On the road again…

Megan is currently watching Doremon on Cuenca TV from noon to 1pm. Usually we have the power outage from 11am to 1pm, so she doesn’t get to watch it.  She can only watch it twice during the weekdays because it cuts into her ‘home schooling’ time.

Note the power outages have been reduced from FOUR hours down to TWO hours and not every weekday now.

Shortly, thereafter, Doremon jumped out of the TV and ate some of Mai’s fresh chocolate chip cookies (with Megan’s help, of course).  I bought the mask for Megan for New Year’s celebration.

Ever since we left Vietnam, Megan has been having Mai read her Doremon comic books in Vietnamese to relax Megan when she first lays down to go to sleep in the evening. Mai mentioned just yesterday that she was surprised at how much Vietnamese Megan could read. Because of Mai reading to Megan a story which she already knows in spoken Vietnamese, Megan is quickly picking up reading skills in Vietnamese.

Sometimes, having Mai & Megan speaking Vietnamese together, which I don’t understand, is a bit disconcerting, but I strongly support Megan learning her Mother’s mother tongue. Even if it puts me in a rather unusual situation.

Upstairs in the apartment complex, we have an American man married to a Thai women with a five year old son who speaks only Thai, so I’m not completely alone having a child in the family speaking a language which the father doesn’t understand.