Lucas is in the PreK class here and his teacher Ms Ruta is fantastic!!! She came here with us as a "newbie" and we have become friends. Lucas is friends with her daughter. They have Chinese class each day, PE, Music, and even Library. The class is a mix of 3 and 4 year olds, so Lucas (and his friend, Monty, who is another newbie teacher kid) are the oldest and clearly the most mature. They both would have been fine in kindergarten, but they are very strict with the age limit. Its ok though, they have buddied up and are the "big kids" in class.
Beijing has been good. We got bikes and ride to work most days (3 miles each way). We've been blessed with several "good air" days over the past week. Watching the pollution level is definitely a new thing to do. Lucas is learning to read a bar graph this way though. He will take one look and say "wow, that's really good air Mom" or the opposite, "Oh No! Its really bad today." Our apartment complex is a little ways away from the busy street, so its quiet here and there are many, many, many paths, ponds and lot of greenery at the complex. Its beautiful! The ponds have lily pads, waterfalls, and goldfish. Its so serene! I packed a lot of things that I was thinking I wouldn't be able to find, but they are all here, except Lucas' foods. Its been hard to find some things, and when we do they are RIDICULOUSLY expensive,like the $12 box of cocoa puffs we've been buying, or the similarly priced pancake mix....but, with they HUGE transition, I have not pushed the food thing, and have just been giving him his comfort foods.
Last
weekend we went to the Acrobats at ChaoYang theater and the Beijing Zoo
to see the pandas. We are thinking about maybe
going to the Forbidden City this weekend, but we shall see, its been
such a busy two weeks! My kids are great though, I have 12 kids, from
all over the world....8 countries are represented in my class of
students. It's amazing!
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