A Long, but Rewarding Week

It has been a long week filled with changes to our schedules, and our outlooks...

Super Husband started his second semester of Mandarin here in China on Monday. He seems to like his  professors for this semester better than those of last semester, but is still being buried under a mountainous pile of work. Even now, on Saturday evening, he's bent over the desk here in the apartment mumbling foreign words, pencil scratching out tiny characters. The pencil moving across the page even sounds different in Chinese.
It was strange to not see him all week after him being here in the apartment for the past two months during his break. We'll adjust to the new schedule again, of course.
And speaking of new schedules, I signed a one year contract with American House on Tuesday.
American House is the kind of school I wish I had signed with originally. It was founded in 2006 by an American man, Art, and his Chinese born American educated business partner, Shelly. I have yet to meet Art, but have met Shelly already on three occasions in the past week. She gave a training on Monday about the school's vision and expectations, and another on Thursday about active teaching for reading comprehension. Part of the school's standards, vision, and motto is using "best practices and newest research" to teach children. And both the teachers and students are better for it. These kids are really impressive. Entire classrooms of three and four year olds are reading. Of course they're not reading James and the Giant Peach out loud to their kindergarten classmates yet, but I only know of one person that can boast of that kind of early reading success. (Sadly, it wasn't even me.)
Another part of the "vision" is that the school, and company, provide a platform for those that are truly passionate about learning and teaching to become better teachers. I can't say it enough, I'm really hating that I didn't find this kindergarten before leaving Houston. It would have made a world of difference in not only the last few weeks, but the last six months.
The only down side to American House is that it's farther away than my last school. Or perhaps I should say that the downside is that my lease on this apartment doesn't run out until September. Either way, it's a 25 minute subway ride, and then a 5 minute bus ride to American House from my apartment. I'm not complaining, but I probably will be selling my bike. I've considered taking it over there some how and leaving it at the subway down there, then riding it from the subway to work, and back again. Right now that wouldn't be terrible, but as Beijing heats up... I'd rather not arrive to work dripping. Or battle the imminent dust storms.

I'm trying to get the school's website, but it's oddly hard to find. They're not hiding it, it's on the banner outside the front of the school, I just can't remember it. And multiple google searches yield results varying from architecture sites to a spelling and phonics website that some of the teachers are enrolled in. But not the school's actual website.
Never fear. I have my sources working on the problem.
I do have to say that while in the US I tend to look down on a company that doesn't have even a small web presence, but here I have had to change my way of thinking. While most Western run businesses have websites, it seems that only half, or maybe even less, of the Chinese run businesses I interact with have a discernible web presence. Maybe that's because I'm using google, and not SinaWeibo or QQ to look them up. Who knows.

Now it's Saturday evening, and while Super Husband continues to study, I continue to browse the internet for Easter themed crafts.

P.S.
Did anyone catch the hidden news in the first few paragraphs?