Duet homeschooling in Taiwan & America

2013/09/15

Our first day ~ Pie Elementary School

We started our homeschool on the 2nd of September. We call our school " Pie Elementary School"
我們開始在家自學，九月第二天我們開始上課!!

Beach Day (6th September 2013)

We went to the Baishawan 白沙灣‧It was a wonderful day , the weather was good and we had so much fun, especially Pieter.
我們去了一趟白沙灣。小孩們玩得很開心。Pieter特別開心，他說他已經好幾年沒去海邊玩了。

2013/08/29

A trip through the rain in a Key Lime Pie

Pieter has taken a month of driving classes to get a Taiwanese driving license. Today we drove our "Key Lime Pie" Van to Pieter's school through the heavy rain. Why did we go to his school? We wanted to get his diploma. But the teacher was not there, and we couldn't get it until we got his signature. So then we went to Costco to get some stuff.

Well , it was good for our first trip in the "Key Lime Pie".

Pieter終於拿到台灣駕照. 我們決定今天全家到Pieter學校辦畢業手續。冒著颱風天提了論文跟四盒親手做的謝禮到學校。但是老師沒來，所以手續沒辦成。只能下次再來，希望下次就可以畢業了。接著我們又到家附近的Costco 買了點東西，有車真是方便，我們再也不用坐公車去Costco買東西了。今天真是很有趣。(我們的綠色馬仕達七人座有個名字"Green Pie"

Pieter's Taiwan driver's license

Pieter made Tofu Brownies for his teachers

The kids love to sit in the car and listen to "Monkey" a Chinese story

小孩喜歡在車上聽西遊記

Pieter drove his own car in Taiwan (2013)

I hope I can get my license soon!!

2013/08/18

Princess Amira save gorilla Darius

Today I had a meeting at church and I could not go home early with Pieter and the kids.

When I got home, Pieter told me that they had just had an adventure. In my mind, I thought “ok!?”. Then Pieter continued his story.

He said “Darius locked himself in the kitchen for 20 minutes.” I immediately rushed to check on him, he was watching a church movie, and his face was covered with marks of tears. I looked at him, he was smiling, then I gave him a kiss and a hug. Because I was paying so much attention on Darius , I did not notice Amira next to me describing what had happened. She was talking and I didn’t even notice her until she said “ I Climbed out the window into the kitchen to open the door for Darius”

“What did you just say?” I asked Amira. She repeated herself.

Oh my! My princess Amira saved the Gorilla!! (BTW, we have titles for all our kids; Amira (Princess), Corban (Monkey), Darius (Gorilla), Benicia (Mermaid). Each has these names according to their personalities and demeanor.

Pieter told me, he had went into the kitchen to switch the oven on and went to check a recipe for the correct temperature, when Darius shut the door and locked it. It is one of the push locks. Darius doesn’t know how to turn knobs yet, so he couldn’t open the door from the inside. Because the landlord never gave us a key for the door, Pieter could not open it. Amira gave the suggestion to pray. After praying they spent many minutes trying to pick the lock and using credit cards to open up the door but the door would not open. Pieter looked out a side window adjacent to the kitchen window and saw that the kitchen window was open and could be gotten into if the window could be reached, the only problem was that the office window that Pieter was looking out of had bars on it. But opposite our office window was the neighbors balcony. It had bars as well, but they were more gapped. So they headed to the neighbors and asked if they could use their balcony. Because the gap in the bars were so small only Amira could make it through. Pieter helped her through the gap hanging our 6 stories and guided her through the kitchen window where Darius sat crying.

Well Amira was so brave. She just helped , with no fear.

How wonderful she is. Amira knows when we have trouble, we should always think about God and pray. I love my daughter. She is so wonderful.

2013/08/10

第一次家庭旅遊家庭旅遊 our first time family vacation

今年父親節很不一樣，我們花了兩天時間去了一趟花蓮。這也是我們家庭第一次出遊。我們去了遠雄悅來飯店跟遠雄海洋公園。這兩天我們很開心玩遊樂設施跟吃飯。往返就是利用接駁車。省去交通上很多不便利。也是因為家庭人口眾多，沒有自家車可以使用情況下，我們選擇了定點遊玩。不過沿路在火車上看到宜蘭、花蓮的美景，真是使我們想留在東岸。這次經驗讓我們有了美好回憶。

2013/08/03

Amira piano practice Amira鋼琴練習

Chef Pie 我們小烘培店

Pieter 已經做了一些時日的聖餐聚會麵包。慢慢有人知道每個星期日他會親自手做麵包，讓大家可以有新鮮麵包可以使用。Pieter因為常常做，所以麵包穩定也夠好。也許還做得不錯，出現一兩名成員訂購麵包。因此開啟我們的Chef's Pie

Since Pieter decided to make bread for sacrament for church, some members have been interested in our breads. So they have been buying from us. Because we use mostly organic ingredients, people like our breads.
We call our small business "Chef Pie"