The new address in the VI
Sorry, I should have posted this a long time ago.
Kathi, Rockwell, Melinda;
4085 La Grande Princesses
Christiansted, USVI, 00820
Posted on 10 December '12 by admin, under St Croix. No Comments.
Happenings in the VI
The kids have been visiting/helping with some rescue horses on the weekends. Here is a good picture of Rockwell getting to ride bareback for the first time. Looks like he is having a good time! No pictures of Melinda this time.
Posted on 9 December '12 by admin, under Activities, kids. No Comments.
Beta Club Update and more.
More good student news. These kids know how to make Dad happy.
The Beta Club induction ceremony was the other night. I attached the certificate that they handed to the students below. One other interesting note.. There where only 5 kids out of the whole freshman class (~120kids?) that received straight A’s.
4 of the 5 where Hannah and her friends she eats lunch with. I think that is cool. (I asked who the 5th person was, and Hannah said she did not know her.. Evidentially the 5th girl is not in the honors classes)
Here is the program for the night.
You have to be a sophmore, junior or senior to be in the NHS.
Posted on 8 December '12 by admin, under school. 2 Comments.
Observations
Hannah and I went to a Christmas party last night. There where a couple other High school age boys there, one of them a exchange student from China. Hannah hung out with them, as she realized they where also fans of “LP”, or “Lets Play”. This was a TIL for me.. LP essentially is a recorded walk-though of a video game with narration. (It’s not quite that simple really.. there is more to it than that) There are a number of youtube channels that have thousands of fans, and that (LP) is ALL these people will do… This is a seachange of entertainment, and its under the radar… I bet you didn’t even know it was a Genre of new fiction, did you. I would guess it almost might fall under Fan Fiction. And if you don’t know what that is, you gotta catch up.
Anyway.. So, you would think that Hannah might be self conscious around boys her age.
Not.
The exchange students Dad had recently sent some Chinese snacks to him. One of the snacks was simply “chicken feet”. Just like we have vacuum packed whatever, these things came in a commercially labeled, vacuum packed foil package. So the mom of the house offered one to the boys and they said “uhuh, no way, I don’t want to try that.” so the mom offered it to Hannah, and Hannah looked a little sideways at it…. and said “Sure!” And proceeded to try it. The adventurous soul she is showed those boys who’s the BOSS.
Anyway, I dedicate this awesome quote to Hannah:
Here is to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes the ones who see things differently -they are not fond of rules- You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can not do is ignore them because they change things, they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. -Steve Jobs
