Leahs Cafe

When I was 13 years old, I often couldn’t see clearly what was written on the blackboard in school. I told my parents about it, they just dismissed me because they thought I wanted to wear glasses for the vain reasons, not until that incident happened.

It was in the beginning of the year, the new English teacher gave us a test, she wrote the questions on the blackboard. Since I couldn’t see clearly, I asked my friend KF to help me to copy the questions. Being a good friend, she obliged. When my friend passed the paper with the questions back to me, the teacher saw it.

She thought we were trying to cheat in the test. She took our papers away and gave each of us a big fat zero. We tried to explain to her what was going on but she wouldn’t listen. My parents of course learned about that when the report card was sent home. My dad brought me to an optical shop to get a pair of glasses the same day!

Being a careless teenager, there were numerous pairs of glasses broken, frames bended or misplaced over the years. They were no $ 8 Zenni Optical Rx Eyeglasses and they cost a few hundreds bucks per pair. Till today, my parents still joke that they have spent all their retirement fund replacing glasses for me. :-)

We spent a few hours cleaning out the store room at the preschool, throwing away some of the stuffs and sending some recyclable materials to the recycle center. We have a sewing machine, a power tool and a sanding machine that we haven’t decided what to do with them.

We used to do some wood work creating wooden boxes and shelves for the Montessori classroom, that’s why we have sander machine, sander abrasives and sanding sponges lying around. Do you know what is a sander machine? Go to Delta machinery and click on the category on the sidebar, you will see how crazy we were to own one of this machines. :-)

There are a couple of things that we need to settle before the pending move to IL. One of them will be to rent out our house before the move.

We do not plan to sell it yet because the real estate market is really sluggish in this area and the resell value of our house is horrible. We live not too far from a university, it’s not too difficult to rent out the house as the demands for rentals are reasonably good.