{"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":"
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Pip and I are back at speech classes. Pip aced her class…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
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Met Miranda at Brandt Creeks Pub before supper. It was so relaxing there. I can totally understand pub culture. If I didn’t have to drive I could have stayed there all evening one drink after another…but alas, a wine spritzer is all this light weight can handle.<\/div>\n
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Mist and Tabs and Pip all had playdates in the afternoon.<\/div>\n
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I am getting very busy “building my empire” as I like to call it. Everything I have always wanted to do…I am doing it now. My Pip will start kindergarden next fall, I will graduate with an MA…I am so ready… Getting involved in Greenpeace as this has always been a goal of mine…want to start up an Okanagan chapter–I’ve always known that my naturalist\/adventure-junkie self needs an outlet like Greenpeace–I’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
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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’t know that the Chinese have an official day (since 1923) that they celebrate called “Humiliation Day.” They celebrate it on July 1st–Canada Day–they didn’t want to celebrate a country that treated them so badly \ud83d\ude41\u00a0<\/div>\n
I don’t think too many still celebrate such a day… 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
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Touch me not for I am free. Wild to hold though I seem tame.<\/b><\/div>\n
-my personal mantra that I created as a teenager and still live by.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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