Finding Home
For some reason the font size on this blog doesn't want to cooperate on my MacBook, so here I go again with tiny characters. Maybe I can increase the size when I finish.
It looks like the girls have roped me into a fishing trip tomorrow afternoon. Out on a boat, no less. So I asked them if they have ever been fishing. No, they said. They just want to see the lake. Well you can't go out on a boat with other people fishing and not try to catch a fish, I told them. But I have client meetings in the morning which pushes the departure time into the afternoon. And the lake isn't just around the corner. By the time we get to the lake the fish won't be biting, even if they were biting in the morning, is my bet. So in the end, the girls will probably get their wish. They will get to see the lake.
I took the girls to a large dim sum restaurant in Chinatown today. There must have been a couple of hundred people there in the huge room. I only saw one other lao wei (foreigner). The rest of the people there were Chinese. You haven't seen this many Chinese people since you left China, have you? I asked Cici. She smiled and shook her head in agreement. Then she mentioned again that she is excited about visiting China this summer. I am not excited about going, Ping said. I went back last year so I don't miss it now, Ping continued. And she was serious. The change for her is complete. This is her home.
Quit playing with the font sizes!
Glad to read that Ping has been converted!
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I can't read those tiny characters. Well, I can read them but I can read the larger ones more quickly.
I am guessing that Cici will also convert after spending time back in China this summer. She will have fun and be thrilled for a few weeks, but then she will remember all the good things about living here and China will begin losing some of its luster is my bet. Even now she has no desire to return to China again for at least two years.
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I can't read the tiny characters either! Sometimes they are just about microscopic! Perhaps the IT people can set a default font size that is big enough to read without having to resize all of the text on the page.
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