Then we went to hot shops and tried to eat our own weight in panda sundaes. We did math with an abacus and memorized how much pandas weighed and how much bamboo they ate each day. We traced our hands on our lunch bags and compared their size to giant panda paws. We got red Chinese flags and practiced calligraphy with fat black paintbrushes. This city has been hoping for a baby panda since Nixon was president, and since he's too small to visit in person, we need to see that he's OK.ĮISELE: When the first pandas came to America in 1972, they came to Washington and school kids around my city went nuts. And like much of my city, I am mesmerized watching him on my computer on panda cam.ĮISELE: We've waited 33 years for that squeal here in Washington, a squeal it is, yes, hard to hear because it's over the computer. After so much waiting, he's finally arrived and I can't stop staring. It's the first time he scratched his nose, the first time he stretched his legs, the first time he rolled over. I wasn't in the club before, but now I'm up late and I'm not sleeping and I'm watching him do everything for the first time.
NPR producer Kitty Eisele knows this feeling. You know, when you become a new parent, you might spend hours gazing at your newborn, marveling as the baby sleeps, stretches or even yawns.
0 kommentar(er)
