School Trip

     My youngest daughter, Annlie, is on the plane heading for Australia now. It's a school trip of her junior high school. She'll visit Cairns and Sydney and have a homestay in Cairns.
     She was only 12 years old when I took her abroad for the first time. She couldn't understand English at all at that time. I remember that she tried to speak to a cabin attendant of Air Canada, "Could I have an orange juice?" ,which I taught her. She loves dogs and wanted to take pictures of dogs that were being walked at Whistler. After she memorized this phrase, "May I take a picture of your dog?", she took pictures of more than 30 dogs saying this phrase. Speaking in English seemed to be fun for her.
     Three years later, she reached the sub-2nd grade in STEP (Society for Testing English Proficiency). It's great work. She is good at English as a subject. I hope that she will be able to enjoy real communication with Australian people.