We have adopted a tradition in our family of going out for ice cream on the night before the first day of school. Being without a car on Sunday night, we chose to hail cabs to go to Coldstone Creamery at Xindu Guang Chang. You can see us above climbing out of a taxi, ordering hand-slammed cups of ice cream, and enjoying it on the sidewalk seating.
The Coldstone ice cream was a little weak in comparison to the Italian gelato that we have been enjoying for the last three weeks, but nonetheless, still very satisfying on a (still) hot summer night in Suzhou.
The kids return to Dulwich College tomorrow where Juliana, Joseph, Marco, and Maria will be starting 5th, 3rd, 1st grade, and kindergarten respectively. In the British system used by Dulwich they are in years 6, 4, 2, and 1.
Also, interesting to note, every child upon arrival at Dulwich will have their fever taken by an IR scanning device to determine if they are possibly carrying the H1N1 virus after their homeleave overseas. The initial plan was to have every child stay home for a week to ensure that they were flu-free before returning to school. However, when that policy was emailed to the mothers, a violent protest broke out and caused the school administration to issue an updated policy. Technology will allow the children to return to school as scheduled on Aug-24th and not a single manicure, pedicure, or Dragonfly jet-lag massage will need to be rescheduled !
The Coldstone ice cream was a little weak in comparison to the Italian gelato that we have been enjoying for the last three weeks, but nonetheless, still very satisfying on a (still) hot summer night in Suzhou.
The kids return to Dulwich College tomorrow where Juliana, Joseph, Marco, and Maria will be starting 5th, 3rd, 1st grade, and kindergarten respectively. In the British system used by Dulwich they are in years 6, 4, 2, and 1.
Also, interesting to note, every child upon arrival at Dulwich will have their fever taken by an IR scanning device to determine if they are possibly carrying the H1N1 virus after their homeleave overseas. The initial plan was to have every child stay home for a week to ensure that they were flu-free before returning to school. However, when that policy was emailed to the mothers, a violent protest broke out and caused the school administration to issue an updated policy. Technology will allow the children to return to school as scheduled on Aug-24th and not a single manicure, pedicure, or Dragonfly jet-lag massage will need to be rescheduled !
