Today's new word
怪异 Guàiyì spooky
This October, Brigid was obsessed with spookiness. As Halloween approached, she started to cover some of her toys in her room with white baby blankets to make them look like ghosts. She slid some of Myles' dinosaurs under her bed so she'd catch a glimpse of shadowy monsters when she was on the floor playing.
For Halloween, she chose not to be a princess (her usual choice) or Iron Man (her earlier choice), but a spoooooooooky witch.
Halloween is over, but she is still taken with things she calls "spooky."
Yesterday afternoon as I was tutoring one of Myles' friends on his English homework, the friend's mom drew pictures with Brigid. At first she was drawing cute pictures, but Brigid insisted she really wanted spooky so she could glue them in a book she is writing (actually just notebook she is gluing things into, but for a five-year-old that counts as writing). I looked up the word in Chinese to help her get her point across. 怪异.
The rest of the time I heard from them as they switched from drawing flowers and puppies to ghosts and haunted houses.
--是不是怪异?
--是的!
This morning I scanned my twitter feed for news and et cetera, and I saw this from a popular Beijing photographer. Moments later a friend in Hong Kong (Lantau Mama) messaged me about it because she had seen it on Facebook! It was taken last night when we were attending a book launch at the Bookworm (and more on that later).
Needless to say, Brigid is delighted to have a 怪异 picture of herself. She has already asked me to print it out and she has glued it into her book.
This October, Brigid was obsessed with spookiness. As Halloween approached, she started to cover some of her toys in her room with white baby blankets to make them look like ghosts. She slid some of Myles' dinosaurs under her bed so she'd catch a glimpse of shadowy monsters when she was on the floor playing.
For Halloween, she chose not to be a princess (her usual choice) or Iron Man (her earlier choice), but a spoooooooooky witch.
Halloween is over, but she is still taken with things she calls "spooky."
Yesterday afternoon as I was tutoring one of Myles' friends on his English homework, the friend's mom drew pictures with Brigid. At first she was drawing cute pictures, but Brigid insisted she really wanted spooky so she could glue them in a book she is writing (actually just notebook she is gluing things into, but for a five-year-old that counts as writing). I looked up the word in Chinese to help her get her point across. 怪异.
The rest of the time I heard from them as they switched from drawing flowers and puppies to ghosts and haunted houses.
--是不是怪异?
--是的!
This morning I scanned my twitter feed for news and et cetera, and I saw this from a popular Beijing photographer. Moments later a friend in Hong Kong (Lantau Mama) messaged me about it because she had seen it on Facebook! It was taken last night when we were attending a book launch at the Bookworm (and more on that later).
Needless to say, Brigid is delighted to have a 怪异 picture of herself. She has already asked me to print it out and she has glued it into her book.
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