July 2013 Europe

July 18th, Europe 

After I arrived, George's pick me up, it is very sweet of him, everything smooth, full of love. 

First, we went to his uncle's place to book lobster, very nice house, fully decorated, lots of stuff inside house, a big yard, see 2 lovely turtle. Cooking last for a while, we had lunch after, uncle is very nice to me, he opened, red wine, white wine, pear liquor. Joking around, very friendly . Believe or not, George's said this is the first time they got invited and ate inside house. I found out a lots of first time after in this family. 

Went back to home, kind of late, have to meet jean Luke at the bar, I almost fall in sleep during the chatting and went back to home to take a bath, went sleep inside bath. Nape for 20min . Went to beach to enjoy ocean water. Sun still there, hot and water is warmer. Love the feeling of swimming in ocean, chilled water a little bit, but feel so fresh and a lots of freedom . Got tanned more. 

Dinner was so easy to prepare for him, even 17 people, only took him 30min. I always amazing with his ability of feeding many people at once . This is one of his asset. 

Salad is sweet melon, we did prepare 2 salad, forgot to eat one, lobster, chess, dessert. Lots of wine , champion. It starts at 7:00pm, till 10:00pm , people still all there, we have to "kick them out " at 11:00pm. 

He said this is he first time family reunion , like this everyone sit down, "fight" to talk , no time to lesson, huge noise on the balcony , family is really happen. George's even think about his father, as last time did this wad his father . Which is long long time, like 20years ago . 

His mum said "  thanks for the lobster " , I can feel this is from her heart. Every lobster are fully meated , all alive,  have to say big thanks to nick . T

All the effort I made is worth it. 

19th, wake up tired, went to coffe place I book hotel, we had a fight. He is very pain to work with, I never u delta d why he always. Ad decision so fast and does not care about cost. I tried to get a lower cost. ( we need 3rooms, 2nights) ,he just rush rush to book the one over $1300. I can not accept his way, but can not have 2 head in doing one thing, I gave up. As I expected, he never book therreso ,  he called. Full.  The, I got real piss off. I did everything to bring lobster when he wanted and that is his attitude for getting what I want ? He left, I was crying . 

He came back. Spoke with me softly, bought me to Pornic   Show me around the memorable places of his child hood : first kiss, worse memory ( a big boy beat up his girlfriend ). I felt the s all roads like Italy. Old, antique, quite, narrow space hidden garden . An very Nice tour . 

Lunch was at the Restrauant he believes the best in town, nice food. After, we went to shop together for his cloth, 100 cotten, all white, in a sort called " blanc Et xxx" I guess it means all white. On,y white cloth in store.  He loves it . 

Bought 4 for him. 

Then, went to another store he always go to buy wool sweater, he got his nice sweaters. All happy . 

Back to home and to the beach again, I swim far from beach and not scare to go towards middle of ocean . Very close with ducks, floats myself above surface , ocean energy wrap me around, recharge me . 

Drove to his friend jean Luke place for supper. It close to naute, a small city called Reze,  jean Luke really can do renovations , he did great job in turning his house into a nice open concept living space, feels like Caribbean style, he has 2 daughters , both have very pretty face, Jessica became very big somehow, she has a black boy friend from Martinique, Leslie is small me has a boy friend from Spain,. This normal family in naute has a multicultural combination, made me feel works getting so small and so connected . 8 of us in total, We have black, Chinese, Spanish   , french and Canadian . Interesting evening, George's and jean like spoke a lot, the are brothers. Long time did not see George's socialize like this . 

On the way is already 12:00 idle night, George's said his is the best vacation ever. I mixed well into his family and friends, even I do not speak french, 

20th, we leave the villa, go to Paris, Noah and me took train, rest drive,  

Paris has to the Frances, it is 100years Anniversary . Out hotel is next to champion Le lysis where the bicycle competition is just around .  Hotel is 4 star, because of To the France, Sunday night is extremely expensive. Noah and me arrived hotel first, bought the train tickets for kids to go Amsterdam , settled down, wait him to come. 

He got palpitation again during the dive , I was concerned he drive 3 kids for 5hrs to Paris. 

