Asher has been going to Chinese school once a week for the last few Saturdays. We’re gradually helping him through the separation anxiety and the idea of sitting in a classroom.
The main purposes of this are that he gets used to school for when he goes to “normal” school, and also that he keeps up with the Chinese.
Please pray for us that Asher continues to grow in these areas.
Hi all,
Really, not much to report. Hence, I’m not reporting. As you probably know, on returning from China a few months ago I was able to visit Japan and Singapore. Hopefully in a few months we’ll be going away again soon. So here I am in the middle. Working. Enjoying weekends. Etc. I’ve also been playing computer games with Asher. We use a logitech precision gamepad:
Asher’s getting very used to using it. I’ve used some freeware to map the keyboard to its buttons for those games which only have keyboard input.
Did you know there will be a new Astroboy movie? See the site, complete with 2 trailers here. Looking forward to it. Hopefully there’ll be a Chinese version coming out around the same time for us to show Asher.
Ever heard of the acronym WRGPYDKNEO? This stands for:
White - 白色
Red - 红色
Green - 浅绿色
Purple - 紫色
Yellow - 黄色
Dark green - 深绿色
blacK - 黑色
browN - 棕色
bluE - 蓝色
Orange - 橙色
These are small plastic rods each of which are assigned a number from 1 to 10. We’re trying these as a method for teaching Asher basic maths.
See the Wikipedia article on the subject here.
Ying and Asher take the train.
We bought these chopsticks at the National Gallery of Victoria shop. Asher got into them straight away. I’ve got other pictures of Asher using real chopsticks quite some time ago, and even a video. I’ll have to see what I can do about posting those too.
Above is a picture of Asher doing his daily study. I’m so proud of him. I look forward to going home so that I can be with him again.
Although he speaks and understands the Mandarin language, culturally he is being brought up as a combination of Australian and Singaporean.
If only I could read this well to Asher!
Check out this animation (seems to work better in IE than Firefox):
Today Asher & I are home sick. Asher’s watching Chinese Teletubbies and I’m at a bit of a loss for something productive to do.
The above is a picture of Asher in Japan.
Recently I’ve been using Supermemo to memorise stuff I need to know for work. It’s a pretty cool program, but it has a learning curve in itself. Very powerful for those who know what they’re doing, unlike me.
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