A busy day

Both of the girls slept in their room on night 2 and both were also wide awake at 6:00 am! We let them go ahead and get up since we needed to be on the road by 8:15 a.m. anyway. Schwen started the kids china art program classes today. It was planned that she would just go to chinese first grade with Jia. She ended up in that class along with calligraphy and choir. The first grade class may actually be way too advanced for her as far as writing the chinese characters since it does not appear that she ever learned how to do this. She did seem familiar with the calligraphy brush and especially liked the choir. She sat patiently and watched Jia in her dance class and also was fascinated with the soccer game. Both girls were wiped out from the day and Schwen fell asleep sitting on the couch. She seems to understand what we are saying and is able to communicate her likes and dislikes to us. She seems to adore Jia. I know we are currently in the honeymoon stage and I'll enjoy the first few days of the homecoming knowing down the road we'll surely have many battles and obstacles that we will encounter.