This morning, Elizabeth, Michael and I went over to the high school (where we’ve been taking showers the last few days). The plan was that Michael (who does track at his school) was going to run with the girls’ cross-country team. Alexa had seen a sign posted at the high school regarding the meet, and we had jokingly mentioned to Michael that he should go join them. He said “ok” without much hesitation. Which is how we ended up getting up at 6 in the morning, armed with cameras, to go watch him run. When we got to the school, we walked around campus for a while, attempting to find the field. Having finally found the field, we were disappointed to discover that the only other person within sight was a janitor taking out the trash. We stood there for a while, and Michael finally ran a lap all by himself around the track while we took pictures. Michael says we’re mean because we took pictures (err…that would be pictures of him stretching, which we find very amusing). Then we went gave up and went and got hot chocolate at a little coffee shop nearby. Don’t worry: we did leave a note for the leaders, so they wouldn’t worry.
After we came back to the church, Michael, Louis, Rachel, and I went jogging around the neighborhood. It was really nice, because it was early enough that it wasn’t boiling hot yet. We plan to make this a daily event. While jogging, we did meet Nick’s doppelganger, which was exciting.
Small secret buddy gifts are supposed to appear today. I’ve spent a lot of time making friendship bracelets, and am about halfway to having one for everyone. Yesterday, we ran a friendship-bracelet-making station for the kids at FIRM, and they mainly strung beads on pipe cleaners instead of actually braiding or twisting yarn. It was nice, though, because we were inside and it was air conditioned.
Last night, Rachel led a waltz lesson as our recreation activity. I am proud to say that everyone is now a competent waltzer. We also polkaed, scottished, and did a Congress of Vienna. Some salsa and freestyle dancing was also thrown in. It was a lot of fun.
Elizabeth and Rachel say hi.
Love, Becca
It’s very hot! Not much else to say but that it's very, very hot. So yeah if the heat does not kill me the bugs will. There are huge here cockroaches and flies! But I am having fun I love the kids and I’m disappointed I did not bring my skateboard because there are a lot of good skate spots down here maybe I’ll come back on different circumstances Much love and peace,
Martin B
5 comments:
Glad you're enjoying yourselves! I hope you've invited everyone to Scottish on Fridays in Berkeley and to Friday-Night-Waltzes-on-Alternate-Saturdays in Oakland. Linda and I watched Aunt Vickie's band at Julie's last night. Hope everyone's evening will be supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Love,
Diane
Hey, if you're able to get up at 6 a.m., Adam's not working you hard enough!!
Kidding . . . .
Michael, you are a very good sport. Didn't anyone warn you about Elizabeth and Becca and Rachel? They're nothing but trouble, I'm telling you!
;)
Oh, and don't let the cockroaches eat Martin . . .
Peace, Julie Llanillo
Julie seems to be implying that Elizabeth, Rachel, and Rebecca uncovered a cauldron when Martin found his spoon.
1 WITCH. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
2 WITCH. Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin'd.
3 WITCH. Harpier cries:—'tis time! 'tis time!
1 WITCH. Round about the caldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.—
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one;
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot!
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
2 WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
3 WITCH. Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;
Witches' mummy; maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark;
Root of hemlock digg'd i the dark;
Liver of blaspheming Jew;
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse;
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips;
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,—
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingrediants of our caldron.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
2 WITCH. Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
I guess it's not that far fetched given the amount of Shakespeare the three of them have logged.
Oh well, it'll give Mike more incentive to practice his cross country when the girls track team is not available.
Martin:
A "monster" cockroach and other new insects have been discovered in the jungles of Borneo, scientists say. The cockroach could be the largest in the world, at 10cm (4 ins) long.
The world's largest cockroad is only about 4 inches long. You should be safe unless you have encountered a mutant strain or if they start coming at you in waves like army ants.
Cockroaches do have a wide range of digestive enzymes as well as bacteria to help digest what they can't on their own.
Cockroaches are omnivorous. They eat anything from dog food to plaster. Internal bacteria help cockroaches digest these unusual meals. If necessary, cockroaches can live for three months without food and one month without water.
I have two suggestions for you if your cockroaches really as a big as you claim, or if large numbers of them are coming at you wearing little napkins tied between their heads and thoraxes.
1) Run, run, as fast as you can,
they can't catch you, your the
Martin man
2) Take your wooden spoon with
you because their bacteria
help them digest cellulose
that sounds totally fun! except for the 6 in the morning part... :-p.!
and yes... most of what you do ends up on film...
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