The eldest little traveller is eleven. This means she has entered the world of the tween and is beginning to speak another language.
It's a language I'm picking up in snippets.
I find it's much the same as learning French or Arabic, apart from the fact there are no books and every time you get something wrong your teacher rolls her eyes and tells you you're sooooooo embarrassing!
The other challenge is I can never receive a set lesson time, it's important that I catch what she's said the first time around as having to repeat yourself to your mother is about as annoying as a mosquito in a sleeping bag. Don't even bother trying to schedule a lesson in the morning.
Apart from the usual gangsta talk, I'm learning a whole new concept of "like". Gone are the days of just "liking" something, you have to "like, like" it. As in "like" it online.
Ms 11 is not on Facebook and doesn't have a phone, but she's a keen Instagram fan.
"Can you post that so I can like it?" has become a regular request.
"But I know you like it?"
"Yeah, but I want to like like it.
Every time we watch a link together on my laptop I receive the prompt.
"You need to like it".
"But I'm not sure if I like it that much?"
"You should still like it"
This appears to be a universal issue. A girlfriend of mine who has a household of girls, refereed a recent argument over a picture on Facebook "I posted it and you didn't 'like' it" announced the eldest to her younger sister. She'd said she liked it, but she hadn't like liked it.
It's important to "like" it.
You may have noticed there's something new on 4 kids, 20 suitcases... today.
I have a Facebook page. It's up there in the top right hand corner. I turned a 10 minute exercise in to about three hours of blogging template hell - it wasn't pretty and I will not be heading back in to the world of html code for awhile.
If you like, you can like it.
Your 11-year-old must be soooooo proud!
ReplyDeleteOh to be 11 and know EVERYTHING again...sigh
ReplyDeleteLike, can you tell me how in the world you got that pretty looking "Find Us on Facebook" jiggy up? I realize you may not want to delve back into the html hell but perhaps you could point me in the right direction.
ReplyDeleteI made it so much harder than it needed to be. Happy to help out if I can. I'll shoot you a text when I get home from our crabbing exbidition. Kx
Delete'Liking' you even more,Kirsty! J x
ReplyDeleteI like it! ;)
ReplyDeleteHow did you go? Shoot me a note if you need some help, I think I made it a LOT more difficult than it should have been. Kx
ReplyDeleteNow can you add a "love it" button for those who don't just "like" it? I agree with JustKooki and have serious blogger envy on your snazzy facebook thingy. I could never quite work out the various ways of getting people to like your post vs liking your page in general. Maybe that's because I haven't created a FB page yet:-)
ReplyDeleteMy lovely husband tells me he wants a "like" button on my boobs. I tell him I want a" like" button on our bed. Which flicks to "unlike" when he snores.
ReplyDeleteI like you. You know that. And I did all the clicking thing too. xx
I liked it too, like liked it!!
ReplyDeleteMercifully my new teen speaks in long old-school-speak to me. She considers it hilarious that i have my 20 year school reunion while she's in year 8 this year, as i'm SO old, but 'like' young old. None of my 4 will be on FB until their 18, total time waster & here's a thought, a telephone (land line, with a cord & cheaper)!! She does Skype friends who she just saw 30 minutes ago, i don't like it, i like PHONES!! But she Skypes Daddy so that is a double standard - oh yes, she knows the legal like speak too. Argh, good luck, we're all going to need it. Best thing ever is WiFi, so you can disconnect 4 children with one flick of a button, yay!! Love Posie
I am so pleased you are now on FB - so I can "like" you!! Seriously, I love your blog. I have not lived overseas as you have, but have travelled a lot for work (mainly UK, Singpore and Malaysia) - I work in migration. Anyway, the whole expat life fascinates me, but I could never be brave enough to make the move (yet). Thank you for your posts which are awesome!
ReplyDeleteI have an eleven year old little miss and her Ipod Touch is her best friend.....so there :)
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