We start school in January and go until December. There are many reasons for us to do this but mainly, it’s because it’s what works best with our schedule seeing as we are quite busy in the summer. We are so thankful to be American (from MN and IL) and able to homeschool a bit more freely than our other European and local friends. We go all year with some breaks in-between the crazy and for the summer months, do 3 days full school, 2 days half-day for the weeks. This year, we rang in the new year with a field trip! We went up to Litang and then drove in a nice,large loop around a beautiful mountain range in Sichuan. This post will be a two-fer as it will include photos from the beginning of the new school year AND that amazing tour. We discovered that at about 4,200 meters, Hosanna and I lost it. She just cried and felt miserable; I couldn’t breath (think elephants sitting on your chest and a lion chasing you) and felt generally nauseas. Every time we were getting to a pass, I tracked the elevation gain with fear and trembling. Good to know.
Great to see pictures of the kiddos! and the blue sheep! They supposedly have a ‘bluish tint’ to their coats, but I have never seen it.
They looked totally NOT AT ALL blue…but yeah, I guess some zoologist thought so!
Hiya! long time no see or hear from. Wanna Skype?
So glad to see these pictures. Not good to hear about you and H’s
tough time at 4,200 meters. Ugh.
I am completely astounded at the kids’ ages and how they look now…
still themselves just in bigger bodies. Oh my word! I want to see you
all and get me some gigantic hugs. When oh when?
M
A beautiful land, but I can imagine it’s high up!
Yay! It’s so good to see you all again. I miss you all, and I look forward to whenever we can be together again. I have such great memories of your hospitality and time together. Everyone looks great. Sorry to hear about your altitude sickness.