Monday, August 31, 2015
From Mom: Up studying, leave for boot camp (aka HIT) at 9:00, exercise until 10:30, home, shower, pedicure at 11:30 (toes must look nice - we are going to Mackinac Island this weekend!) Hopefully at 1:00 I will see the penthouse apartment of the Julian, a fantastic apartment complex downtown, then doctor appointment at 2:45, surgery at the Eye Center at 4:30, hair color at 6:00. Then I shall study as late as I can stand it. How is everyone else doing today? Love Mom!
From Charlotte: Greetings family! School has started up again, all to soon I might add. But that's okay! All my teachers are really chill and all of us kids in the IB program have more or less bonded, and go to every class in a large herd. My most recent creative project was crocheting a little yarn whale- which I did, it's fairly adorable- and now I'm onto music notation software so I can put my favorite song onto paper! The Japanese pop song based off of a video game won't know what hit it :3
In orchestra we're playing the Royal Fireworks Overture. I think it's amusing that 500 years ago, they wanted cool music to go along with their fireworks too, and no one had invented the boom box or radio so... Handel!
Question: What is everyone's favorite animal(s)? I don't know these things and it's weird!
In orchestra we're playing the Royal Fireworks Overture. I think it's amusing that 500 years ago, they wanted cool music to go along with their fireworks too, and no one had invented the boom box or radio so... Handel!
Question: What is everyone's favorite animal(s)? I don't know these things and it's weird!
From Celli: Okay, here's the update: Today is my last day in Germany for a couple weeks. Beautiful time...rested my inner introvert (I hermitted here for about 1-week by myself). So little to do that I've become a wicked fast runner, and can blast around the 10km lake near by in, like, no-time-at-all.
Tomorrow an early train takes me from the nearby town of Radolfzell to the Swiss mountain Engelberg (yep, you guessed it 'Angle Mountain') for two days of extreme hiking before back to the US on Monday.
Gotta love these crazy Alpine people...in the US, if you have the good sense to look down from a vast height on a geologically-ephemiral surface like a crumbling-shale-rock (for crying in a bucket), you would have 'a fear of heights' and be considered a fairly reasonable soul as a result. In Switzerland (and Alpine Germany), if you look down from said-crumbling rock and think 'Wow, nice view. I think I see my dad.' then you are called 'Schwindelfrei' (aka, free-of-vertigo) and considered normal. They are nuts!
But on the positive side, if you buck up and think, 'Well hell, this is the scariest crap, I've gotten myself in to yet, but shit, we whooped 'em in WWII, so we can do it again' and you hike those beautiful mountains, then you do get to see amazing things, eat the most ungodly, awesome food (rounds of cheese, piles of chocolate) and pay out your nose for deeming to sleep on what has to be the most expensive soil in the world!
Tomorrow an early train takes me from the nearby town of Radolfzell to the Swiss mountain Engelberg (yep, you guessed it 'Angle Mountain') for two days of extreme hiking before back to the US on Monday.
Gotta love these crazy Alpine people...in the US, if you have the good sense to look down from a vast height on a geologically-ephemiral surface like a crumbling-shale-rock (for crying in a bucket), you would have 'a fear of heights' and be considered a fairly reasonable soul as a result. In Switzerland (and Alpine Germany), if you look down from said-crumbling rock and think 'Wow, nice view. I think I see my dad.' then you are called 'Schwindelfrei' (aka, free-of-vertigo) and considered normal. They are nuts!
But on the positive side, if you buck up and think, 'Well hell, this is the scariest crap, I've gotten myself in to yet, but shit, we whooped 'em in WWII, so we can do it again' and you hike those beautiful mountains, then you do get to see amazing things, eat the most ungodly, awesome food (rounds of cheese, piles of chocolate) and pay out your nose for deeming to sleep on what has to be the most expensive soil in the world!
From Mom: Happy Sunday to all of you!
My paper submitted Friday and out of the way (with the editing brilliance of Julie and the comfort of my brother) I have moved on to the five books, and three other projects that must be finished prior to flying to Boston again on September 16....dear GOD is that only 16 days away!?!?!?!
Charlotte began making the family meals last week with a tomatillo salsa and today has a delicious smelling beef brisket in the oven, baking slowly at 325 degrees.Yay! Home cooked meals while I cannot spare the time! It is a beautiful day in C-bus - headed out for a bike ride in a few.
Love you all TOOOOO much!
mom
My paper submitted Friday and out of the way (with the editing brilliance of Julie and the comfort of my brother) I have moved on to the five books, and three other projects that must be finished prior to flying to Boston again on September 16....dear GOD is that only 16 days away!?!?!?!
Charlotte began making the family meals last week with a tomatillo salsa and today has a delicious smelling beef brisket in the oven, baking slowly at 325 degrees.Yay! Home cooked meals while I cannot spare the time! It is a beautiful day in C-bus - headed out for a bike ride in a few.
Love you all TOOOOO much!
mom
Friday, August 28, 2015
Ok to post a new blog, click on the following link: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4950988483024129463#overview. You'll need to login with the emails I sent the initial request to (should be in your email inbox... along with blogging instructions, actually!) Click 'New Post.' Type. Upload pictures. Go crazy! When finished hit 'Publish'. Easy.
You know you're getting old when you're PSYCHED that the sushi restaurant thought your ID was fake.
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
strait
strāt/
1. a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two large areas of water.
Whether we are in Brazil/Italia/D.C., Yale/Bavaria/India, the American Southwest/Chamonix/Yosemite, China/Israel, Columbus/Alaska, Montana/New York, the youngest jetting to the finest locations and cultural events, or the surgical glue that forged this world from brilliance and love, we can still be together. We're all bodies of water, constantly shifting. Let's form a strait between us.
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