My little Chinese Scholar

I must say that I’m very, very proud of Aiden. I’m not sure… to other parents who are chinese educated, it might not be much or maybe it is expected of kids to know. But to me, who is a (I would say) a half banana since I speak but cannot read and write chinese…. I’m blown away! I think he is bloody awesome.. Watch this!
 

 

Honestly… I really don’t know what exactly he is saying but I do know that it is about filial piety and stuff like that… I feel so-so terrible that I don’t understand the whole thing word for word but I’m just so proud of him. When we decided to send Aiden to a Chinese school… I was worried about a million things!! and most of all I was afraid that he couldn’t catch up as this is only his first year in a chinese school environment while other kids have already been going since last year already. I kept reminding myself and Greg that we will not force it on him and pressure him  too much.If he really can’t cope we’ll change him right back to a main stream school. And to top it all off neither Greg or I read and write Chinese. We are what they call ‘Cinak Murtad’ or OCBC (orang Cina bukan Cina) … So for a little ‘product’ produced by 2 OCBC/Cinak Murtad or 1 and a half banana… he is doing very well. His teacher says that he has the best writing in his class and often get ‘stars’ for them, and I know that he reads quite a bit of Chinese as he points them out to me when he sees something that he knows. And.. there is the splatter of Mandarin here and there when he speaks now.  

Sigh! Looks like we can rest a little easier now… We have a little Chinese scholar in the house!! I know who’ll be reading the train maps/guides/ menus for me when we visit so e Chinese country in the future!

You know… after he recited it to me the first time, I was so taken aback, my mouth hung opened for a good few seconds like a dead fish! I was flabbergasted! Though I couldn’t understand a word he said. Same with Daddy (the reaction even better!!) If I couldn’t understand, no way in hell Daddy would.. LOL!!

But Aiden, when you read this in years to come, I want you to know that Mommy is VERY IMPRESSED!! Like what Daddy always say.. You’re a genius!