased him, how about Chinese history? He replied, “Mom, there isn’t one.” I know, I know. Our school language department has expanded to inlcude Chinese in the middle school, but history curriculum hasn’t changed. Asia is [...]
May 05 2008
Our school’s web provides many info that used to reach us va snail mails or phone calls, now in a timely manner. Sounds great, but do we parents need to know all of those, and have they implemented those in a timely manner?
Many years ago, I was more involved with school and the community, joined few committees. One of [...]
May 02 2008
King’s been practicing piano a lot lately without being asked, to my surprise! It’s really the sound of music to my ears :). Yesterday after Lee left, I asked how did the lesson go. "It’s ok." Ou? "Every once in a while I’ll get a boring lesson." I can’t [...]
Apr 29 2008
Surprisingly I met a group of girls from Maryland at the Massanutten in Virginia. This resort at Shenandoah Valley is neither known for golfers nor tennis players. It used to have a 9-hole short course now expanded into 18 holes and an 18-hole. The short course was much nicer before the expansion, now inter-linked with roads. Golfers have to [...]
Apr 04 2008
I don’t like to run, so have no idea as what they’re talking about, but swimming gets me high, no any other sport could or would, tennis doesn’t even come close, so I know what they’re talking about. The feeling after a swimming is that you can take on the www, whole wide world, !!
Yesterday I [...]
Mar 25 2008
J came to play cards this past Sunday. I haven’t seen her for a good few years. Last time was at a ski resort, we had hot pot and well, played cards in the evenings. She just got divorced then, and the older son (now sophomore in college) lives with dad and she took the [...]
Mar 24 2008
I sure go that extra mile to amuse my kids: pick them up in a police car. Ok, confession: I got into a minor accident in the parking lot, my car had to be towed. Police came to write up the report. I had to ask him for a ride picking up my kid. Didn’t know if King wanted [...]
Feb 24 2008
Tanglewood 1997
Peter Newton (1926-2008), a Brit, the founder of this vineyard had just passed away. He’s credited with putting the vocabulary of Merlot and Chardonnay into ordinary Americans who otherwise only knew wine as red and white. We falling in love with Sterling’s Chardonnay at the Lexon when we attended the BSO at Tanglewood that summer [...]
Dec 21 2007
SSsigh .. sign .. Lee was giving lesson and said that before I knew it, King’ll be off to college. .. .. King replied, “don’t worry, my mom will get a job at that college .. .. teaching something ..” paused, looked thoughtful, “but only certain jobs .. not teaching English .. ” then turned to me, “Mom, [...]
Nov 24 2007
My school bag had always been within the reasonable limit, manageable weight. One might argue that during my time learning wasn’t important. King’s bag weight more than a mountain, I simply had to tense up to barely lift it off the ground. I wondered how could he walk around like carrying a tissue box, what [...]
Oct 31 2007
I had the feeling that this will be the last year of the hunt. Not sure each year that we give out more than the kids brought in, or vise versa. The very first year we attended Chinese school, one of the mothers was distributing hard candies (some looked really gross, old, half wrapped ..) [...]
Oct 06 2007
Pumpkin came home all sweaty and tired. She lost her match last week but won hers today, against a 10th grade boy. I’m happy for her: the match could have gone either way. “He made a lot of mistakes.” Mental toughness’ deciding point there.
After no to take up with Barry again, she enrolled with one of [...]
Sep 24 2007
King visited his new pediatrician today, a Dr has an office in town whose 4 kids also go to the same school as King. He looks like Karl Roves a lot, and is humorous. He asked what sports does King do after seeing his weight registering 164 lb. Golf. Dr pressed, no no, I meant sport, [...]
Sep 20 2007
Open house at the high school, met all his teachers.
Science teacher is a short no nonsense lady, with straight blonde hair and glasses. I wondered out loud why haven’t I receiving any phone calls since he comes home every day without homework. “He’s doing fine.” Math teacher was the only one who introduced herself: “I was born in [...]