Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Anzac Day
Happy Anzac Day! Today, as of 14 minutes ago is Anzac Day, a day of recognizing and remembering everyone who fought in any war for Australia and New Zealand. They basically copied Poppie Day that Great Brittain has... But anyway, we decided to drive back to Christchurch tonight so we could enjoy the festivities tomorrow! Hollie and I are going at dawn to a parade with cannons and all kinds of soldiers and neat stuff.. get excited! At this point I'm just really glad to be home. I feel like in many ways I've put some sort of roots here and I longed to be back to normal life and normal time. I will say though, our trip has been awesome.
For some reason I couldn't wrap my brain around the word disguises on my last blog. As I read it just now I was like, oh my goodness, I'm rediculous.. do you ever do that, just think of a word and totally blank how to spell it? well, anyway, I do.. I diagnosed myself with a spelling disorder in my educational psychology class last semester. It's actually the most common of all learning disabilities, like 1 in 3 have it.. I'm pretty sure I do.. haha
We had a car sing-along on the way home, which actually was our second, the first being because both our IPODS were dead. The car sing-alongs actually just consist of Hollie and I singing and Eva and Clara smiling politely. Well, that's how most things work actually, Hollie and I being kinda crazy and the other two just looking and laughing thinking "those crazy Americans." haha
Today was another great day- saw penguins, albatross birds, a cool peninsula and these crazy circular giant rocks on the beach. When we were on the beach Clara took a picture of the pink sky because it was beautiful and the craziest thing happened- the moon turned up in her picture, but you couldn't see it in the sky at all. It reminded me of the great "The moon is round" story that just as the moon is always round God is always present, sometimes only showing part of Himself and sometimes we can't see Him at all, but He's always there, always taking care of us. Also while I was on the beach this cute little girl came up and gave me a feather and told me to keep it. She said she'd think about me when I was gone. It was really cute. I wish I was more like this little girl- I'm sure she found that cool feather and it meant the world to her, but yet she didn't even give a second thought to giving it to me, that meant far more to her. It was such a random act of kindness to a stranger. What would our world be like if we were more like this little girl, so childlike and desiring to share what she has with others?
Happy Anzac Day and Happy early the Queen's Birthday in a few days.
For some reason I couldn't wrap my brain around the word disguises on my last blog. As I read it just now I was like, oh my goodness, I'm rediculous.. do you ever do that, just think of a word and totally blank how to spell it? well, anyway, I do.. I diagnosed myself with a spelling disorder in my educational psychology class last semester. It's actually the most common of all learning disabilities, like 1 in 3 have it.. I'm pretty sure I do.. haha
We had a car sing-along on the way home, which actually was our second, the first being because both our IPODS were dead. The car sing-alongs actually just consist of Hollie and I singing and Eva and Clara smiling politely. Well, that's how most things work actually, Hollie and I being kinda crazy and the other two just looking and laughing thinking "those crazy Americans." haha
Today was another great day- saw penguins, albatross birds, a cool peninsula and these crazy circular giant rocks on the beach. When we were on the beach Clara took a picture of the pink sky because it was beautiful and the craziest thing happened- the moon turned up in her picture, but you couldn't see it in the sky at all. It reminded me of the great "The moon is round" story that just as the moon is always round God is always present, sometimes only showing part of Himself and sometimes we can't see Him at all, but He's always there, always taking care of us. Also while I was on the beach this cute little girl came up and gave me a feather and told me to keep it. She said she'd think about me when I was gone. It was really cute. I wish I was more like this little girl- I'm sure she found that cool feather and it meant the world to her, but yet she didn't even give a second thought to giving it to me, that meant far more to her. It was such a random act of kindness to a stranger. What would our world be like if we were more like this little girl, so childlike and desiring to share what she has with others?
Happy Anzac Day and Happy early the Queen's Birthday in a few days.
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I have 3 statements to make regarding all of your shots to my spelling. I share genes with each of you, so in reality you should blame yourselves about my spelling. Even if it's not genetic is shows your lack of help in my critical stages of study as a child.. how could you really? I thought you loved me...
Second statement- In order to not be charged a RIDICULOUS amount for the picture downloads I have to wait until 12-7 am to download for half price. I fell asleep while waiting and woke up at 5, only to get up, simply because I love ya'll so much, and download the pictures. At 5 in the morning no one should be capable of functioning and although I realized my errors in saying "hollie and I doing blah blah" I was FAR too lazy to go back and correct them, thinking no one would really notice anyway. But oh was I too naive (spell checked that), I should've known my own father, who truly is to blame for not helping me study for spelling tests as a child, would take a shot at a poor helpless child thousands of miles away from the people she loves. But don't feel too bad, we all make mistakes.
Third comment- For everyone's information I DO use spell checker, I always have WORD open. However, if the word rediculous comes up as a word how am I suppose to know that it's still not the word I'm looking for? Talk to Bill Gates about that because it's not my problem or fault.
If anyone has anymore complaints or questions they can be filed in the SASCBMBBWCNHM file (if you don't know what file that is, well...)
Second statement- In order to not be charged a RIDICULOUS amount for the picture downloads I have to wait until 12-7 am to download for half price. I fell asleep while waiting and woke up at 5, only to get up, simply because I love ya'll so much, and download the pictures. At 5 in the morning no one should be capable of functioning and although I realized my errors in saying "hollie and I doing blah blah" I was FAR too lazy to go back and correct them, thinking no one would really notice anyway. But oh was I too naive (spell checked that), I should've known my own father, who truly is to blame for not helping me study for spelling tests as a child, would take a shot at a poor helpless child thousands of miles away from the people she loves. But don't feel too bad, we all make mistakes.
Third comment- For everyone's information I DO use spell checker, I always have WORD open. However, if the word rediculous comes up as a word how am I suppose to know that it's still not the word I'm looking for? Talk to Bill Gates about that because it's not my problem or fault.
If anyone has anymore complaints or questions they can be filed in the SASCBMBBWCNHM file (if you don't know what file that is, well...)
feel the reprimand (i checked Nonnie's spelling for that) dad...And I will have to say, Alan, graduating on time will be a great accomplishment for our family.. and with good grades too! At least Nonnie cares about lonely, little me thousands of miles away...AND at least I'm not supposed to be working right now but instead commenting on blog. I guess those rumors about dad "gaining a few" that I've heard since I left were true.. sad that he misses me so much that he spends all day reading my precious words behind a computer screen. Get some help, Dad. It's OK to admit you have a problem.
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