Jianadaren bu pa leng

That’s right, Canadians aren’t afraid of the cold. Or at least they aren’t supposed to be. Nico might be in danger of losing his citizenship. The temperature this afternoon was near to 20C and yet everyone still had on their winter coats. I don’t get it. So I decided Luke and I would upset the locals. We both wore shirts and shorts today. Poor Nico, who has been here for a year looks to be going native. At least he didn’t have his winter coat on this afternoon. That being said, I might be going about it the wrong way. If I think 20C is warm how will I cope with 45C? I suppose the locals will have their revenge when I am wilting in the heat.

Apologies

Sorry about all the empty posts. I thought when I uploaded video blogs to wordpress it would work. If you want to see them all look on facebook. They are really pretty cool.
Kyle

Sleeping babies

Me and my boy

Communal snack

On Fridays everyone brings something to share

A murse

That is his name at the bottom. Every man in china needs a murse

Dan Dan, Wo ai ni

I’m sure, if Luke knew how to say it, this is what he would say everyday at school. Dan Dan 丹 丹, which means really red or vermillion, is Luke’s favorite teacher. She seems to like him too and gives him treats almost every day. Wo ai ni is “I love you” and I think it is safe to say Luke has his first crush. He says her name all the time and asks where she is. I have no idea what is going to happen when school ends this week and he doesn’t get to see her anymore. In two weeks, after spring festival, he starts at his new school. I have to say though, at least he picked the cute teacher to have a crush on.

Crazy about Jianada (that’s Canada for those of you who don’t speak Chinese)

So it finally happened, my access to wordpress through my iPhone app got blocked. Fortunately there is another way which I won’t talk about. At least if this works I can still update. Might be easier too. But I digress
Today at school the kids were given leaves to make fish out of on paper. It would have looked pretty cool with a nice maple leaf for the tail (you can see where this is going right?)
Well to draw the bubbles that all fish make (obviously not marine biologists) Luke got a red crayon. Who am I to pass up this chance. Since jianada is luke’s favorite word in Chinese we made a jianada flag. He was a hit. Not conforming in a Chinese school did cause a few problems but they got over it. Here is the result

Stunt show

Obviously I missed the memo about it being trick competition day at school. First it was Luke doing barrel roles
In the barrel and then Evelyn doing the same. Then, Luke took to standing on the rocking horse. Which of course meant Evelyn had to show off her riding skills.
I don’t have pictures of everything but there is a video of Evelyn and Anita on the horses on Facebook.
Things finished nicely though with all 4 kids playing together and not trying to kill eachother, or themselves.

This flight is jow long?

My advice for 9 hour daytime flights with kids. Just don’t do it. Period. Luke slept for about an hour and complained for the other 8. Evelyn slept for 2 and fussed for 7. Good fun.

In the end we survived although it was definately a time that I did not like my children very much but could still remember to love them. Just.

Fortunately we made or insnaly tight connection in Tokyo too. As our plane pulled in Linds joked how wouldn’t it be funny if that plane next to us was our flight? It was. As I sit now on the flight winging it’s way to shanghai I hope sweet Luke will fall asleep so that I can sleep and recover as well.

Now we all sit in Shanghai waiting for our last flight. The flight from Tokyo was ok and Luke finally slept. The flight out if shanghai was cancelled but we got put on an earlier flight which gets us home a bit sooner, we hope. I guess we will know when we arrive.