Sam's Last Day of Second Grade

This is Sam's last day of second grade. While he was sad to leave his friends, he was also really happy to know that school was ending because he had visions of Wii marathons.

These are some of the kids in Sam's class. You may notice that most of them aren't wearing their uniform but I think that's because it was the last day of school. They wore their uniforms almost without fail. I wasn't a really big fan of his uniform when he first started school but now I love it. Mornings are very easy when you don't have to decide what to wear every day.

Mrs. Wang was his teacher for first and second grade. Every morning the kids greet her in English with a thick Chinese accent, "Good morning, Mrs. Wang."

One morning I heard Sam say it to her, too. And his accent was just as thick as the other kids in the class.

I love that Sam is just about as tall as Mrs. Wang.

We don't know this man's real name but we call him, "Makai Guy." That's because every morning when we would drop Sam off at school and every afternoon when we took him home he would bellow out Sam's Chinese name, "Makai!" It made our day, every day. Sometimes he would call him "Mr. Shui ge" which means "Mr. Handsome." He was always cheerful (except for a few months when we had bad guanxi because of a little parking argument). It's just a little thing he did, but it's really a big part of our China experience.