We rode by camel only part of the way, and then we boarded a train, being it is a most common means of travel for China.
DD got a beautiful red Kimono and some Chinese checkers or “Tiaoqi” for her Birthday. She was thrilled! She so enjoys jumping into character.
She made a wonderful Chinese crab and corn soup and served it up with rice crackers and tea. I enjoy using my Wok to cook so we had stir-fry veggies and shrimp, chop suey with cashews, sesame chicken, egg rolls, lots of rice and of course we practiced using our chop sticks.
We found a neat book at the library I think it was Look What Came From China by Miles Harvey (I’ll have to check to make sure) It had some really neat simple projects in it. Every time I turned around DD was flipping through it. She made wall scrolls and a big butterfly kite in her free time. We also enjoyed the book, ”Grandfather Tang’s Story” Ann Tompert. We made our own Tangrams out of card stock. DD and R acted out the 2 foxes, making tangram animals as they followed along. I think R especially enjoyed the picture books this past few weeks. We had fun evenings cuddled up with them.
When we made our Chinese flags we talked about The meaning of the stars: The largest of them representing Communism. DD and I watched the movie, ”China Cry” I hadn’t watched it in a long time. It really brought us both to a better understanding as to what was really going on when Communism came into play, the reality of persecution that took place, and the incredible testimony of being unashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We also talked about the flag’s 4 smaller stars representing the 4 classes of people. We just happened to watch the movie High School Musical ( I was actually impressed ) D and R were able to see how even in our own culture there is this division of people; The classes of China, the cast system in India, and the clicks and prejudices right here in America.
Not even our Lord Jesus was above taking off His outer garment to wash the feet of the disciples to show us how to truly love one another.
