SunFlower - Elsie/Jan 2007

I was very excited to have met Elsie on 5th Jan, 2007 and got her sincere consent to allow auntie bonnie to become one of her best friends. She ordered ice lemon water and waffler with fruit and I had an apple juice.

We have decided below together:

1. to meet each other once a month on every first friday of the monthly at 4:30-6:00pm.
2. everytime we will choose different coffee shops to try out their different afternooon tea-set or cake-set as our fun theme.
3. Elsie wants to know "What does bonnie like?" as her focus to knowing bonnie more.
4. Bonnie wants to know "What does elsie think?" as her focus to knowing elsie more.
5. Elsie will summarize meetings with bonnie on to a power point slide as a journal of record.

We went to Pokka Coffee and then did some shopping at Muji. Elsie bought a Lemon Hojii Tea bags for her mom, a spicy dry cutterfish for her dad and a lip balm with rose flavor for her mom and her own uses.

Elsie asked me what I liked to play when I was a small girl. I told her about my primary school stories. She also told me her view about how she feels about her brother's after school activities and advantages and disadvantage for school children to take Kumon exercise.

I think Elsie has reflected some facts that some parents should take in to consideration if they are sending their children for Kumon now, that the steps of calculation taught in school and Kumon are in different expression. Elsie got the right answer but was considered wrong because the steps of expression was different from what the way taught in school. This kind of confusion begins in P3 and up.

She also expressed that being a n elder sister, she is difficult to act on behalf of her parents to authorize her brother to do homework. That hurts their relationship. Of course, after some listening, I found the reluctance of the brother was still mainly due to the overwhelmed after school activities' extra homework.

I am happy that she likes me and have been very expressive during our conversations. I enjoyed very much being with her and will look forward to upcoming meetings with fun.