Homeschool Shanghai

It’s been a long, long time since I last blog. It must have been somewhat outdated. I think I had to log in 3 times during these months of absence just to update WordPress and the respective pluggins. I’ve been so tied up these days, first juggling with my mom’s visit, my hubby’s operation in [...]

I was searching on information on myopia some days ago and found this report on China Daily. “Exposure to bright light for two to three hours daily helps regulate the eye’s growth, dramatically reducing the risk of myopia, an Australian Research Council study found. Short-sightedness, traditionally a problem among the highly educated, has reached record [...]

Today is the last day of the Shanghai Tae Kwon Do Invitation Tournament. This is an inter-province tournament which is Paul’s second tournament ever since last year. Paul was in sparring competition yesterday. He lost 3 to 4 (his opponent is Red and he was Blue, so points were read from Blue to Red.) He [...]

Paul was very upset yesterday. We woke up real early. Mom, Paul, John and I reached the Minhang Sports Stadium before 8am. Paul was going for Tae Kwon Do Tournament – something he worked hard for the entire summer and had his vacation burnt. He’s on pattern competition. The tournament started at 9am and we [...]

It’s been another busy summer (since when it hasn’t?) My students had increased the number of English classes over the summer holidays, so I was practically teaching everyday until recently. One of them dropped out because she had to report to her new boarding school and so will no longer come for class. Another had [...]

Over the years in China, I have learnt to shop on the internet. Taobao works as an escrow service here and is very popular among the Chinese. You have a Chinese bank account here and you must activate internet banking. Registration with Taobao will require scanned document for verification of identity, in this case, my [...]

Paul loves basketball. He’s been either bouncing the ball in the house (breaking one of my landlord’s vases in the process) or spending his pocket money on the basketball shooting game in the nearby shopping mall’s amusement park (game arcade). I’ve been contemplating for a long while whether to get a basketball hoop for Paul. [...]

Coach Cheng from the Blue Eagles Dojang had informed the parents of the meeting that was held last evening at 7pm a few weeks ago. This was the first parent’s meeting called by the coach and the call to form a Blue Eagle PTA was sent out. There were many parents who came to attend [...]

SALT ended with a pool party at GW’s compound near The Bund. The parents had a meeting while the kids played. Issues like subjects, rental, time-tabling for the academic year 2009-2010 had to be planned before hand, and will be fine-tuned in August. I wasn’t there as Paul was unwell, running a low fever after [...]

The decision to put the children through ABRSM and not the exam from Shanghai Music Consortium has put us through some days of stress – good ones, I supposed, if we look into the future. ABRSM exam demands a test of knowledge of theory, aural, sight reading besides performance. Shanghai Music Consortium focus on performance [...]