Luke wanted to paint. Mona wanted to participate. Luke got annoyed.
Archive for the “Luke Slater” CategoryLuke is a funny little boy. This week he started his Chinese nursery school. He’s all of nineteen months old, but wow, he gets very mad at the teachers and Ling for calling him by his Chinese name, Xun Qi. His comprehension skills are blossoming wildly, so he actually does pick up what they are saying to him. They ask him “where is your nose?” in Chinese, and sometimes he’ll answer, other times he’ll be quite irritated and refuse to answer, or only answer grudgingly. The other strange thing about him is his deep empathy. If anyone pretends to cry or be in pain he will burst into tears. This week in school the theme is shoyi or ‘veterinarian’ (pardon my pinyin, Roger). So every day the teachers (mainland Chinese) act out stories for the students. Yesterday the little baby monkey disobeyed his mom, jumped around the house, and hurt his tail, so he had to go to the vet. Xun Qi bursts into tears. Today the baby piggies distracted the tiger by giving him lots of sweets till he got a toothache. Xun Qi began wailing when the the teacher playing the tiger acted like she was in pain. Clearly no other kids in the class do this (he’s among or is the youngest in the class). Sensitive little guy. He seems happiest when he is hugging the the dogs or cuddling his stuffed snowman. |
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