My mother, who was visiting us over the Thanksgiving holiday, said that we would laugh about this year’s holiday in five years. After all, it’s not every year that one orders take out pizza on Thanksgiving. Or one’s daughter gets firsthand experience with the latest pandemic. It started the Saturday before Thanksgiving when my daughter […]
H1N1
H1N1 in Beijing
School administrators in Beijing waiting to take students’ temperatures as they enter school. Precautions against H1N1 are not as obvious in Beijing as they were in Hong Kong, but at Elisa’s school, the administration is being vigilant – and rightfully so. At the orientation the week before school opened, the Principal announced that every person […]