He booked hotel here for his cousins Sophie , she also got cancers live and work in Paris alone by herself, 40 yeas old no boy friend, still need to deal with cancer, hard life formed wield personality, not a happy person. I was kind of happy supper finished . 

Next day morning m I wake up at 8:00, found a nice place to do yoga. Feels good to own the only space I need, my mind and body feel rich, I started to like yoga more and more.  Depends on it some time to feel peace. 

Later, we took metro to Eiffel tower, so many tourist there, we switch to red bus to tour around Paris, last time he found out lily has boy friend on red bus, he upset and left bus--the starts of device. Tis time, kids and him all good, they are very happy and want to take it. He is so sweet, I feel lots of love from him. Paris is hot , very hot, over 35 degree, we can not stay long on bus, went back to hotel and relax. First time with boys tour around, feels good.  Easy to handle except for Arliss make trouble some times. 

Sophie came in the afternoon, we decided to drive her back, then, we made the worse mistake of the trip, toe the France is on Sunday, every street got blocked, nothing can go through, we are in traffics for hours, tour around Paris, first is ohm then, traffic stack too long to feel fun, after drop her off. W tried to turn a big circle to avoide the bicycle race and went back to hotel. It 10min. Drive turned into over 3 hours. 

22nd, Monday, time for kids to take the train, first time for the life they take train except for Noah( with me the first time ). , we drove to train station earlier, went with Noah to shop for his girl friend, they both want to give the virginity to each other, Noah is over 16th now, it can happen at time. Sweet. Te street we went full of marriage cloth, wedding stuff. Only 2 jewelry  stores  , we bought a necklace.  Train arrived, Arliss realized George's will not go, my god, he crys so badly, Noah had to hold his arm to let George's off the train during it movement, I thought George's will have to go with the train.  Lucky we bought business classmate , boys has WiFi . 

We left also with car, drive to Brussels, 3 hrs with speed at 180 sometimes, Europe has the free speed lane where you can drive 200 km if you like. I will never drive in Europe, the endless circles in Paris , the free speed in Germany, I will lost or kill myself easy. 

 Booked metropole hotel, very nice fire star hotel close to grand place, I wanted Chinese food, we eat the worse Chinese food ever , brussel is all Arabic , fell arabic more than white people , a little dirty every where, building not cleaned, compare to Paris, is day and night. We walk around grand place, lots of sweet stores, all chocolate, waffle is not cooked ! Arabic wrote Chinese words on store to attract Chinese customer and sell none-cooked waffle.  We went to a bar sell 2500 types beers, all packed with young people, very noises. He ate waffle again at Restrauant street behind grand place, restrauant one after the other, tables on the walk way, very busy. Wrought the best chocolate and macron here, ate together with his waffel desert, feels vacation. However, again, palpitation starts, he feels left arm pain. It is the symbol of heart attack, I a, worried. Can feel he is trying hard to support himself to walk back to hotel . He went back to sleep right away, I could not, kept on checking him till 1:00am.i knew how bad can it turns, I will ever want to be Nie Ying. 

Next day, he woke up at 11:00, All fine again. We drive to diamond street in Antwerp,  it is always nice to come to Antwerp, nice old buildings ,  old church, clean street, of course nice diamond ! Most Belgium nice people are here plus Jewish  . I have to remember the day, lots of happiness, we came to fix the bracelet , change it into hard piece so it will not loose easy, however, George's propose to buy a necklace, I got a 0.8 carat E, it is an very bright piece, very good quality, I can see how shine it is from far, love this piece right away. Aviva told me I have " nice diamond " , love this word.  I did changed,when I head the price for €4500, I did not feel surprise at all.  

We went to lunch, Aviva showed us an very nice Restrauant next door - a place sale very nice chocolate and desert ( I was told it the best chocolate of Belgium ) , it has an 40 seating Restrauant inside with best food, the food is like art, came out from it, we went to get the beautiful necklace, man, feel like queen on cloud, i am the most luck girl, successful, rich and with a man love me and spoil me with jewelry once a while, so happy, like a bird, Feel like a real woman . Forget all the troubles . 

