• Sep. 21, 2008
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School again. :P All our activities are starting full swing this week so we're back into school. For any of you adults who want to know (I've been asked this a hundred times already by various homeschooling moms, I'm using Teaching Textbooks math, Apologia science, Wordsmith Craftsman English, Latin Primer Latin, and Sonlight Core 7 for history. I like all of it. And I'm in grade 10. XD
Anywayyy...as if any of you would be interested... these are the books I read this summer.
Shakespeare's Scribe, by Gary Blackwood
Shakespeare's Spy, by Gary Blackwood
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Red Velvet, by Sandra Byrd
The Warrior Heir, by Cinda Williams Chima
The Skull of Truth, by Bruce Coville
The Postcard, by Beverly Lewis
The Crossroad, by Beverly Lewis
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
The Moorchild, by Eloise McGraw
The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Redeeming Love, by Francine Rivers
Mystery of the Roman Ransom, by Henry Winterfield
I was hoping to get more done...but whatever. Every Friday evening from 4:30-8:00 Mom, Meg and I are working at GBS. Mom and I work the cash mostly, and tidy up upstairs and help people out. Meagan has been mostly in the basement sorting out toys and stuff. This is my 4th year volunteering at that thrift shop. :) Everyone always asks me if I'm volunteering for my community hours - at the thrift shop and at the retirement home - and then I have to explain that I'm homeschooled and I don't have to do that stuff. :P Needless to say, with volunteering at the thrift shop for going on 4 years and at the retirement home for a year and a half now, I'm sure I've put in more than my share of "community hours"!
This Friday at the thrift shop was seriously the busiest it's ever been while I was working there. There was a bag sale...go figure. Fill a bag for six dollars. Last year when we worked on Saturdays, bag sales weren't that bad because we were usually on the last day of it. But this past time it was the first day of the bag sale. And we had a constant stream of people at the cash register. It was crazy! We had to eat supper in shifts and even then we had to stop half way through to help out at the cash! It was fun though. :) And somehow I found some time to look through the books. Since we started volunteering there this year I've been looking through the books and picking out any good ones. I'm starting my own collection. :) I've found some really really good ones there. It takes a while to look through them all (99% of the books there are crappy romance novels) but it's worth it.
Yay! I'm happy school's in again. I'm having a lot of fun with the thrift shop and I can't wait for these activities coming up, and I don't mind my schoolwork either. Plus, I looooove autumn, it's like my favourite time of year. And the leaves are just starting to change colour.
This picture is from like two years ago...but I still like it. :P Over and out.
Comments
• Oct. 12, 2008
Hey Kristen!!!
Posted by Lotsamilk
I'm finally updating my blog again.. and I hate the layout.. go figure =P
Thats a neat picture!!! I thought meagan and you looked younger In It... hey, your voulenteering? you lucky duck!!!! i've always wanted too - I'm almost positive I'm too "young" for It, though.
yeah, I took some test. apparently to one I express my emotions like no one else, to the other I'm crazy and weird. xD
