Ready to Play
Papa, I have to play my flute in the school competitions next Saturday at 8:30 a.m., Cici told me last night. So early, I said. Yes, I have to play first, she responded. Not a good thing for her, I was thinking. That means she needs to warm up around 8:00 a.m., so we need to get to the school around 7:45, so I have to get her out of bed around 6:45 on a Saturday morning. All this for a 10 minute competition.
What I worry about is that this is the same day as her second audition at HSPVA, but that audition isn't until 2:20 p.m. My bet is that Cici will be back in bed asleep before 9:30 a.m., which means she will have to go through the waking up process again when I come home from the office. But maybe this will be good practice, and by the time 2:20 p.m. rolls around, maybe she will be well rested and ready to play.
Ping had a long conversation with someone on the telephone last evening. So long that Cici and I were laughing at how long she was talking. When she finished her conversation, she came to our home office to tell me about it. She was excited because she was talking with a company in China that wants our law firm to handle investor visas for its clients who want to move to America. There are many wealthy people in China who want their children to attend school in America, she told me, and the investor visa will give their children this opportunity.
This sounds like an opportunity for you, I suggested to Cici. You can be the American tutor for these Chinese students when they arrive in America. When their parents learn how well you have done in school, and how well you have adapted to living in America, I bet they would be happy to pay you to tutor their children.
But first, it is an opportunity for our law firm. What Ping has done and is doing for us is nothing short of amazing. But she never forgets the family. This company I was talking to wants you to come to China, she told me. They will bring in many clients to meet you and listen to you talk about the investor visa. Your presence at such a meeting will give the company a lot of credibility, and it will ensure that we get a lot of new clients, she reasoned.
I can smell business, Ping told Cici and me. I know this will be very good for our law firm, she continued. I strongly suspect Ping is correct, and at the very least, she has guaranteed a tax deduction for our travel expenses. Now if we have the law firm set up "ESL and American Culture for Chinese Immigrants" classes as a marketing program for our law firm immigration practice, and if we put Cici in charge of that marketing program, and if the law firm pays her to speak at the meetings in China to promote those classes with our prospective investor visa clients and their families, I suspect that our CPA will include Cici's travel expenses as a deductible expense for the law firm as well.
Play on.
What I worry about is that this is the same day as her second audition at HSPVA, but that audition isn't until 2:20 p.m. My bet is that Cici will be back in bed asleep before 9:30 a.m., which means she will have to go through the waking up process again when I come home from the office. But maybe this will be good practice, and by the time 2:20 p.m. rolls around, maybe she will be well rested and ready to play.
Ping had a long conversation with someone on the telephone last evening. So long that Cici and I were laughing at how long she was talking. When she finished her conversation, she came to our home office to tell me about it. She was excited because she was talking with a company in China that wants our law firm to handle investor visas for its clients who want to move to America. There are many wealthy people in China who want their children to attend school in America, she told me, and the investor visa will give their children this opportunity.
This sounds like an opportunity for you, I suggested to Cici. You can be the American tutor for these Chinese students when they arrive in America. When their parents learn how well you have done in school, and how well you have adapted to living in America, I bet they would be happy to pay you to tutor their children.
But first, it is an opportunity for our law firm. What Ping has done and is doing for us is nothing short of amazing. But she never forgets the family. This company I was talking to wants you to come to China, she told me. They will bring in many clients to meet you and listen to you talk about the investor visa. Your presence at such a meeting will give the company a lot of credibility, and it will ensure that we get a lot of new clients, she reasoned.
I can smell business, Ping told Cici and me. I know this will be very good for our law firm, she continued. I strongly suspect Ping is correct, and at the very least, she has guaranteed a tax deduction for our travel expenses. Now if we have the law firm set up "ESL and American Culture for Chinese Immigrants" classes as a marketing program for our law firm immigration practice, and if we put Cici in charge of that marketing program, and if the law firm pays her to speak at the meetings in China to promote those classes with our prospective investor visa clients and their families, I suspect that our CPA will include Cici's travel expenses as a deductible expense for the law firm as well.
Play on.
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