Although Keely was not accepted into HKIS this year along with her siblings (long story, but our most outgoing and outwardly expressive child chose not to talk - not one word - in her initial "interviews" at HKIS. Now, as you can imagine, some 3-year-olds are a bit shy when being interviewed by adults they don't know. Hmmmm...imagine that...I've moved on, can you tell?), she is attending the same preschool that she attended at the end of last school year. Thankfully, we love the preschool she is at and she is enrolled in the bilingual stream so that a good part of her time in school is spent learning Mandarin. Sometimes I don't know if she is saying words she has learned in Mandarin or if she is making up words (usually to a tune of her own creation) so I often have to wait for the other kids to get home to ask if what she is saying is jibberish or actual words.
Despite this daughter of ours loving to sing and dance and TALK, she seems to shy away when I get the camera out. She requires permission to be given by her in order to take a picture or video tape her and it doesn't happen nearly as often as her picture-taking-hobbyist-mother would like! However, this is one of those moments that she was actually willing to talk while I was video taping and she is telling us about some of the Mandarin she has learned. So much fun to hear from her. Thought I'd share.