We drive directly to Knokle, a beach front for Antwerp people. There is only one little side of belgium has beach , beach front is an very luxury thing for Belgium. This town is like Florida for US, all retired rich Belgium goes there. Crowned , many buildings , people's on the street, bicycle , most old lady are pretty, kids are pretty too.  We can feel the money there. Beach is long but feel dirty, close to boat terminal, I will never go inside swimming, 16 degree , on top of it. We choose to enjoy the steam sauna in hotel in stand, only one good hotel here, La Reverse, 4 star, very expensive, but, close to beach and facility Is good, when you travel one city a day, most time you will spend is inside hotels a good choice will make a huge difference for the day. 

23rd, we heading to Frankfurt, 5 hrs drive , pain, arrived Frankfurt, lucky we booked Hilton hotel, nice place, we went to sauna again, have to record this memory : the sauna is naked for mixed lady and man, so, you go, naked, take an towel, wrap yourself , most man are naked, lady has to do same when you take cold shower, cold water is a well, man, ice cold, I have an very hard time to face the naked men and decide to gave up. Went back to room, dress up, he wanted to go Chinese Restrauant with me and choose one to go, however, palpitation start,  this time is a strong palpitation, we have to take 7.5 hours fly tomorrow, I decided not to go eat outside, he is resting, I ordered take out from the Restrauant , no take out, I went to pick up. It is a chance to tour around Frankfort downtown,  the Restrauant does not even have one customer, food is so so, fried rice is really bad, anyway, this is Chinese food in Europe , I will not try chinese food again in Europe . 

25th, George's wake up at 12:00 noon, I was hopping his palpitation is gone, it still there. The business ticket we upgrade this time is the most valuable, he will be fine for this flight in business class. 

Now I am on flight, will be in Halifax tonight, liu bin and his family are already there for 2 days, it will be very nice to be at home. 

June Harvard and Europe trip July

June 2013, Harvard and Europe trip

Time goes so fast, Seasy's 16th birthday is coming, however , she took a decision to spend 6 weeks in Harvard summer camp, again her birthday will not be at home , i decided to fly her over to Halifax on her birthday . July 4th, I went to Cambridge to see her. It was US national day, Cambridge is hot, over 35 degree, I arrived Harvard inn , very close to her dome "Canady hall" , less than 3 min.  Walk,  I went to her dome, chat with girls. They all go to see fire works. Seasy wants help to get some staff for the apartment , we went to target, bought a lot of things : mirror, speaker, carnage bin.....  Dome is very simple, a table , a book shelf and a bed, they rent a fridge,  that's all . We took taxi , brought stuff to Harvard door, only way to move in is to carry, we took trips , move little bit after the other to reach the dome . Girls were appreciated . 

Seasy went to my hotel, took a full shower and went under sheet to watch movie with me, I can imagine 2 weeks she spent in dome , 5 girls share 4 rooms. 4 apartments share one bathroom , only 2 shadower for about 10 girls. No air cool.  Over 30 degree every day. She must enjoy my hotel a lot. 

I am happy she has this experience, she starts to appreciated a lots of things . 

Movie was very fun, I like it too, Japanese animation . She must be back to dome at 12:30, we run to there, I saw her went inside. 

Friday , July 5th, we went to Boston , I booked a five star hotel langham in downtown so we can enjoy the pre-16th birthday. We took metro from Harvard square to arrived Boston, very convenient, got off right at down town so we talked to hotel , drop off luggage  inside room, we went to Taj hotel where i pre-booked a afternoon tea. Taj hotel is really a nice true 5 star, channel located inside , channel is so unbelievable expensive, I tried a couple of times, just can not do it. Even I have a lots of money, just have an very hard time to actually buy one . I felt the price is way out of line compare to the value. Will not try it again .  

Well, the place i booked was not a true tea place, just a replacement, the waiter is very nice to rebooked for me at right place on saturday . saturday afternoon tea at Taj is the number 1 in boston, limited seats, normally needs to book 1 month in advance . 

Along the Taj hotel is the shopping area, we walked cross street ABCD to prudential centre , before we arrived there, our hands already full of bags. Prudential is middle class, for summer cloth is too much, we ate sushi there, then took taxi went to a mall Seasy like, at Cambridge side.  It is a low end moor , more for students, Seasy bought more cloth. Now, our hands are really full. Very tired, we went to the Vietnamese massage place inside moor, enjoy a luxury package for Manicure and pedicure , massaged foot and arms, felt much relaxing after this 1 hour, it was needed. 

