Movie Night

Ann and Helen went on an overnight bus trip to Guandong province. They are going to some village known for its ceramics. It sounds interesting but I decided to pass on spending a day as the only male on a bus of women and girls. The trip was organized by teachers at Thomas's school, XIS, and Deborah and Kate - our downstairs neighbors - also went.

Thomas, Sophia and I stayed in for a simple meal of eggs, noodles and broccoli. Then Thomas watched Pirates of the Caribbean 3 while Sophia and I read books. Sophia returned to the TV at the climax of the movie to exasperate Thomas. There was a lot of rain and Sophia kept asking "man need rain coat?". She just couldn't figure out why the pirates wouldn't put on rain coats. After all, she has a yellow plastic rain coat (left by the Fulbright girls last year) that is so nifty she wears it on sunny days. Then, when a lot of water seemed to come into a ship, Sophia very reasonably asked if they needed a "water bucket?". She proceeded to say "water bucket?" about 150 times - until Thomas almost pulled his hair out.