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Sep. 23, 2006
Updates...
I can't believe it has been two weeks since my last post. Life has been in full swing lately.
RGRC update: We are finishing our third full week of study groups, preparing for our African Bonfire, and enjoying African music and food! The kids can't get over how 'happy' the music on African radio is. We talked about the fact that none of us speak any of the languages so we have no idea what the lyrics are saying, but the music and voices are beautiful and seem very happy.
Here is a tiny taste of what we have been doing. We have eaten lamb roasted over an open fire, lentils and rice, chin-chin (like a cinamon donought), pumkin soup, fried yamballs, and M'Hanncha (an almond and filo dough pastry). We have made mummies, masks, shield, spears, African jewlery and tunics. We have researched and written reports on tse-tse flies, cheetahs, the Sahara, Egypt, mummification, apartied, Cleopatra, Augustine, Stanley, Livingston, and Victoria Falls to name just a few. We have read and acted out African Fairytales, read Heart of Darkness, and seen three movies about different time periods in Africa. The boys just started building a hut and market place outside for us to have the bonfire around.
Family update: Kayleigh is adjusting very well to NYC. She already has a new job in addition to the one she had upon arriving. She now teaches dance and gymnastics to children after school. She is making great money (even by NYC standards) and after three months will get a huge raise and health insurance. Not bad for being in the 'big city' for three weeks.
Athena has taken a trip to Chicago to see the King Tut exibit. She also has two trips to Florida, one to Ohio, and one to New York planned before Christmas. Some college related, some family related, some dance related, but most contain elements of all three.
Nathan is doing well at the local Youth Performing Arts School. I just went to a performance of his last night. I have to say though, if this wasn't what he really, really wanted I would be crankier during this transistion phase. He is tired and snappy most of the time. He is not used to the early morning, sitting still, or 2-3 hours of homework each night. Everything is getting done, he is just moodier about it.
Dirk has been fighting thyroid issues and an infection for the last month. He just needs lots of prayers.
Reading update: Besides reading Heart of Darkness with the 9th and 10th grade boys, I have been reading Nurishing Traditions and trying to put the food philosophies into practice. I have read Fearless Girls, Wise Women and Beloved Sister with one book club, Marley and Me with another and Gilamesh with the reading partners online.
Now that things have settled down a bit, I am carving out time for the two things I have seriously neglected the last two weeks! Blogging and Exercising!!!
I hope this finds you all well!
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Sep. 23, 2006 - Sandie...
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