The cheese factory is also inside moor, we decided to try this Restrauant from "the big band  " series . Service is faster than I thought, many "big " people there. Food was good, no wonder it is so popular . 

Arrived hotel already late, we were going to see another movie, but I fall in sleep. All the way to next morning . 

Saturday, July 6th, we woke up went directly to china town, ordered a nice dim sum , we ate a lot. As always, she found her bubble tea in a nice cake store, the store make all kinds of cakes even an "angry bird" cake. 

Boston is hot, we walked on the street,just tour around, water front, tourist centre, there are 3 market, lots of tourist , then, walked back to hotel. Pick up luggage , went to afternoon tea, Taj tea only starts 1:30. W arrived earlier and got seated at 1:00pm, that gave us 1.5 hr to enjoy the tea.  It is an old Victoria style hall, antique decoration , high ceiling , nice tea pot made from high quality porcelain , very relaxing and luxury . No wonder Seasy dream to have an afternoon tea for her 16th birthday. Time goes so fast, have to go to airport. I sent her to redline stop and went to airport . 

My flight delay for 2 hours ! Man, I should always check flight before , I could spend 2more hour Best quality time with Seasy. Thanks god I did not book train from Paris to Nantes, everything delay ! I made a seriousness complain to Lufthansa. 

Stayed at lounge, doing business, read book , I took first class this time , very nice services , they even put a rose on my seat while I am sleeping . More over, they took me from air plane , with a "porch" , drive me through the airport parking ground, not through normal check in building, one attendant leads me to a secret channel , pass a small custom. Made the connection flight to Paris, I really felt like VIP this time . Like spy or secret agent in movie.  They said they do it for all VIP. Next time,I will take first class again. 

July 7th, arrived paris, I have 2 hr in Paris, decided to go buy the white pant that I lost in Singapore, I bought the pant at this airport,  this is a stupid decision , I took taxi to go and come back, spent 45min, inside shop, bought a pant for less than $10,( later George's found a hole in my new pants ) while spent $60 for taxi fare. On top of it, I was so worry about miss TGV train. Will not be driven by the material stuff anymore. This is the last stupidity . 

Georges drive from Netherlands to Pornic, he can pick me up from Nantes,very cool . We are very happy to meet. He rent a nice BMW 530. Like a van, lots Of space . We arrived ste. Marie before supper.

The Vila is really nice , over 150years old, build by stone , over 12 rooms, 2 beds in each room, 4 floors, big back yard with a giant gate in front , very private, An old tree , definable over 100years old, standing in the yard, branches cover the 3floors of the house. Front house is street, we hear people talking all the time, huge balcony on 2nd floor, sit there eating  meal and enjoy ocean view under the shade, 6 of us only use less than half of this house. When it is quiet, noise constantly comes from no where, little cripy.  Georges yield to the noise "if you are ghost, make 2 sounds now" , we still got one sounds only ....

From 8th, to 11th, I stayed 4 days there, very relaxing ,truly went to vacation mood.weather is fantastic,just little too hot in the night.  Window all have big steel curtain to cover the sun,but no wind can come either .  I learned one thing : switch off light, open window to sleep, but next night, there is a bat went inside our room. 

Morning, who to  market , buy fresh bread and fish, back to cook lunch, always fresh food for lunch,then, after nape, go to beach , swimming , sun tan,read book.back to house after 6:00, supper again, the , work a little before go sleep. I have to try to find time do yoga, believe or not , my schedule is pretty full. I enjoyed a lot this type of doing nothing , stress free vacation, my body released all the accumulated tire, I sleep a lot, eat a lot. Think nothing .  Beach time is the best for me. I finished 2books, got sunburn, swimming I cold water, 18 degree, very refreshing , ideas come to my mind why I floating above fresh chilled water and relax.  Float on salt water is one of the best relaxing .boys jump from cliff to the ocean . Very active.  

