esther margaret watches a couple of tv shows, and ni hao kai-lan is not really one of them. but she ends up watching this a couple of times a week, normally because it coincides with a time when i have to take a shower, fold laundry or reply to email.
kai lan is a little chinese girl whose friends include hoho (a tiny monkey), tolee (a koala bear), lulu (a rhinoceros) and rintoo (a tiger). the authority figure is yeh yeh, her grandfather. i find this show confounding for many reasons.
first, where are her parents? yeh yeh puts her to bed so maybe she is an orphan? and why does she not have any human friends? she and yeh yeh are the only humans on the show. they interact with ants, dolphins, even the sun and yet there are no other humans. why.
and why do these other animal children not have parents either? if kai lan goes to see if tolee can come on an adventure, she always finds him in a one room tree house. and tolee is always wearing house shoes and matching hoodie, it makes me crazy. if he had parents, he would not be leaving the house like that. while we're on that note, why does he wear clothes but rintoo and hoho don't?
all of her friends seem to be male except for lulu, the pink rhinoceros who floats around with a red balloon tied to her horn. i guess if she is a tomboy it explains her horrible outfit choices consisting of red high tops, orange and yellow board shorts, an embellished blue muscle tee and an insane traditional chinese hair cut.
i'm pretty sure em will have to stop watching it soon because i almost can't handle it. getting out of the shower one more time and hearing tolee whine or kai lan talk about someone's feelings will take me over the edge.
on a different note, esther the messter, who is super sensitive to insect bites, got a bite right between her eyes last saturday. the top half of her face swelled up so much, she spent the rest of the weekend looking more like her mongolian descendants.
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