Movie Night

 From Saturday, September 22, 2010

Soccer Update:  Ravens 3, Falcons 1.  Thea scored the first goal in the game.

The principal of Thea's Sunday Chinese language school was looking for family's to take students from China attending Rider University to see the movie, Mao's Last Dancer at the local cinema.  She sent an email yesterday saying a few families had volunteered to go to the late afternoon show, but no one had gotten back to her for the 7:15 show and there were three students wanting to go.

Why not?  The movie trailer looked interesting.

All I would need to do is show up in the parking lot of the building at Rider University where Thea's class is at 6:30, pick up three students and go to the movies.

Two of the three showed up, Grace and Zoe.  Good thing I cleared the car seats out of the back seat, because both chose to sit there.  Which, thanks to reading Peter Hessler's Country Driving, I sort of expected.

The evening was an interesting look at the other end of the spectrum of China's one-child only policy.  These were two women who are both only children, studying half a world away from Guandong and Shanghai.  Both liked being an only child. Neither experienced any of the hardships of the era depicted as they were born long after.

We stopped at the Shop Rite after the film, and one bought $39 worth of sodas, bottled ice teas and Starbucks frappucinos and paid for it with her American Express Gold Card.

Both were curious as to Thea and Micah being born in China and adopted, and despite their English being excellent, it was both hard to explain international adoption, microtia/atresia, etc. in the course of a 15 minute ride back to the university.

The movie was great, by the way.