I finally settled on repainting the apartment afresh, with two 'helpers', actually creating more hassles for me than helping, but they were eager 'helpers'.
Painting itself was fast, but to air each room after painting took several days. The place now looks like new!
She is better with single digit addition than subtraction. When it comes to subtraction questions, she just add a vertical stroke to turn the subtraction sign to addtion sign and answer the questions as additon questions.
The pencils in photos are her calculation aid. Kristine is often her tutor, correcting her homework, with frequent scolding towards Kimmie;s mistakes.
She promised she wouldnt cry, and she didnt.
When one of her ex- female classmates starting crying before taking the shot, Kimmie started to feel nervous and refused to take her jacket and cardigan off. She fought tooth and nail, but eventually losing to the stornger father's arms. As she struggled within my locking embrace, she insisted on looking the needle poking into her left arm, contrary to advice given. BUT SHE DID NOT CRY!
A Mini Mouse chocolate bar as reward, imported by Xiaogugu from Tokyo.
We walked 1.5km home, instead of taking the kindergarten van with the other kids.
Attached photo taken with Kimmie's previous kinder teacher Ms Liu.
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Her new kinder is operated by a Canadian guy and her Chinese wife, assisted by a full time Chinese teacher and a part time Filipina (English) teacher. Maximum class size is limited to 12 but it currently has just 8 kids of various ages.
Maybe it is still fresh but Kimmie is eager to goto kinder early each morning. However, she still clings to a teacher during playtime outdoor. We shall see if the small class size will make Kimmie more relaxed and outgoing. Morgan managed to squeeze a loud answer from Kimmie yesterday duing playtime. That is a good start.
We can see Little Squirts play, twice a day, in the open from our windows. Two days ago, while Kimmie stayed detached watching other kids play, she slolwly walked towards our apartment entry hallway (I wanted to go home!). The Chinese assistant ran to grab her back.
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These are our conversation after school on Wednesday:
"Did nurses come to your school (to adminster the injections)?"
"No, that was done in a hospital."
"How did you goto the hospital?"
"In the same school bus that took me to school."
"Whats the name of the hospital?"
"I dont know. It looked old and '烂' (decrepit)."
"Did any of classmates cry?"
"4 cried before the injection because they were nervous, but nobody cried after that".
"Did you distribute your chocolate bars to your friends who didnt cry?"
"Yes. None of them cry."
This article came from Bloomberg today:
"Seasonal flu shots didn't protect against the new swine flu strain that's now responsible for 99.6 percent of U.S. infections, according to a federal study".
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=a.HdTk60eNz0
For Kristine (and soon Kimberley as well), her next flu reaction should not be ordinary seasonal flu.
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Nevertheless, because Kristine's temp went to 37.5degC (up to 38 the next day), she had to take the mandatory '8-count' and stayed home for 7 days (Cut off is 37.3degC for all school kids). Both are now back to normal. They will return to school and kinder on Wednesday.
Both have registered for flu shots at schools. Kristine will get hers on Wednesday, and Kimberley a few days later. Both have stuffed their school bags with candies and chocs for classmates who are brave for the injections. I suspect they will have the lion shares of the goodies, even before the injection just to calm their own nerves.
Since mid October, after returning from the week long National Day holidays, Kimberley's class was closed for two weeks, and a class in Kristine;s grade was closed for a week.
More face masks are now spotted in public. The flu season is kicking into high gear. Flu vaccine manufacturers listed on local stock exchanges went up some 30-50% last week.
Kimmie is still very devoted to animal watching but Kristine is pass that age.
Kimmie's class, having being barred from kinder last two weeks to prevent spread of foot and mouth, and not having much practice, came in last of three classes, a distant last....
