{"id":50,"date":"2003-09-23T01:10:41","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T01:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2003-09-23T01:10:41","modified_gmt":"2003-09-23T01:10:41","slug":"lessons_with_emiko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Lessons with Emiko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching Emiko ( I realised today that I have been spelling her name wrong all these while. It&#8217;s Emiko and not Amiko) is such a joy especially when her two younger sisters hang around in the room as well. Her second sister Yukiko is 5 years old and the youngest one Hanako is about 20 months old. All three of them are sssooo adorable in their own ways. The little one is such a dear. She&#8217;s so friendly and allows me to carry her. Sometimes she asks to be carried and I readily obliged &#8216;cos she&#8217;s so chubby and cute.<br \/>\nYukiko was really sweet. She made this little thing ( i don&#8217;t really know what it is) out of paper and said it was for me. I wished I had a digital camera right now! Then I would be able to take a shot of it and put in on my blog. Better still, take a picture of these three lovely girls.<br \/>\nI also found out that Emiko&#8217;s really good in art &#038; craft. She draws a lot and makes lots of craftwork in school. I got her to talk about her drawings, and the things she made. She makes all these really interesting stuff at school. E.g. a candle, paper mache balloon holder, mask, woven bag etc. Her drawings are really good as well. She&#8217;s definitely one very talented budding artist!<br \/>\nCompared to the first lesson we had, we&#8217;re having a lot more fun with each other. I guess we&#8217;re more familiar with each other, and I&#8217;m also learning what works and does not works with her. Today, I showed her photos of my dogs in Singapore, and she said she likes Rex (my collie) better. Usually we read books, and we talk about the books and other things I can think of. Most of the time, one subject just leads on to another. It&#8217;s fun having a conversation with her.<br \/>\nAt the end of today&#8217;s lesson, I met her father who just came home from work. Today&#8217;s lesson ended at 6:30pm instead of 5:30pm &#8216;cos Emiko&#8217;s mum had something to attend to and requested the lesson to be postponed by an hour. Anyway, I met her father for the first time and he thanked me for teaching Emiko. He also added that Emiko tells him she enjoys her lessons with me!<br \/>\nSo that was something that made me happy for the day. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching Emiko ( I realised today that I have been spelling her name wrong all these while. It&#8217;s Emiko and not Amiko) is such a joy especially when her two younger sisters hang around in the room as well. Her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=50\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}