Tag: boy
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Day Eighty Nine, April 21, 2011
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,…
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Day Sixty Four, March 27, 2011
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…
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Day Sixty Three, March 26, 2011
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~
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Day Thirty Six, February 27, 2011
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…
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Day Thirty One, February 22, 2011
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…
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Day Twenty Five, February 16, 2011
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…
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Day Twenty Four, February 15, 2011
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 🙂