Where in the World are the Richardsons?: Newspaper Models

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Newspaper Models

We cancelled our subscription to the english language paper, Shanghai Daily, when we thought we were moving back to the U.S., so it took about half a day and a barrage of phone calls for Annie to realize that a picture of she and girls taken last fall was part of a 1/3 page article on Wednesday.

They volunteered to be models in a fashion show for charity last fall and the spring version of the fair is coming up soon ... thus the article in the "Life" section of the paper.

Let's just say Juliet REALLY enjoyed showing off the newspaper to her friends at school today, and Mr. Chen wanted a copy to show his friends that his boss made the newspaper. Here's the link to the online version of the picture and article:

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=396892&type=Feature

3 comments:

Minimar7 said...: What a beautiful picture! Good times....; April 10, 2009 at 2:13 AM
Jen Mall said...: Love it! Mason wants to know..."Which one is Lillie?" UH, the little Chinese looking one and oh, yeah the one we haven't met yet!" DUH!!!!; April 10, 2009 at 4:20 AM
Anonymous said...: It wouldn't let me view the article since I don't have a username and password. Too bad!; April 16, 2009 at 9:11 PM

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And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter... My hope is your story will be about changing...about learning to love a child...about learning to love others more than we love ourselves... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?... And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed.

-Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts

Juliet's Quotes (Seeing China through the eyes of a 5 Year Old)

“You have to sit up front and you CANNOT talk to me.” – Instructing Annie the other day when she had to ride the school bus with Juliet because she had a meeting at the school.
"Huh, yea, we have rice every day." - responding to Annie's foolish question, "Did you have rice with your hotdog today?"
"Well, you didn't tell her you were my mom, so I think she thought you were the cleaner ... you know ... of our house." - when talking with Annie after she had met one of Juliet's new friends at school.
"It's hotter than Hell here, Gigi!" - when explaining the extreme heat and humidity of Shanghai to her grandmother (we don't know where she hears these things...)
"We just need to end all this nonsense and stop going out at night." - referring to our latest shopping excursion (see "Searching for a Princess Bike")
"What's a bidet?" - questioning the other toilet-looking contraption in the bathroom
"Ahhh that feels good" - said in a deep rumbling voice as she was referring to our massage chair the landlord left for us.
"Man, it's like these people have never seen a girl before" - referring to the hundreds of people gawking at her during an IKEA outing.
"This guy drives really slow" - referring to our driver, Mr. Chen, after 3 minutes in the car with him on day one.

By the Numbers

3 - number of stays in a Chinese children's hospital
2 - Number of Typhoons we've weathered
1 - Number of lightning strikes in our front yard
41 - Number of stoplights between our house and Scott's office
10 - Number of thermostats in our house - one for about every 380 square feet
3 - Number of English words our driver speaks (Hello, OK, Bye-Bye)
8 - Gallons of sweat secreted by the three of us during the first five minutes of arriving in steamy Shanghai
96 - Number of keys we have to our home