It's just not that Unusual

Doors are over rated right?

I mean, who needs a door when you can just crawl through a window to enter a building?

Because that's what Eden has been doing the past few weeks when she goes to preschool.

So this one day Brandon came home from dropping Eden off at preschool and said, "They want us to drop Eden off at the back window now when we take her and pick her up."

After some semi-confusing conversation with her teachers (semi-confusing because my Chinese skills are still under par...over par? I have no idea. My golf skills are bad too.)
Anyway, what we think they were saying is that the preschool is next to an elderly couple's apartment. The preschool is in an apartment so it's surrounded by actual tenants. And apparently they complained about the door to the preschool opening and closing too often, loud children, and what not. So the solution for awhile was to climb through the back window.

And then the elderly couple kept complaining. And kept complaining. And kept complaining.

Not about us specifically. But just about the noise level of the kids. And we all know, kids are going to be noisy kids, no matter how many times you ssssshhhhhh them and no matter what nationality they are.

And since the preschool's teachers are too nice to say, "Get over it Granny!" the preschool is moving to a new location. It's bigger and better, so really, it's a win/win.

We realized just how adjusted to the culture we've become though, when they told us that we needed to pick her up from the window for awhile. Because our immediate thought was not, "hmmmm, that's strange." or "uhhhhhhhh....alllllriiight....."

It was more along the lines of, "ok. sure!"  Because, well, that's just China. And in China, picking your kid up from preschool through a window is just something that's not that unusual.