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Taiwan Fact: Taiwanese children score an average 3% greater cuteness than the rest of the world's. I imagine it must have something to do with the unusually high population density. There ain't enough room for the uggos!
In America, when "juice" isn't really all juice, the rest is usually stuff to make it taste all awesome, like high-fructose corn syrup. In Taiwan, the rest must be paper pulp or something. There are 32 fruits and vegetables in this 70% juice drink and I can't read what the rest is, but it's taste suggests that the flavor is not in the remaining 30%'s consideration. Back to 100% varieties tomorrow.
Our current unit is family/Mother's Day. One of the sentence patterns we're learning is "What will you do for your mom?" The two given responses are "Clean the house," and "Make her a card." But, as that's pretty lame, I make my kids come up with their own. There were several dinosaur-related responses, Eason will catch a cloud, Hugh will eat the Earth.
(Emma's mom's name is Annie)
As I posted my last blog, Jordan got her first haircut since we met. As it was happening, it felt like a snail's pace, but in less than a year we went from strangers to L-word flinging near-cohabitants. As we've grown closer, I couldn't see that my trap was being sprung in slow motion. All the fluctuations on the way could only slow her falling in love with me- ha! Yes!
When I returned to her house to admire her new haircut (which, it was decided, makes her look more European, more Taiwanese, more mature and more like a five-year-old), she and Kiah we cleaning up the house. A while ago, Jordan said she missed playing Super Nintendo and I'd been sitting on that as a gift idea for months. I gave up waiting and bought a USB gamepad and downloaded snes9x and all the games ever made for it. As they finished cleaning I set it up and was running Super Mario World on their tv by the time they were done. We smoked pot and ate the Korean take-out I'd brought and played Nintendo the way Gawd intended. The point of this paragraph is to illustrate that mine is a life envied by all living things (even though I accidentally deleted the Minish Cap saved game I've been playing for months this morning).
In America, when "juice" isn't really all juice, the rest is usually stuff to make it taste all awesome, like high-fructose corn syrup. In Taiwan, the rest must be paper pulp or something. There are 32 fruits and vegetables in this 70% juice drink and I can't read what the rest is, but it's taste suggests that the flavor is not in the remaining 30%'s consideration. Back to 100% varieties tomorrow.
Our current unit is family/Mother's Day. One of the sentence patterns we're learning is "What will you do for your mom?" The two given responses are "Clean the house," and "Make her a card." But, as that's pretty lame, I make my kids come up with their own. There were several dinosaur-related responses, Eason will catch a cloud, Hugh will eat the Earth.
(Emma's mom's name is Annie)
As I posted my last blog, Jordan got her first haircut since we met. As it was happening, it felt like a snail's pace, but in less than a year we went from strangers to L-word flinging near-cohabitants. As we've grown closer, I couldn't see that my trap was being sprung in slow motion. All the fluctuations on the way could only slow her falling in love with me- ha! Yes!
When I returned to her house to admire her new haircut (which, it was decided, makes her look more European, more Taiwanese, more mature and more like a five-year-old), she and Kiah we cleaning up the house. A while ago, Jordan said she missed playing Super Nintendo and I'd been sitting on that as a gift idea for months. I gave up waiting and bought a USB gamepad and downloaded snes9x and all the games ever made for it. As they finished cleaning I set it up and was running Super Mario World on their tv by the time they were done. We smoked pot and ate the Korean take-out I'd brought and played Nintendo the way Gawd intended. The point of this paragraph is to illustrate that mine is a life envied by all living things (even though I accidentally deleted the Minish Cap saved game I've been playing for months this morning).