off to silk route tour

For the next coming weeks, I will be off to the silk route tour. Hope everything goes well.

It's the Official Restaurant of Hell

Little boy: Do kids go to jail?
Mom: No, kids don't go to jail.
Little boy: What if they kill someone?
Mom: Well, when kids are real bad, sometimes they go to juvenile, which is a sad place where they don't let you do things you want.
Little boy: And they don't feed you!!
Mom: Well, no, the kids there get fed. But maybe the food isn't very good.
Little boy, to himself: They feed you McDonald's. Because McDonald's is bad for you.

eat faster somebody's brain

Faster, eat faster.
Hurry up.
No question. No play. Eat faster.
...
Sharing a table with me at the breakfast restaurant were a father and a son. The son was about 3-4 years old. Put in front of them were plates of dumplings, pickles and bowls of soya bean jelly, which is called in Chinese 'doufu nao'. Doufu is bean and nao means brain.
son:Dad, why is this called doufu nao?
father:No question. Finish it quickly.
son continues:whose brain is this?
father:No, no, not human brain. It's beans'.
son: why brain?
father:Faster you go.
...
I was guessing then: it must be named after its shape. Even the father's brain. He's been pushing the boy and repeating almost every five seconds, while the boy seemed so used to it. He kept his pace and raised questions, too. As I see it acutally the boy was not eating specially slow. And when I was having my 'brain', so annoying it was as if he was ordering me that. Why can't give your boy and other people at the same table some easy time for a normal breakfast? Why does he have to rush maybe because of your own reasons?
It's one of your earliest life lessons, son. When you grow up, you will be one of : 20 or more passengers run and push each other to get on the bus when it pulls into the station; even it's red light people cross the streets as if they have something really urgent to do...
It's September. Finally I realize this when the bus scanner could read my month card for I forget to input money for this month. It's September 1st, a beginning of a new month. How time flies. Or we ought to eat our time and brain FASTER.

letter 2, new but sad

L.X.P. has a mental disadvantage. She is almost 5 years, but she
functioned like a girl from 1,6 til 2 years. She starts talking right 
now.
She is fond of her sister and her parents. But she lives most of the 
time in
her own world. 
This was in China actually also. But then we hoped that it was only
temporary.
We have been in Hospitals with her the first 1,5 year she was with us.
According the docters is she Healthy, but is she Autistic.

But, we are very happy with her. She is our sunshine. Always 
happy.
We only wanted to know how it could happen that the Lanxi Welfare 
institute
could say that it was a normal healthy kid, while every one could she 
that
she wasn.t healthy.

If they want to answer us that we are happy. But if you are to 
busy it
is okay. We don't blame any one. 
We were very happy with you in Hangzhou. And we have good memories of 
you.

This is the reply from the family after I inquired about the reason L.X.Ping stays at a special school.
'She is still our sunshine.' sounds sweet but to me, a killing sweet.