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I had an interesting morning yesterday. Some friends we worked with in China are here with us (they just came back from China a month ago). Right after breakfast, I had a call from the local high school saying that they had two Chinese boys registered for school and they don't speak any English so there was no way to communicate to them. They asked us to come and talk to them and translate. Dennis and I went over and spent a couple of hours talking to the 16 and 17-year-old brothers who, of course, must have been extremely overwhelmed. I may be back there today as I don't see any point in those boys being there in their classes because they can't understand anything. Perhaps I can parlay this into a job?

Molly, we have parent-teacher meetings Thursday so we'll talk then about whether to move Shelley up. My wife talked to the teacher yesterday and we think we need to give them a few more days. Teacher says she has an accelerated reading and math program, but hasn't had time to get it going yet. Next problem: my wife was up since 2:30 worrying about our wonderful 10-year-old kid who seems to be getting crushed by the public school system.

What problems is your 10=year-old having? Is it peer behavior? I would think that after being in the Singapore culture it would be hard to deal with the level of misbehavior and rowdiness that many Americain schools tolerate.

But I may be being too nosy, and if you don't want to comment further, I will just keep you in my prayers.