From Nantes to Pornic only has small road,nori way, a 20min. Drive become 45min.,but, leases tourist, only rich people' castle here, most castle surrounded by stone wall, and big old tree grown inside to cover the castle . Government does not allow the castle own the beaches in front, a narrow walk path is build between castle And ocean front, very relax walking with fantastic view .  AtlAntic ocean is always cold, but still can swim.  Cliff all around ocean, many small beach in between the cliff. Water is clear, see through. Big sun

Shine above your head,  wet swimming suit can dry in 10min. 

No commercial noise , no car passing by, max. 50-60 people on beach , only one bar  , georges opened a tab for kids, they just go pick up ice cream, 2 a day allowance . 

A Paradise land . 

First time, I do gaga , facing sun, in a quite castle , birds around , ocean just 50meter away,feel addicted , want to do it every day.  I did yoga with a tower on stone floor, very hard, but feels great, I will appreciated yoga mat very much. 

July 12th, early morning 6:00am at Nantes, I am sitting on the train to Paris, after spent 5 days vacation at St. Marie,  i need to fly back for Seasy's birthday, i will fly from paris to frankfurt to PHL, then pick up my daughter, back to Halifax  , 

wake up 5:00 am, Georges sent me to Nantes train station. No breakfast, it closed, I went to business carte and sat down planing the trip, 3min. Before train leaves , I familiar hand showed in front of me , I raised head : it is him to send me breakfast ! So surprised , big smile in his face . I see love . I felt sleep on the train, 3hrs going so fast, now is arrived Paris airport. 

Transit at Frankfurt is very short, 25min. In total to boarding, have to go though immigration , very appreciated the immigration is so simple, I can not help to ask if this is custom . On board on time and will be in philidophia soon to meet my daughter. 

First time arrived PHL, airport is not big, lots of shops , well organized, hard to lost. I went to lounge , Internet is so bad, have to take a bus to another terminal to find a lounge with Internet . Time always goes fast when I doing business . Soon, her flight is coming, I went to meet her, so happy to see her, cool girl now, pretty . We went to gate , saw flight delayed 1 hour, went to lounge, reception told us gate changed, gate is closing in 5 min., we run to gate, thanks god, we made it . 

I did not prepare, She cried on air craft, there is too much stress, got to release and I am the one to take it.  We discuss a lot about future, life, effort , choice in life. I am happy she got this opportunity, this camp made her mature , truly easy for the world challenge.  Even through it costs her a lot . 

Wilber pick up us, like normal, he is late, we waited on the chair. 

Seasy is so appreciated home now 

"Wa, my own shower , alone  " 

" my own room, own bed , sleep under sheet. " it was too hot I'm Boston , no air condition. she was sleep with nothing . 

We arrived home 1:00am, she slept till 10:00am . 

13th, the day we decided for celebration the 16th birthday. 

Seasy's first gift : hair cut, she went to Clorox the hair with blond at bottom. 3 hours . 

I bought roses, bloom, prepare supper,  she went with Wilber and other 3 kids to water front for Jazz festival , I got chance to drive mum around to take photo for her english class. 

She came back at 6:30, we had a nice family dinner, thanks for Wilber, he bought the cake, we can not find enough candle, so we used one candle with 8, plus 8 candles to make it 16. Finally, mu daughter turns into 16. It is very nice Angela show up before we ate candle, Seasy is very happy with 2 friends célèbre with her . 

She went out to walk after, came back late. 

14th, real birthday, Again, sleep late, wake up at 10:00. I drove her to downtown to meet her other friends. Lucky, she met two of them.  We plan to eat at her favourite Restrauant  for a true birthday lunch, when we arrived, found out it closed. Sadly ate at pizza place,  no one like it. 

Seasy stressed again for homework. It has to be a report of owner or something special in town. She has 2 hrs left to airport . What can she do? 

She cried, 2nd time in 2 days. I offered help. Glad I can help, I have an Apps on cell phone about all events in Halifax, showed her the report of Lebanese festival, her eyes start to shine . We drove to there, she hangs the Harvard key chain on neck, started her first journalist job. Spoke with organizer for the festival,  food, volunteer , 1hr past, she got all information she needed , on the way out , she met the real journalist from global TV with a Big camera to interview someone. She went there became the 2nd interviewer. 

