{"id":362,"date":"2011-03-02T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2013-11-12T13:44:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:44:40","slug":"building-an-empire-one-step-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/building-an-empire-one-step-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Building an Empire One Step at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-F1V1gZNrqyE\/TW3B_vawJEI\/AAAAAAAAESc\/JsLLWee1wXQ\/s1600\/IMG_8978.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-F1V1gZNrqyE\/TW3B_vawJEI\/AAAAAAAAESc\/JsLLWee1wXQ\/s640\/IMG_8978.JPG\" width=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Pip and I are back at speech classes. Pip aced her class&#8230;she pronounces everything so well the teachers are at a loss at what we should work on. Pip talking so much at Preschool all year and singing Karaoke at home has improved her speech so very impressively.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Met Miranda at Brandt Creeks Pub before supper. It was so relaxing there. I can totally understand pub culture. If I didn&#8217;t have to drive I could have stayed there all evening one drink after another&#8230;but alas, a wine spritzer is all this light weight can handle.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Mist and Tabs and Pip all had playdates in the afternoon.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">I am getting very busy &#8220;building my empire&#8221; as I like to call it. Everything I have always wanted to do&#8230;I am doing it now. My Pip will start kindergarden next fall, I will graduate with an MA&#8230;I am so ready&#8230; Getting involved in Greenpeace as this has always been a goal of mine&#8230;want to start up an Okanagan chapter&#8211;I&#8217;ve always known that my naturalist\/adventure-junkie self needs an outlet like Greenpeace&#8211;I&#8217;d like to work for them within their communications dept. Start Latin dance on Friday. I will be finished my thesis by mid march and then I will find a job teaching or in communications or perhaps both. Painting workshop in France to follow.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Tabs is writing a report on the Chinese in Canada during the gold rush and railway building. It is very heart breaking to read her report. I knew about all of the racism, but I didn&#8217;t know that the Chinese have an official day (since 1923) that they celebrate called &#8220;Humiliation Day.&#8221; They celebrate it on July 1st&#8211;Canada Day&#8211;they didn&#8217;t want to celebrate a country that treated them so badly \ud83d\ude41\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">I don&#8217;t think too many still celebrate such a day&#8230; judging from the number of Happy Chinese Canadians in BC (everyone we met in Hong Kong has a relative living in Vancouver), I think things have improved drastically.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b>Touch me not for I am free. Wild to hold though I seem tame.<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><i>-my personal mantra that I created as a teenager and still live by.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pip and I are back at speech classes. Pip aced her class&#8230;she pronounces everything so well the teachers are at a loss at what we should work on. 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