Homeschool Shanghai

Music theory is a useful tool when it comes to reading and understand musical scores, especially when you play an instrument. Here in Shanghai, they have it in Chinese. I was a bit concern about the language transistion should we had to move to Singapore or somewhere else where music theory is taught in English. [...]

It was the end of the SALT Academic Year Meeting last night. I took the public transport (metro) there since the kids were not with me. I was half an hour early and decided to quickly go to the Xinhua Bookstore at the 4th level of Ganghui Shopping Mall. I bought Paul’s music textbook there [...]

I have been so busy and tired that I had stopped my part-time work for two weeks now, and only managed to do something online on Monday, for a short while. I had to prepare to go for meeting yesterday, so had to juggled with the paperwork and make sure that Paul finished his homework [...]

It was the last class of SALT, on 21st June 2007. SALT will be closed for the summer until 13th September. Paul reminded me to take the camera to SALT as he wanted to take a picture with E Cannell before he leaves for the States. E taught him PE and was one of Paul’s [...]

Yes, yes, I know… I writing way, way after the event’s over, again… It was 9th July, a special day for the host of SALT, the Cannells, as their first-born celebrated his highschool graduation. E Cannell will be going to the States soon for his college education. This day brought us a lot of joy [...]

SALT and SAINTS went to the organic farm in Songjiang last Saturday. It was lots for fun for the kids. Few of them, including Paul and John, saw goats in the little farm and went chasing after them. The poor goats were tied to the ground and could not run far. The person-in-charge of the [...]

Paul’s been learning piano for about 3 years now, at a local arts school (not an art academy, but a school that teaches music, dance, martial arts and much more.) I was wondering when Paul’s piano grading exam would be and had checked with the person-in-charge of the school. I was told that Paul still [...]

I can’t believe it’s been two months since I last wrote in my blog. I’ve been so busy. I’ve been having problem with Paul lately as he was testing his boundaries again. I find that he gets ruder and more vocal. I have to face the fact that my authority in the house is being [...]