哥哥首次交換學生之旅 ~ Day 7 Autodesk+science museum Exploritorium+Cable
Car museum+ Goat Hill Pizza
Day 7 2014/05/01
寶貝~想不到你到美國已經第七天了....有沒有想我們啦!! 人家妳妹昨天在看你的照
片時，講了一句很有感觸的話:媽咪，為何駿祥哥哥來我們家，時間過得這樣快；可是
，哥哥去美國，時間過得好慢喔.....。妹妹，真的想你了呢!!
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Breakfast is hash brown (fried shreadded potato), scramble egg and ham.
今天的早餐，哇! 媽媽我很喜歡吃這種馬鈴薯籤咧.....
This is Eason's lunch box today. He told me the other day that the 4 half size
sandwiches was too much so I only made him 2 this time. Plus an egg, a sausage
octopus, and 2 string cheese. He loves string cheese.
今天HOME媽幫哥哥準備兩份三明治，上次因為準備四份似乎吃不下，所以今天只帶兩份。
愛孩子的HOME媽怕哥哥會吃不飽，還幫哥哥準備了香腸、蛋及那兩條他最愛的起司。
不要說他，媽媽我也想嚐嚐那起司條的咧.......
Then we took the muni to school again cause I stayed back at school to help with the field
trip today too. The school is at Ven Ness station. Can you see the station name at the back.
吃完早餐後就搭Muni上學，搭到Ven Ness station，今天我家的home媽要一起校外教學!
This is a CAIS sign outside the school. Ethan is wearing the CAIS P.E uniform.
CAIS的學校外部看版。
We're one of the first ones in the playground.
哇!我們是第一個到校的呢!! (我家buddy還很想睡呢....so poor!)
進教室休息一下。嘖嘖嘖.....你一大早在吃啥呀?! 媽媽我準備的零用錢沒說可
以買這一樣喔!!
The Ren-Ai kids are having P.E lessons. They are listening to instructions on
playing dodgeball.
今天體育課的主題~躲避球。
Now the CAIS kids are here. All the kids are divided into groups. All the other moms
have 4 kids but I'm assigned 6. I was told that because I'm very strict so they assign
more to me. !!!
體育課結束後，CAIS的孩子一起到體育場集合。大家開始分組，一組都是4+4，我的
HOME媽在管孩子上比較嚴厲，分到的是6+6。 (這和我一樣，校外教學時，老師也常
派給我比較皮的孩子~~)
This is my group. I'm looking after Ethan & Eason, Micah & Jason, Mia & Annie.
(Chris & Conner are peeking from behind). We're at the muni entrance.
最後調整為4+4，大家乖一點，準備出發囉~~
The first place of visit is Autodesk. Lila's mom Sandy works here. They are a com-
puter graphics design company.
今天的第一個景點~Autodesk (ㄟ~上次不是去過嗎? 原來是別組先去啦!)
Sandy arranged a tour guide for the kids.
孩子們聽得非常認真~
Lot's of hands on things to do here. This is Eason trying out the drive along the
Golden Gate Bridge route. 看起來孩子們都很喜歡這一台。
開心的咧~~~
You can help build the dinosaurs lego. 拼樂高~~
和Micah聊天。
Then we walked about 10 mins to a science museum Exploritorium. We had lunch
outside before going in. Eason commented that his lunch is too much but when
other kids want to eat it, he wouldn't let them.
參觀結束後就步行10分鐘後到 science museum Exploritorium。大夥就找個地方開
始吃午餐。我家哥哥口中直說吃不下、吃不下，但朋友向他要東西吃時，他又不給，
沒水準...
This museum is also a very hands on museum. Lots to touch and play.
吃完中餐後就進去參觀囉!!!
The kids are watching people laughing on TV. The display is to show that laughter
can be contagious.
孩子們正在看電視，節目中，有許多演員一直在笑。藉由此節目讓大家知道"笑"是
有感染力的，是可以不斷蔓延的。
Making steam come out.
Group photo time!
一回學校之後，接著就上美術課，延續昨天陶藝上色。這些臭男生邊畫邊搞笑...
你看看! 這組就乖很多呢!! ㄟ~ 為何桌上有杯"珍珠奶茶"呀?!
