“Take time to stop and smell the roses,” to me means to pay attention to and enjoy the little, everyday things of life. So here are a few of those that have happened in the past weeks, for you to enjoy, and for our family to remember. Continue reading “A few roses to stop and smell”
My Last Week of School
Dear Friends and Family,
NOTICE: This is the last weekly e-mail you will get from me until I get back from China (I think) because I am going to get my own blog page where I can easily upload pictures, so you get to visit that once a week and read my post. However, I know that the internet is a little weird in China because the government messes with it, so if for some reason I can not access my blog in China, or you can not access it or something, I will go back to weekly e-mails. We will figure all that out when the time comes, but just don’t be alarmed if you don’t get anymore e-mails from me. I will let everyone know the web address of my blog once I get it (probably sometime this week).
Back to the main message. Yeah! Continue reading “My Last Week of School”
Your daugher might be an accountant or a nurse…
Our’s drives a backhoe. We’re so proud of her!
In the fall she begins a new career teaching at a private school, so this is a woman of diverse skills. Wait till the little boys in her class find out what she used to do! 🙂
1st graders in the kitchen
What happens when you give a bunch of kids in the kitchen some broccoli, Playdoh and brightly colored paint? How about … sea slugs! In this image by David Doubilet, you have to ask your self what exactly you’re looking at. Is that branchie looking thing in the back a tail, or lungs? Actually, kids aren’t likely to create anything this beautiful, and neither is Lady Random Chance, in my view. To see these guys in all their glory, along with lots of their friends, check out this National Geographic gallery.
A New Experience
Dear friends and family,
Sorry about the delay, I’ve been filming a movie. Really. My Chinese class is making a short movie for the Asian Festival next Saturday, and we were filming most of today, from about 10 am -3pm. And then yesterday, I spent 13 hours at Continue reading “A New Experience”
Ticking on towards summer
Ok, here’s me catching up on posting my updates, this is last week, so you’ve probably already read it in an e-mail
Dear Friends and Family,
Yes, I believe I got a little more sleep this week, thank you very much. I had a Chinese oral presentation Monday and an Arabic quiz Friday, but that was the extent of my difficulties this week. Next week I have another psych midterm, but it shouldn’t be too hard. I’m also busy with the never ending task of applying for scholarships, which even though I don’t get most of them, it is good writing experience.
Really the only exciting thing that happened this week Continue reading “Ticking on towards summer”
Danger & Heartache in China
In a few weeks the latest “Indiana Jones” movie will open at theaters. One of my memories of that series is the big, round boulders that keep careening out of some passageway at the hero, along with his nick-of-time escapes from being crushed. But how about boulders the size of the kitchen table, or your car, coming at you in real life?! Our cousin, John Graham, was in south central China the afternoon of the 7.9 earthquake, and he has an amazing story to tell: Continue reading “Danger & Heartache in China”
Renaissance Fair
Lydia has had a very busy week (as you will see), so she asked me to post this for her:
Dear Friends and Family,
Wow, sooo, I have two weeks to catch up on don’t I? We’ll I’ll try to hit the highlights. So two weeks ago, I was formally initiated into the Mirrors Sophomore Class Honorary, an honorary that I had applied for in February and had done an interview for as well. Every year a group of 40 students are selected by the current Mirrors members to be the next ‘generation’ I specifically wanted to get into this honorary because their main service project is volunteering for the St. James Cancer Hospital. I want to get involved in service to cancer patients since my grandmother on my mother’s side died of cancer.
Last Wednesday I received a letter of congratulations from the East Asian Studies Center at OSU. I had won Continue reading “Renaissance Fair”
News and Daffodils
Our daughter Lydia has been gone on several rugby trips recently, and hasn’t had time to post her latest missives. Here are two of them. First, however, some of my grandmother’s beautiful flowers, which are the part of her legacy to us which is renewed each spring:
(click on the thumbnail for the whole picture)
[never posted Lydia’s letters- out of date now]
Spring at OSU
Here’s some pictures from around campus. I am very glad I came to OSU, among other reasons, because of how beautiful it is in the spring. These first three pictures are 1) a picture of the sunrise from my window, I’m looking across the courtyard of my dorm complex and seeing the sun peak over part of the dorm building. 2) the sunset beside the main library, which is currently being renovated. 3) the oval (big green open space in the center of osu campus) around noon-time, full of students catching some sunshine and relaxing. The rest are self explanatory. Enjoy! Continue reading “Spring at OSU”