Everything finished perfectly . 

Wilber drive her to airport. It has to be mentioned here. As she did not apply I20, she may not allow to entering US if they found out she is study there. I bought Wilber a ticket so he can go through custom with  Seasy together.  Wilber can not even lay with same flight with Seasy. I checked for days, only on 13th night, after supper, there is one ticket show up on Aeroplan for Halifax to Boston via New York, if I buy tickets,needs to pay over $1300 one way. Seasy really has good luck, I got one ticket for Wilber . He will sleep at airports and back next day 6:45 am to Halifax,  it is a crazy arrangement , has to write down to remember . 

Seasy arrived Boston , she took the metro, but wrong direction , final,y she arrived doom, but a. Surprise ! Roommate knew her birthday ! They went to china town together to eat Chinese food with her . Boston china town is small and all Cantonese speaking , they have to order chinese food with English .  But, I believed they have fun, life is so funny, for past 16 years, since she went to grade 1,  she never can have birthday party as it is always during summer vacation , I am glad we did celebrate a lot when she was in kindergarten . Now, Harvard only 2 weeks, she got a surprise birthday party . I am very happy for her . 

After she left,  i went to French's with my parents. 

Monday ,  i worked in office, fixed a lots of things for business. 16th, tuesday, in office, i smell gas, asked colleagues, they said nothing, i spread my office with air freshener . 10min. later, power shit off, police came said gas leak on street, we have to evacuate the building . left office 11:00, bought whole office for a sushi in towm , took a taxi to pick up mum, went to dentist ,  her tooth. Is so bad, doctor removed 2 and have to fix the 3rd one with root cannel . I have i spent over $1500 . Never mind, I am glad I an fix mum's teeth. 

17th, I should leave to France again , we decide to being lobster for a party in france, i arranged lobster and asked my driver Denise to pick me up to airport. he is 15min, late. I run to airport, gate closed, I managed to go without check in  luggage , otherwise, next flight is 7:00pm to Montreal, I will miss France flight.  So, no lobster can go with me,. 

I ever give up things ,  called  nick in Montreal to meet me at airport with lobster . Luck me, he went to fish market, bought lobster, put into his suitcase --3 of them. And will give to me in airport. 

Story does not end like this. 

My flight to Montreal is late, I was have 45min. Transit,  there is a heavy rain in Montreal airport, flight delay, i was close o 30 in. late. 

run to the counter to check in. i was the last passenger , gate closed already , an very nice gentleman agreed to help me. Only gave me 3min.  But nick did not arrive yet ! I went outside to meet Nick, this 5 min. Longer than one year! 

I saw Nick finally with a tan top, strong body, never see this before. He came with 3 suitcases of lobster !  The guy let me in. Thanks god!  He did not even charge me for the luggage ! " this time, I let you go, remember gate close 1 hour Before, you are 15min.  Late, you will never get lucky again if next time happen . " 

I am so appreciated, my luck came back ! Finally , 

However, story still did  not finish:  I arrived security at 6:50, boarding already started . Rush, run ........ The dame hall is so long, I run and run, 20min. Still not there . Finally, arrived gate  60. Last passage onboard ! 

Sit down, sweat, constantly , oh, forgot to mention I was business class, this is the only reason, I can make the whole thing, I went to security with special entering, faster . 

My legs are sore still during the flight, thanks god I doing yoga daily, otherwise, run 20min. to gate will kill me.  I am so glad that my Heath is good . 

These lobsters are arrived with my running, sweat, stress, begging, bargain, and my luck. Hopefully he's people will enjoy it a lot. George's got to treat me with a best massage! 

Sill on the plane, fly to Nantes, direct flight, only 6.5 hrs. Let see how he behave when I arrive. 

June 2013 Harvard

June 2013 Harvard 

Seasy finished exam, she did very well, like all the other years, or even better this year. She started to put the smartness on the exam, I am very happy for her achievement, very proud of her, have her is the best thing in my life . Just regret I did not have another one .  The love. I have towards her is none replaceable by anything, I accepted her , take care of her and truly love her . 