哥哥的成品
下午的第二堂課~Hip hop，跳舞課耶!! 超好笑的啦!! 【跳舞影片】
我兒子跳舞像章魚一樣，腳會打結在一起啦!!
Back at school the Ren-Ai kids did Hip Hop dance and ceramics. I stayed around
with other moms in a nearby cafe as it was only about an hour so it didn't make
sense to go home. Today we're taking the cable car.
今天下課後，HOME媽帶哥哥去坐舊金山市最有名的cable car。
The kids hang off the cable car. They loved it! 安安也有一起來喔!!
Eason is totally excited about it. He said there are no such cable car in Taiwan.
HOME媽說，我家哥哥一坐上車就超興奮的，因為台灣沒有這樣的車!!
Hang on tight! If you fall off, your mom will kill me... :-)
HOME媽不斷的叮噹兩個小朋友:要抓好啦!!
This is the Cable Car museum. There's a gift shop here.今天參觀Cable Car
museum 媽呀! 哥哥! 你也幫幫忙，照相時肚子也給它收一下，可嗎?! 還插腰咧...?!
The cable cars have no engines or power. They rely on the cables that are
constantly running under the rails. So when they want to go, they hook on to the
cables and when they want to stop, they detach themselves from the cables.
These are the cables running the four lines.【CABLE CAR官網】
纜車的原理~於地下設置鋼纜，以巨大的引擎為動力牽引纜車前進。纜索由114股
鋼索盤結而成，在7公分深的鋼軌槽溝內運作，而駕駛利用槓桿操縱纜扣，扣住運
作中的纜索，於是纜車便以時速十英哩以下的速度前進。
Having a rest at the museum. The seat are like a roller coaster ride...
這是模擬車上的椅子裝置
Whew.....! Over the hill we go! 哇! 衝下來囉!!! (這兩個還挺有演戲天份的嘛!)
These are the actual gears they use in the cable cars. 這尺寸是原本的大小喔!
What a beautiful day for a cable car ride! 搭cable car去換Muni!
Can you see the transamerica pyramid building in front?
看到了嗎?! 前面就是有名的Transamerica Pyramid，這汎美金字塔共48樓，為市內最
高建築，常出現在美國電影中。它另一特色是共有3678片玻璃，一開始在1972年完工
時不受好評，現可說是舊金山著名地標之一喔!!
Eason gets the best view from the front.... hang on.... 小心哪!!!
Time to go home. Eason has to get his muni ticket by himself now.
今天的城市之旅結束囉，準備要和buddy的哥哥匯合一起吃晚餐囉~~ home媽讓他
自已買Muni的票，這就對了! 等明年我們去美國時，這件小事就交給哥哥囉!!
He also loves standing at the front looking at the direction the trains are going.
他也很喜歡坐第一節看車子開往的方向。
I dropped the kids off at our music teacher's place for lessons and homework while
I bring Ling's bike for a tire change. Dinner tonight is our neighbourhood pizza place.
This place is famous for its sourdough pizza base. They do a really good job here.
The pizzas are yummy.
因為今天buddy有音樂課，home媽讓我家哥哥一起去看看、玩玩，下課後就到家
附近的一家pizza店吃晚餐。【Goat Hill Pizza 官網】
Eason picked cheese and pepperoni pizza. 哥哥點了cheese 及pepperoni口味。
嘿嘿! buddy也點一樣的喔!!
Back home they get 15 mins of play time and they decided to play dodgeball in my
bedroom. It's got the biggest space.
回到家後，孩子們爭取到15分鐘的happy time，有沒有搞錯! 在home媽房間裡打?!
別再丟囉! 媽媽我看了冷汗直流咧~~~
Because pizza is Eason's absolute favourite food, we got him two extra slices to
bring home to eat. Yum!
天呀! 一定是我家哥哥應ㄠhome媽多買兩片的啦!! 這吃完、動完，再吃，寶貝，
小心點.......真的會變豬喔!!
今天看到孩子搭cable car的照片，不禁讓我想起19年前，曾在SF待一個半月
的日子。寶貝，那曾是我最快樂的一段時光，我相信，這次也將是你最開心的
出國經驗。
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