Another project that I have for that same organization in England is to have 10 of the kids they sponsor write letters and draw pictures to send to England to be given to their sponsors. Three of the kids were able to write their letters IN ENGLISH (which I think is pretty darn good for kids in 3rd-5th grade). The others are younger, so I just interviewed them. I'll write their letters for them. But, I took pictures of all of them, and they all drew pictures to mail as well. The last things I need to do for that project are print the photos and then mail them off. That can be adventures for next week! I will have to find a photo printing place (my efforts today were futile) and then work my way to a DHL office--I know where it is, I just have to get there.
Today I went with Roberto in search of a place in the neighborhood that could print the photos for me. The first place we stopped only printed in black and white and only printed on paper. I needed them in color, so that place didn't work out. We headed out to another place that printed in color. They, too, only printed on paper, so I was only going to print some of the pictures I needed. However, after messing with the pictures trying to get multiple photos on a page, I had messed up the pictures so bad they were all blurry! Liz McAlpin showed me how to do this same thing back at the start of the school year, but I obviously remembered just enough to really mess things up. Oh, well. I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, but I got to see another part of the area, and I talked with Roberto a bit. Those are good things.
The kids head back to school on Monday--thank God! They've had two weeks off, and they are driving everyone crazy here. It's hard to keep them all entertained; pretty much they pick on each other and tease each other and cause trouble. Pretty typical of most kids, I bet
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