Judy is out with the 2nd graders for “Day 3” of their “BISS on the Road” activities. Their project is “Community, Past and Present”. They start off with Kung Fu lessons from a master teacher who comes to the school. Then they get a calligraphy lesson from a renowned retired artist. After their morning activities, they board a bus. They arrive at a park area built near the Olympic sites, celebrating the history and culture of the 56 minorities that populate China.
Judy said it was about the size of the “Countries” area at Epcot. Each minority had it’s own village/cultural section, and the students spent the afternoon walking through the displays. Judy was amazed at the size and scope of the park. Again, it was another case of a really cool area that we’re going back to visit. We’ve got quite a list developing.
I spend the morning preparing for our shipment of clothes, teaching supplies, and misc. items. They arrive at 1:00 pm, on schedule. The movers are very efficient and careful as the boxes come in. It takes about 40 minutes for everything to be unboxed, the boxes removed, and the movers are out the door. The rest of the afternoon is spent taking clothes out of bags, and moving them to the room where I think they’ll end up. Until we see everything we have, we can’t make decisions on where it will end up.
Judy gets home, and after a short recovery from a day of walking with students, she begins sorting and pushing. It seems like half of what we brought was bottles of bathroom stuff. We were told we would have problems finding our favorite shampoos, etc., so bring extras. We did! We timed it pretty well, because we were beginning to get near the end of our original supplies, hauled to Beijing in our suitcases in July. We get enough sorted to find our bed and allow Lillie to clean around it all tomorrow. Probably the only sights we’ll see this weekend will be closets and drawers. Since Judy has 7 plastic totes full of teaching supplies, we’ll be spending time at BISS, too, unpacking whatever we can transport in a few taxi rides. This is definitely a time when having our own car would be convenient.