Going Live for the World
At the planning meeting yesterday for the book signing event at Uptown Park, I learned that the sponsors will have a professional photographer and a professional videographer there. They intend to interview Ping and Cici and me live at the event, combine the interview scenes with video splices and photos, and put it all out there on the Internet to promote the book. That will be nice because our family and friends in China can watch it and feel like they were part of something special in our lives.
The next three weeks are chock full of important events. The adoption and name change and citizenship next week. The book signing event the following week. Final exams the week after that. Then it will feel like summer time is here. Speaking of which, we received the information about summer school options yesterday. Cici and I looked at it and it doesn't look too promising to me.
The classes are understandably designed for those who have already taken the courses but failed them. That allows the courses to be completed in about three weeks. Cici and I agreed that there is no way she can learn world history in three weeks. That would be a massive amount of reading in a very short time. It would be foolish to put her under that kind of stress, and she would end up not learning much about world history anyway.
Maybe geometry, we decided. So I will talk with the person at Cici's school who must approve any summer school courses before they can be taken. She is quite experienced and should be able to give us some good advice.
So I learned a new Chinese word yesterday, and I will teach it to you. This time it is a Cantonese word. This word is easy to remember and pronounce because it is just like the word "guy" in English. It means "chicken." KFGuy, I told Ping jokingly, practicing with the word. Then I used it with Cici to be sure that Ping was being straight with me about its meaning. Not that I don't trust her, but she does enjoy a good joke, and it would be just like her to trick me with a new word.
The next three weeks are chock full of important events. The adoption and name change and citizenship next week. The book signing event the following week. Final exams the week after that. Then it will feel like summer time is here. Speaking of which, we received the information about summer school options yesterday. Cici and I looked at it and it doesn't look too promising to me.
The classes are understandably designed for those who have already taken the courses but failed them. That allows the courses to be completed in about three weeks. Cici and I agreed that there is no way she can learn world history in three weeks. That would be a massive amount of reading in a very short time. It would be foolish to put her under that kind of stress, and she would end up not learning much about world history anyway.
Maybe geometry, we decided. So I will talk with the person at Cici's school who must approve any summer school courses before they can be taken. She is quite experienced and should be able to give us some good advice.
So I learned a new Chinese word yesterday, and I will teach it to you. This time it is a Cantonese word. This word is easy to remember and pronounce because it is just like the word "guy" in English. It means "chicken." KFGuy, I told Ping jokingly, practicing with the word. Then I used it with Cici to be sure that Ping was being straight with me about its meaning. Not that I don't trust her, but she does enjoy a good joke, and it would be just like her to trick me with a new word.
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