October 25
It has been stinking hot since....forever here! Probably since April or May. Finally on Thursday night, there was a big fight in the sky between the hot front and the cold front. We woke up to crisp breezes and a beautiful blue sky. Felt like Alberta in the Rockies. Gorgeous! Many new families have moved into our community. The building of a new Airbus plant in Tianjin has brought many Europeans to our neighborhood. I've been joking that our street looks like the Champs de L'Eysees with all of the French families that have moved in. I better brush up on the French I learned as a child at my Canadian elementary school...Gaston Gavroche mangez le gateau chocolat.
Here's some of our latest news:
- Nick was one of ten students chosen from his school to attend the first ever ACAMIS (Association of China and Mongolia Internatioinal Schools) Student Leadership Summit in Shanghai on November 7th and 8th. Secondary students from international schools from across China will be attending. Nick gets to fly on an airplane and stay in a hotel. He's very excited.
- The twins just got back from a 3 day field trip to Cheng De. I'm still not exactly sure where that is. They were on a bus for 6 hours. They did pass through Beijing at one point. They got to stay in a hotel, too. The teachers looked really tired at the end of the trip. But they all came back happy, and that's the main thing.
- We have 2 Australian boys staying at our house this weekend, Ace and Lucien, from the Australian International School of Hong Kong. They are playing in the ACAMIS volleyball tournament, which our school is hosting this year. Two of the politest boys we've ever met! Reminds me of the days when we used to take in hockey billets during tournaments in Canada.
- We're trying to plan our Christmas vacation. We've never been to Malaysia before, so we might head there. We're hoping to meet up with our British friends, Matt, Donna and Ellie Newman. We were so close in Peoria, Illinois many years ago before we all started moving around the world. The Newman's live in Singapore now. It'll be great to catch up with them if we're able to coordinate this thing.
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