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Day Eighty Nine, April 21, 2011

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date April 21, 2011
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There is a special bond between a child and his grandparent that is most often glued by a strong tenderness, a powerful love and a kind of friendship that is only possible between these alternate generations. It is as though they are closer to each other being at each end of the circle of life, each yearning and longing to be with the other.

In China this bond is celebrated in almost every family, where the grandparents volunteer to become a very strong presence, care givers and friends to their grandchildren.

photo taken today: children with grandfather~ Tongli, China

Tags 365, alley, back view, black and white, boy, care, child, children, china, chinese, cobble stone, generations, grandfather, love, mimo khair, photography, tenderness, tong li, tongli, walking, water town

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Day Sixty Four, March 27, 2011

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Post date March 27, 2011
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following in our parent's footsteps — When I grow up I want to do what my father does

This 365 project has been taking me to the Streets of Shanghai exploring more in the last 64 days than in all of the 4 + years we have spent here in China.

I love the explorations, what I am learning and the people I am meeting. It is a new adventure every day, and I am finding out the sweet and innocent qualities that Chinese people possess and that were totally hidden from me in the 16th floor high rise where we live.

It so much more this than the camera and the developing of photography skills. It is the richness of meeting a strange culture, human to human, eyes meeting eyes, and capturing heartwarming moments, like this boy who was so proud of pretending to be a bike salesman like his father.

Tags 365, bike, blue, boy, child, china, culture, mimo khair, photography, sales man, shanghai, street, yellow

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Day Sixty Three, March 26, 2011

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date March 26, 2011
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On a lovely spring day in Shanghai,China, a little boy decided to go rollerblading.

He put on his gear, finished it off with a shiny red helmet and set off to enjoy the afternoon sun.

The boy had a coin. He had secret plans to buy himself some vanilla ice cream!

~The end~

Tags 365, boy, china, coin, helmet, lost, mimo khair, photography, red, roller blades, shanghai, street

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Day Thirty Six, February 27, 2011

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date February 27, 2011
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cigarette or lollypop — between the ages of lollypops and cigarettes

Today I was having lunch in a Shanghai neighborhood where many expatriates reside. I was stunned to see at what a young age children are starting to smoke cigarettes these days, or was it always like this? These skaters looked so young, and so “cool” with the whole attitude of “look at me I am totally grown up now”.. and yet I felt that a lollypop would me much more fitting at their tender young age.

Tags 365, boy, boys, children, cigarettes, expat, expatriate, health, mimo khair, parenting, photography, project 365, shanghai, skate board, smoke, smoking, young

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Day Thirty One, February 22, 2011

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date February 22, 2011
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Today Lea and I were buying flowers for her (she still believes if she has flowers in her room all the time, a fairy is bound to come sleep in one of them), when we met this little Chinese boy. Ever since we moved to China five years ago I have enjoyed watching the interactions and magic that goes on between foreign and Chinese children. It is almost like you can see the integration take place through the looks, gestures, words, sounds, playfulness…

Maybe the answer to many of the world problems lies in a better integration of cultures, to the forming of real world citizens that care more for the welfare of the planet as a whole than the interests of their own nations. Maybe…

Tags 365, better future, boy, chid, children, china, chinese, future, german, girl, integration, lebanese, mimo khair, photography, project 365, shanghai, united, world, world citizen, world citizens

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Day Twenty Five, February 16, 2011

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Post date February 16, 2011
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art in sugar — lantern festival candy art

It is the time for the lantern festival (Yuan Xiao) that falls 15 days after the Chinese New Year. In preparation, Chinese people hold different festivities around the place from dances, theaters, lantern watching, lantern flying, the eating of special rice dumplings that look like moons (tangyuan), and different sugar candies. The one above is spun sugar in the shape of a butterfly that I saw a boy eagerly waiting to buy today.

Tags boy, butterfly, candy, china, chinese new year, eating, festivities, lantern festival, mimo khair, photography, shanghai, sugrar, tangyuan, yuan xiao

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Day Twenty Four, February 15, 2011

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date February 15, 2011
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Today was trampoline class day, which is about an hour of giggles, shrieks and the defying of the law of gravity! And naturally it was heaven for my Canon 🙂

Tags 365, boy, children, china, delight, girls, happy, laughing, mega fitness, mimo khair, photography, project 365, shanghai, smile, trampoline