It's been a few weeks without our Tuesday nature class. The weather this time of the year is not treating us very well - it rains every day in the afternoon. And as our class in in the afternoon and nobody wants to get soaked wet, the class gets cancelled very often. This Tuesday it also almost got cancelled - it was raining in most parts of the city in the early afternoon, but around 3pm the rain stopped. This week we visited the Fuyang Ecopark for the second time. You can read about our first nature class in that park HERE . Of course almost as soon as we started the class it started raining. We had to find shelter at a covered rest area (just like last time). Fortunately the teacher has prepared an interesting activity for the kids - they were making a natural mosquito repellent. The main ingredient was dried and powdered mugwort (艾草, bylica pospolita, Artemisia vulgaris). The kids got a piece of slowly burning paper which they they had to twist to form a cylin
A blog about multilingual and multicultural family homeschooling their two children in Taiwan, Poland and Japan. (Third "child" grew up, and after starting her own company decided to go to school in NYC.) Blog wielojęzycznej i wielokulturowej rodziny uczącej dwójkę dzieci w domu na Tajwanie, w Polsce i w Japonii. (Trzecie dziecię dorosło i po założeniu firmy w Japonii wyjechało na studia do Nowego Jorku.)