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Counting big truck sounds fun! I would do that! Such a wonderful time to be focus on your kid. Rawknee, you are a good daddy!

It's beautiful! Funny that I never liked it when I was in China, cause the song is too popular! But now, hearing the familiar tune , the street view of China just came back. Thanks for digging that out, Larry. Does Liren speak Cantonese?

mmm.... Thomas, please elaborate~~~

Hi Catherine, good question, I am not sure either! We should ask the gentlemen to demonstrate! Need some audio or video facilitation

love the story, Raw Knee!!! Thank you so much for sharing it!!! When I google raw knee, the explanation from urban dictionary n is a little surprising to me: that Raw Knee means sexy men! I also like how you interpreter Southern and Northern. More on that later...

Catherine, no we didn't go to restaurants at all! First night camping, we had hot dog and ramen noodle(方便面). We have a tiny gas stove, boiled some water to make the noodle. Gosh, it was good to drink something hot and salty! 2nd night, we rent a lake front cabin, we switched the ramen noddle to paste+tomato sauce. Oh it's good to cook on a modern stove! 3nd night, we were supposed to leave. But all the food we brought from grocery store couldn't fit into out stomach! How I wished we had that much to eat on the 1st night!!!

Larry, I'm very interested with the Chinese songs you enjoy, can you share some of the names?

Wonderful song, Rawknee! I'm so embarrassed that I didn't know this is your name. I searched the urban dictionary... Did you really give math problems to the kid while driving??? I'm wondering what kind of math problems the kid would kept asking. Do know that Chinese are big on math. But I hate math!

Very creative! Not sure who's taste this one is tailored for????

I like the that lesson! Gold rule happy wife, happy life !!!

Great song, Doug! Thanks for the video, Dan! my 14-yr-old loved this song, played again and again and again when she visit. my 7-yr-old loved to sign along. After awhile, the song stuck in my head, can't shake it off

hi Catherine, welcome back! We miss you! It is very usually to me, to have a full Chinese meal, rice+fish for breakfast!!! Your sister must be very very very happy to see you and went for the extra trouble early in the morning! How to politely tell them that you actually didn't like fish with bone that much, is very challenging!

Thanks tsap seui! What's Rawknee????

love that video! Thanks guys! You are super awesome! Compare to the video I posted on my wechat, 1. My dad gave me a little heart 2. One friend said why did you challenged so many people? 3. Only my challenger gave warm & exciting encouragement, like you all did here! What a difference!!! Here's the response from people I nominated: 1. Didn't have ice 2. Don't dare to do so, and big crying face. 3. The rest didn't say a word yet..... Americans seems really know how to have fun and cheer for others

Sorry guys, it's all in Chinese. I received the challenge from my friend in China this morning. Pounding on it for a day, watched enormous ALS video, and decided to be the fool. Actually the hardest part is deciding who to challenge next. My challenge went to the You May volunteers, I hope our Chinese women living in the US will: - care for others - face challenges - take action Once my 7-yr-old heard the word: ice bucket, she decided it is fun and she had to do it. She challenged my parents and my husband. Now he was challenged twice, 1 from me. Will he take the challenge??

Too bad can't do hitchhiking now. That's one of the magic things I associate with America!

All the Chinese moms are the same , mostly are "Tiger moms" who wanted to stuff their kids with knowledge we believed useful - to get to higher education and get well paid job, so definitely a lot of math, instruments (piano & violin, not so much band instrument cause no every middle school/high school has a band, and there's no football ) We are not bought up in a fun & interactive way, our parents don't play with us, cause their parents didn't play with them. But I still think we can learn, a funner way. My 7-yr-old saw me do the ASL ice bucket challenge, and she did the same. Ask her way, she said: I don't know why, but I just want to do it. "

So you do remember the lesson you ,learned over and over,, What was the lesson ??

I missed the Chinese dancing grannies in the park, in the stadium. Every morning woke up in their music and wave of fans, Every evening watched my daughter playing among their grandchildren So lively, so upbeat, so warm, like a big family. So China, I miss it.

Does anyone still hitchhike today?

Hi Doug, Is this the bench seat in the front? (i'm sorry for the size of the pix) Do you still remember the really stupid stuff you taught them? http://assets.blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/10/1963Impalabenchseat_1500.jpg

I miss you guys too! You are all so warm and it DOES felt like back home again!! I'm still struggling on balancing my time between child care, my little none profit magazine adventure, exercising to take care of myself and having food on the table. Now I have to go grocery shopping. Just decided to plan dinners for a week, so I don't waste time on grocery shopping. Please bare with me if my response is slow. But I'm trying to be here everyday in the workday

ur.... I see the problem of having the husband driving for 10 hrs all by himself, and it's pouring rain....

Great idea to have Chinese and English burned in a CD! So unfair for me to listen to English songs all the time, time for my husband to learn some Chinese tunes!! I was at home for 2 weeks, didn't go out much, didn't meet other people face to face, only talk on phone. I thought I would be fine cause I kept talking to people on phone, but by end of the 2nd weeks,I started to cry. I wasn't sure what's wrong, thought I just missed China, miss my friends, miss going out with them. Then I realized I was very depressed not being able to see people face to face. I think people, especially women need to be connected and be social.

Very romantic to stop and have a picnic! We have been munching on snack bars and skip meals, just trying to get to places. Got to tell my husband to SLooooooow down from time to time, just to enjoy the journey.