It was my idea to have her experience the world best university experience, as I do not know how to lead her to choose IB. course, I know she will have a bright future if I can guild her proper, but I do not know how,  it is the time she has to find out on her own, I provide a plate form, she can go jump from there. I can not jump for her. This is the choice only she can make.  First year. She refused to go. 2012, she said she will go if another kid go. I was concern she is too young, did not push, but 2013, she will be 16, she can go now, i asked my friend, Mao yu feng to let her super smart daughter Betty to go. However, my judgement was wrong, the parents found out too expensive and did not provide the opportunity to Betty.  Seasy smart enough to take the chance and go alone. 

I remembered how happy we all are when we know she got accepted by Harvard , then we concerned a lot about how she will stay for 6 weeks in campus alone.  Today is July 12th, I am very happy to know Seady made it . 

Wilber and me flew on June 22nd to bring  her to campus, seasy is the last one arrived. She kept on saying other girls are so nice, Morgan is french/Korean mix. One Korean, one from Indiana , one black and Seasy. She is the only one from Canada, girls laughing at her accent . They choose Nero biology , chemical , physical , all different, but they all smart kids.  I have confident from then that she will like it and enjoy this 6 weeks.  She started to be nice too , there are 5 girls only 4 rooms, she decided to share rooms. She lets other girl choose first and took the left over up-bed.  We did not say anything, helped her to settle down, then, walk around the campus to get other stuff done with her . Campus is really nice,  nice talk solid building inside the wall, lots of green empty space with big trees, students lying down on grass under the sun, enjoy the knowledge . Outside of campus is Harvard square, Harvard coop store, this Cambridge town is build for Harvard , lots of positive energy , I feel young, excited, feel desire to get better in life . Seasy did not know what she is having now till later. 

We tried some restrauant in town, she is very happy she found bubble tea, I was very happy to know i a, young : no one believe i a, the mum of seasy, they all say we are sisters. oh, we met grammar school principle on first day in Harvard . He is getting student ID, same as seasy, so now she has a principle classmate, boston is hot, very hot, seasy doom has no air cool, but she is not allowed to stay in my hotel which is close to her doom, about 10 girls in one floor, with one bath room . I was concerned that Seasy will not be able to take it easy. She has her own bed room plus own shower since she was little, always hate people share her bathroom . 

next day , she was fine, just said it was hot, Breakfast, we went to have salad at market, walking distance from her place, has all the food she needs, however, no fridges she can not buy anything . We took fly back next day, in the flight, I realized deeply, this is the best things ever do for her. 

Problem starts from Monday , she does not like the course she choose: sociology. She found out every kid study very hard, spend every night at library , she became a dummy all of sudden , does not understand half do what teacher said, never have this feeling before, she always the best in school. All the pride are gone . She decided to change class, this means she has to take her existing class and other class at same time , she starts to lost organization : no time to eat; can not find class place; took wrong lesson and realized in the middle have to finish it and take right one again, every lesson is 3 hrs, she running out of time . 

"Mum, can I go back Halifax ?"

" yes, you always welcome home, but one day you have to facing real life, the late you start, the less time you have to prepare, you will run out if time. " 

" mum, too hot, I can not sleep, then, I got up late no time for breakfast, no time for lunch either" 

" remember , your health go first" 

" mum, I do not know which one to chooses, proctor told me can not help, no one can help. Can I go back home?" 

" mum, I have red eyes, maybe a fever, I went to CVS , pharmacy asked me to go to emergency. I called taxi, no one know where it is" 

I freak out this time, called management myself and left strong message. Harvard is not bad. Assistant dean offered help. He is an Indian , he helped Seasy to choose the course, fix the red eyes. Seasy starts to know there is a group that can help. 

Finally, she choose math and journalist. Fridge comes on Thursday , her most difficult first week past. Second weeks I will go visit her. Felt it really necessary to go. Seasy called me so many times the 1st week, I almost thought I made a wrong decision to let her be there. However, all other girls are similar age, they all fine. She should be able to make it. 

2nd week is smoother, nothing too serious happen. Math is 3hr daily lesson, plus evening do home work. Exams frequently . When I asked her what she wants for 16th birthday, answer is " tutor" . This camp indeed started to Change her life.