This morning, Hamer got up relatively early. I called her once, and she didn’t linger in bed—she got up promptly.
During the day, I continued focusing on GNSS development, mainly working on implementing the new UI design, organizing the logic, and fixing various bugs. The deeper I got, the more I realized how many details needed careful handling. My colleague finished the workspace section today, and another colleague completed the elevation change chart. Practically everyone on the team has been involved in some aspect of this big feature, which makes me both grateful and a bit humbled by the collaborative effort.
In the evening, on the way to go shopping with Hamer, we talked about her day at school. She mentioned that her Chinese teacher had given her a “Good Job Ticket” as a reward. I asked her, “Did you feel sleepy in class today?” She shook her head, saying she didn’t. Then I asked, “So do you think it was worth it to stay up so late working hard on your homework last night?” She looked puzzled and asked, “What does ‘worth it’ mean?” Not sure how to explain it simply, I rephrased, “If you could choose again, would you still stay up late working hard on your homework?” Without a moment’s hesitation, she replied, “Of course! I want to get my homework done.” Her resolute tone filled me with admiration.
We met up with Xiaoyan at Hema, and after finishing our shopping, Xiaoyan took Hamer home while I went back to the office to put in a bit more work. I needed to merge a pending PR and wanted to address some unit conversion and I18N issues on the dashboard. I stayed until about 10 PM before heading home.
When I arrived home, Hamer was already asleep. Xiaoyan told me that earlier, Hamer had said to her, “Our Moral and Society teacher said elementary school students should get 10 hours of sleep every day.” So by 9 PM, Hamer had stopped everything she was doing, including the workbook she was so diligently working on yesterday, went to wash up, and went to bed. Xiaoyan relayed this with a bit of humor, amused by how closely Hamer follows her teacher’s advice and this display of “self-discipline.” Later in the evening, I asked Xiaoyan if she was feeling down, as she’d seemed a bit distracted while shopping, almost lost in thought. She told me she wasn’t exactly unhappy, just a bit disheartened because work hadn’t been going smoothly. She felt that her overseas project wasn’t being given enough attention within the company, and that was starting to make her feel somewhat unappreciated.
There was something I forgot to record yesterday, mainly a conversation Hamer and I had about how to interact with friends and how to view appearance (ideas of beauty and ugliness). These are concepts she’ll need time to understand gradually, and they’re topics I want to keep discussing with her to help her grow and better understand these things.
