Take Me Away
Our family loves to travel and see new places and experience different cultures. While speaking english makes that travel fairly easy, I always thought it would be fun to have everyone in the family speak a different language and get an inside track everywhere we went. Stephanie has always been an over achiever (to my great delight!) and this area is no exception. She makes learning languages look easy which is why all the kids (except Christopher) started calling dibs. Michael wants german and Danielle has chosen chinese. Lucky for her, they started teaching it this year at her junior high.
In case you can’t see, this is what she is reading/studying for homework tonight.
I was completely amazed as she read these characters like they were in english and wrote them just as quickly. It reminded me of when I was a little girl and we would beg my dad to sing “You Are My Sunshine” to us in chinese as he had the opportunity to learn that language (and several others) many years ago during the Vietnam War. It is a very happy sounding language and it always made us laugh to hear my dad making those strange noises. It’s fun to see that same talent coming out in my kids. It totally skipped me which is perfectly okay as it gives me the opportunity to admire this amazing talent and bond my kids share with their grandpa. Plus, there’s a pretty good chance they’ll take me along on their travels and that’s really the most important thing!







