Kelly is a dreaming man. He has big plans for his farm and a lot of work has to be done. He wants to build a sauna in the back acreage of his farm and create a locally legendary gooseberry farm on the land that is now just weeds and dirt. He wants many goats and chickens in a pasture northeast of his home so that they can begin eating and de-weeding the area. And that is just his backyard. His front yard needed a lot of landscaping work and gravel needed to be moved.  Continue reading →

(感谢立委分享孩子学琴的经验。跟贴分享我们从孩子的课外活动中学到的经验。)

“推”还是“放”？

– 我们从威廉的课外活动中学到了什么？ 

       2010年九月，威廉刚上Kindergarten。因为加州的K班只有半天，所以我每周在校区工作的那三天下午他就被送到一家华人开的课后辅导班。之前上了三年的幼儿园宗旨是“玩儿就是学习”，我们虽然知道他从两岁起就对数学非常感兴趣，但从未刻意培养过。这个课后辅导班刚巧提供珠心算课，每周一次，包括在学费里。威廉那叫一个兴奋! Continue reading →

2012年夏天，上海

作者：爱美丽   翻译：  红花

  这次暑期夏令营和我预想的不同。我预想的是，与专业的电影工作者一起工作; 做翻译工作相对来说应该不难。我还预想，我会有大量的空闲时间自我调节。比如读书，做功课，和朋友们聊天，逛街，出去玩儿。总之，我期待的这个暑假应该没有任何压力，最终拍摄出漂亮的纪录片，令所有人都快乐又自豪。 Continue reading →

Hello,

My name is Tony Pan, a current sophomore at Lynbrook High School and founder/teacher of Verbatim Writing (VW). VW is dedicated to improving the English skills of students grades 7-9 through exercises in writing, reading, grammar, and vocabulary. This will be a private one-on-one course done in person; however, Skype is available if traveling is difficult. Below is a sample of some topics we will be covering in class. Continue reading →

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