It's hard to believe but the school year is actually winding down.  I've been using a geography program with my younger two called: "Children Around the World", which was a new program from Winter Promise.  It was supposed to be for younger students and I thought I would really have to "tweak" it to keep my 12 yo's interest.  Not so.  I have no idea how anyone younger than 10 would be able to understand everything!  It really got into the history of various countries [Japan was especially long] and I found myself having to edit what I was reading "on the fly" [so to speak]. 

Each Tuesday night we've tried to have a dinner from the country we've spent the last week studying [the geography weeks run from Wednesday to Wednesday thanks to when I can get to the library to check out the books].  Last night we had a dinner from the African country of Madagascar.  It was pretty good and will probably be something we'll have again.

Today we move back into Asia and start learning about Saudi Arabia.  Finding books on that country has been next to impossible in this area!  I don't know why our library system only has two children's books about S.A. but they are all at the northern-most library [naturally] in our county.  So we're treking north today to find out about the middle east.