Lisa's notebook

To my surprise, I got 2 Christmas presents on Sunday.

One was from one of my student's mom, she told me that she & her kid might not be able to come next week, so, she gave it to me this week.

The other was from the school principle, she told me not to tell any one.....seems not all of the teachers got presents from her.

so, Christmas shopping is inevitable this week, I need to buy a Christmas present for the school principle.

As to my students, I already bought some coloring books in Taiwan and asked my sisters to send them to me 2 months ago.

 

 

 

Just got back from my trip to Caribbean.

Need a little time to get use to the weather here.

So coooooold in PA....

 

Last week, I gave lesson to those 3-5 years old kids.

I have a part time job as a Chinese Teacher on Sundays.

I've been teaching them for 3 months.

 

Anyway, that lesson I gave this weekend was terrible...

I taught them how to say "一隻" & "火雞".

The kids can say it perfectly.

But when it comes to put those 4 words together...

It was a disaster....

 

That's my fault....I sometimes forgot most of them are only 3 years old....

 

 

I got two sweet suprises....a bouquet of roses and an 80GB iPod on 6/28.   Because our wedding anniversary was the coming day.  My dearest husband secretly (without my knowing) prepared the gifts for me and he also had iPod carved few sweet words.

 

So, I've been learning how to use iPod recently.  My iPod is great, it has 80GB capacity and can be uploaded up to 20,000 songs.  Of couse, uploading photoes, movies, podcasts, audiobooks, game...are also parts of its feature.  It's a great gift and I love it.

 

 Besides our wedding anniversay on 6/29, it's also a day that iPhone first appeared on the market. There were lots of iPhone TV ads before it hit the market.  It looked very cool.  So, we went to Apple store to experience iPhone.  It's as good as TV ad said it would be.  The disadvantages I could find were slow internet connection and low capacity.  It only offers 4GB and  8BG, which I think is far too few for my standard.

 

We will get the iphone as soon as it can reach the capacity 80GB, same as my iPod.

 

P.S. "Live free or Die hard" is a great movie, I highly recommend people who are interested in action movie to see the movie.

We were surprised to find Graycie was limping when she walked into the kitchen on Saturday morning.  "It must be the long nails that we were afraid to cut caused the limping" we thought.  Since it was Saturday, chances were no cat clinic were open.  We took our chance and  called the near-by cat clinic, but got no answer.  Though Graycie got better after one or two hours, we still decided that it's time to see a cat doctor and took care of its long nails, which bothered us quite some time.

 

The clinic is specialized for cats and we made an appointment in Monday morning and took Graycie to the cat clinic at 5:45pm in the afternoon.  The cat doctor examed Graycie thoroughly and found Graycie was in good shape, though a little bit over-weight.  After health examination, the doctor trim Graycie's nails fast and precise, which surprised us.  Because we thought trimming those two specific long nails might caused her pain, obviously, we were wrong...

 

It cost us $53.00 to make sure Graycie was fine, which we thought was worth it.

It's a day full of surprises.  My mother-in-law called early in the morning and wished me "Happy Birthday", which embarressed me a lot. Because I should be the one who called her, not she called me....

 

Walking into our kitchen and I found a bouquet of roses and a birthday card waiting for me.  I was surprised and happy.  Though, the weather was not good, it rained on and off all day, still, we went to New York as planed.  We bought tickets to Yankees Stadium days ago to watching Wang, Chieng-Ming playing baseball.

 

We arrived Yankees Stadium 2 hours ago before the game, watched Yankees players praticing.  Suddenly, Wang came out and practiced with his teammate for about 20 mintues. This was the first time we stood so close to Wang in person. He was about  30 feet away from us.  Fish didn't waste any time.  He took out our camera and took some pictures of him.

 

Wang was supposed to be today's pitcher for Yankees. Due to the uncertainty of the weather, Yankees changed its pitcher to someone else two hours before the game.  It's a shock to Wang's fan including us....we came all the way here to watch Wang play and they just changed the pitcher....Well, at least we saw Wang in close range...

 

In the middle of the 6th inning, the electronic board in Yankees Stadium show "HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA HUNG", that's another bithday present from my dearest husband.  It is a day full of surprises....

Whenever I have a sore throat, I know it's an augury to have a cold.  It's no exception this time. 

 

The symptons I am suffering now including a sore and dry throat, a running nose, ears clogged, nasal congestion and body aches.  I don't like to take medicion, so, I surfed on the web, tried to find remendies for my symptons.  Some said that self-made honey and lemon water will help, which I did drink a lot yesterday.  Other said that hot chicken soup will relief what you are suffering from a cold, which I did cook and drink lots of it.  I can not say that they didn't work...acturally, those remendies did work in some way.  They just didn't powerful enough to get rid of the cold....

 

It seems that staying in bed and rest is the best thing to do.  Tomorrow is my birthday, hope my birthday won't be ruined by the cold....

We've planed to go to Niagara Falls since last month.  Fish booked two different hotels, one in US and the other in Canada, in the early of Aug.  The trip is around the corner < this Saturday to be exact >.  And the weather forecast said that the weather around the Niagara Falls will not be good, 50% chance of raining, which means the firework might be cancelled due to the rain. 

 

What a great disappointment!  The reason we decided to visit Niagara Falls in the late of Aug. was because of the firework.  They won't have the firework show after Sep..  Since the hotel in the US can not be cancelled, so, we decided to stick on our plan, but it won't be a 3-day-trip as planed.  We will head for the Niagara Falls very early on Saturday morning and come back home on Sunday night. 

 

Still can't wait for the trip.

I was bored and brousing TV programs this morning as many housewifes do and came across a program called martha stewart show.  It tells you how to cook and some other stuff.  It also has a website that you can find on my list culumn at the left hand side.  Kind of interesting...

 

 

 

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