Adventures By Design

Hi everyone! It’s that time of year again when we come to Canada and have a mad month or so of intense visiting. This year we’re planning on going to Ontario to introduce Aria to Gin’s clan. Other than that, we’ll be in Vancouver, Kamloops, and Calgary. Unfortunately, this year we have to be back at school in early August (!?), so it will be a shorter visit than we’d like.

Here are our (tentative) plans for this summer. (You might have to click on the arrows to find the month you want.)

Yes, I know that New Year’s Day was a week ago, I’ve been a little busy (and lazy).

It’s been a busy couple of days. We’ve been trying to get our apartment marginally organized before the painters come, and packing and preparing for our trip to Canada.

Inca isn’t coming with us to Canada this time.

So today was the end of our first year teaching in China.  I’m exhausted after getting my kids out the door with all their stuff, and then packing up all of my stuff.  I wanted to write about the day though, to remember how it feels.

The school year is almost over here in Suzhou. (Yes, it’s July 1st and we’re still teaching; Friday is our last day)  Things are really busy with trying to get everything finished and packed up.

At school this week my grade had a poetry and coffee morning with the parents to share some work the students have been doing on our last unit, and to have a chance for the parents to come in one last time. It was a pretty relaxed occasion and went over really well.  Most of my class’ mothers came (most mothers here don’t work so they’ve got loads of time to come in for school events) and I think I took a photo which each of their kids, once one parent did it they all thought it was a fantastic idea so we had an impromptu photo shoot.

Here are our (tentative) plans for this summer. You might have to click on the arrows to find the month you want.