AIDS Red Ribbon Ride

谢谢为AIDS Red Ribbon Ride捐款的朋友们:-) 我的页面上最终筹到了$320，超过了规定需要的$300。能在短短的一周内得到那么多人支持让我很感动。 22号那天的骑车活动还算挺顺利的。骑100英里的一共有20个人，早上7点半就出发了，上午是在雨中骑的。我中途走错了几次路，落在大部队的后面。返回途中因为安全考虑，后援车把我们靠后的几个接上车去送了20多英里。最后我的码表显示是78英里。没有完成有些遗憾，希望以后能有机会完整骑完。 出发前的准备 和Michel的合影。他在AIDS Care工作

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AIDS Red Ribbon Ride——请支持:-)

事情的起因是这样的——我有一位朋友Michael在Rochester的AIDS Care Center工作。他人很nice，前一阵刚刚志愿去埃塞俄比亚培训当地医生（好景仰~~），最近刚回来。他们中心每年会办一次筹款骑车的活动，今年在8月底，Michael邀请我同去。既然又是骑车又挺有意义的，我当然很荣幸地答应啦。 骑车的起点和终点都在Rochester，一共是100英里（大概160公里吧），8月22号那天当天骑完。这个强度的话，恩，锻炼锻炼应该还行吧。 然后就是寻求支持的部分了。这种慈善骑行的活动是要车手自己筹款的，而且还有下限，而且还不少——这次活动除了报名费每个车手至少要筹$300的捐款。所以想请在美国的有一点闲钱的同学慷慨解一下囊啦~ $5，$10都好的，感激不尽！或者少捐一点在我页面上留一下言，也同样感谢！ 我的筹款页面：http://www.firstgiving.com/yueyu 谢谢啦:-)

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Fridays with Kids (10)

O had saw me from the window when I ride to the Racker Center today. When Alisa asked him "what’s outside the window" later in the day, he said "Yue’s bike"—the boy gives surprises every time! A new event was added to the circle time today. Jena prepared pictures of different songs; each kid chose [...]

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Fridays with kids (9)

This morning the temperature is about 10°C below zero. Many things can freeze in this temperature, including the bike rack on the bus and my nose when cycling down the hill. All children in Racker Center went on a bus to Ithaca College today—they have a weekly swimming course there in Wednesdays, and because of [...]

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Fridays with Kids (8)

The last portait is for D, a child from Korea. D is quite different from the others—he is quite, sweet, and less likely to get excited. When he’s upset he would cry, but never shout at others or throw things to the ground. Thus it is easy to keep him calm and safe. However, D’s [...]

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Fridays with Kids (7)

This is a quite day because only 3 children with autism came. Alisa did a yearly assessment for O, and I watched it. O was good at most intellectual questions (body parts, colors, etc.), and he is superior in matching letters with sounds (e.g., A for /a:/). Jenna said most children learn the sounds of [...]

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Fridays with Kids (6)

The teachers of the hippo class took turns to take care of children—for each half an hour each teacher is responsible for one or two children, helping them to do daily routines and training them, and then they rotate. Today is the first day that I enter this rotation, which means I also take some [...]

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Fridays with Kids (5)

Yesterday at the visit to Dr. Hudenko’s lab two things impressed me most. The first is that children with autism produce less non-vocal (social) laughter but more vocal ("geniun") laughter than typically developing children. The second is that people generally like those "geniun" laughter better. C, a girl with autism in Racker Center, perfectly demonstrated [...]

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Fridays with Kids (4)

This is a quiet day because only 5 children came (3 with autism and 2 daycare). But the atmosphere of Hallowmas still made the day special.  Children draw pumpkins, sing Hallowmas rhymes and eat pudding with smashed pumpkins and cookies. Today Alisa tried a new training method with O. O has been trained here for [...]

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Fridays with Kids (3)

It is the first snowy weekend in Ithaca this winter. Corn fields around Racker Center were covered with snow, and so was the roof and school buses. Today’s charactor would be H. H is the most physically active and energatic one among the hippos (each class is named after an animal, and for the autism [...]

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