At the end of the first week, both Ziad and Maya are saying that they love studying chemistry. Interesting. I read facts about hydrogen to them, as well as an introduction to atoms. They did some really inconsequential copy work (Hydrogen is a gas. Hydrogen is very light.) and we started a timeline -- right now 1766, the year when Henry Cavendish showed hydrogen to be an element, is our only entry. We also enjoyed learning about Cavendish himself, an eccentric who dressed in old-fashioned clothes and was too shy to talk to women or people he didn't know.
The fun part is that I have never, ever studied chemistry, not in high school, not in college, so I'm learning right along with them, and filling in what I've always viewed as a gaping hole in my education. Lifelong learning. What a concept.
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Sometimes I wish I can learn everything with Henry, and in some cases, just relearn stuff that I only know in Chinese. That would be fun.
I like re-learning things I didn't care about back when learning stuff was my job.
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