A Very Calm Two Weeks

Happy late blog post, everybody! Sorry for the delay; we had some technical difficulties. Hope you've had a great two weeks! Although the astronauts and I have been hard at work, we've had a pretty calm time of things. Some weeks are full of events and special projects, while others are quiet and uneventful - and these last two weeks were some of the latter. We did do a few exciting things though.

 

 

Our school had a yard sale during Columbus Day Weekend, and to promote the sale in the local community, the astronauts and I went up and down Cleveland Street, delivering flyers to every doorknob or mailbox handle in sight. They had a lot of fun walking up to each house! I've found if I take several pictures or videos of one event, Google will sometimes make a fun little movie about what happened. Behold:

Are they not adorable? It must have worked, too, because our school made over $500 at the sale! Much thanks to Pastors Brenda and Phil, as well as the Saco Faith Chapel SDA Church - we couldn't have done it without you!

We've almost reached the end of the first quarter of school, meaning we're just about done with our study on ecosystems. To learn about water in desert ecosystems, the astronauts observed and crunched apart some succulent stems to see how the plants store water over time. That they got to destroy something was probably their favorite part of this lesson.

 

However, the most exciting part of the past two weeks - and the astronauts will heartily agree - has been starting ukulele! The new musicians are catching on very quickly, and the old ones have been a great help in making sure their peers know what to do.

 

 

Within one day, we were playing a song using only the C chord. As you can hear in the following video, it wasn't stellar.

 

However, here they are just one practice later - can you hear the difference?

 

We hope to learn the G chord within the next week, and move on to F shortly after that. You'll notice that Astronaut J.A. has bongos in place of a ukulele and is doing a fantastic job of keeping rhythm! It's great to have some percussion in our chorus.

 

Well, that's all for now, folks! Next blog post will be quite a bit longer due to some exciting events that have taken place already and will take place in he near future. Tune in on November 2 for the next post, as well as our Month in Review video! I leave you with another little Google gem I found while retrieving this week's images from my Drive. While preparing for the community tree meeting, the astronauts and I attempted to make an interview video about trees and their importance. It didn't end up working out, as some projects go, but I thought the compilation Google put together was pretty cute! You can't hear what they're saying, but you can tell they're having fun saying it.

  

 

 Thanks for reading, and have a great end of October!

 

 

God bless,

Mia