Quote for the Day 4/23/1010
During hot lunch today, over pizza provided by Twila--the second time this year--
Twila: It was really windy too the other time I had hot lunch. It almost blew the pepperoni off the pizza. [Only in Kansas!]
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Kelly Y. is getting married tomorrow to a guy from Montana. His family was in the church kitchen this afternoon making preparations for the rehearsal dinner. Every time the kitchen door opened, the wind whooshed in most obnoxiously. I wonder if other Kansans felt the impulse to apologize today as I did. (I resisted it.)
I can imagine that the groom's family feels like they're performing a rescue by taking Kelly back to Montana to live.
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I took advantage of Stutzmans' half price full flat sale and bought some flowers to plant at school. They went into very wet soil, but they looked as sorrowful as I felt as the day wore on and the sun and wind battered them. I hope they recover overnight.
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Arlyn M. did a great job today on his senior challenge. He talked about change, and used lots of meaningful examples, personal experiences, quotes, and Scriptures in the course of leading us to consider resisting change when it's not helpful, or embracing it when it is (or when there's no other option). The one thing that is not helpful is to ignore it.
He recapped his father's "beauty from ashes" life story, enumerating the many changes he faced. Listed briefly, they included: 1) Moving to Missouri from Michigan when he was 18--because his father desired a stricter Amish setting for his family 2) Adjusting to his mother's death shortly after they arrived in MO. Roman was the oldest son and assumed a lot of responsibility in providing for the family of 14 children because of his father's inability to do so. 3) Having his father move the family again--this time to the Chaco in Paraguay while Roman was away in 1W service 4) Following his family later to live in Paraguay, again helping provide for his father and siblings 5) Moving from the Chaco to East Paraguay 6) Carving a farm and home for himself from the jungle 7) Marrying an American nurse who had an adopted Paraguayan son 8) Burying his wife when she died of cancer, after having given birth to a son 9) Caring for two small boys as a single parent 10) Remarrying and having three more children 11) Moving his family to Kansas . Arlyn is the youngest child in the family, having lived in Kansas ever since he was five years old.
Arlyn spoke too of changes in his own life, especially in having chosen to turn from being a rebellious young man to wanting to serve Christ. He noted that he has a friend who has chosen very differently, and Arlyn feels sadness at his friend's choice.
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Heidi and Jacob gave their senior challenge earlier--both of them also very well-prepared and delivered, thought-provoking speeches. I must have been too busy at the time to blog about them, but I am always impressed with what these students are capable of.
Being intentional about teaching organizing and speaking skills pays handsome rewards when students learn from it and use the skills to communicate truth that inspires reflection and positive change.
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We ended the school day with a fun student-planned activity that involved a scavenger hunt of sorts. The organizers had snapped photos of random objects found on the school-church grounds, and then isolated and expanded small sections of the photos. They printed these pictures, and divided all of us into three teams and gave each team a camera. We were to find and photograph as many of the objects as we could, after identifying them from the pictures. We were told only that none of the objects were inside the main building.
It was great--just at the right difficulty level--challenging, but not impossible. No one identified the silver tiger whiskers on a purple background that are part of the K-State "wildcat" plate on my minivan--the plate I removed once and Grant put back on. And no one found the spot on Susanna's car where the paint was chipped off. But we did find the hinge for the flag on the mailbox, and the stamp on the pallet out behind the shop. We also found the tiny grid-patterned reflector on the Nisly trash bin, and the latch on the utility meter. It was amazing how varied the size of the actual objects was, and how hard it was to think of what they might be when 2-inch square objects and four foot tall objects all looked the same size in the picture.
I recommend the game to anyone who needs to plan a fun group activity.
Twila: It was really windy too the other time I had hot lunch. It almost blew the pepperoni off the pizza. [Only in Kansas!]
******************
Kelly Y. is getting married tomorrow to a guy from Montana. His family was in the church kitchen this afternoon making preparations for the rehearsal dinner. Every time the kitchen door opened, the wind whooshed in most obnoxiously. I wonder if other Kansans felt the impulse to apologize today as I did. (I resisted it.)
I can imagine that the groom's family feels like they're performing a rescue by taking Kelly back to Montana to live.
******************
I took advantage of Stutzmans' half price full flat sale and bought some flowers to plant at school. They went into very wet soil, but they looked as sorrowful as I felt as the day wore on and the sun and wind battered them. I hope they recover overnight.
*******************
Arlyn M. did a great job today on his senior challenge. He talked about change, and used lots of meaningful examples, personal experiences, quotes, and Scriptures in the course of leading us to consider resisting change when it's not helpful, or embracing it when it is (or when there's no other option). The one thing that is not helpful is to ignore it.
He recapped his father's "beauty from ashes" life story, enumerating the many changes he faced. Listed briefly, they included: 1) Moving to Missouri from Michigan when he was 18--because his father desired a stricter Amish setting for his family 2) Adjusting to his mother's death shortly after they arrived in MO. Roman was the oldest son and assumed a lot of responsibility in providing for the family of 14 children because of his father's inability to do so. 3) Having his father move the family again--this time to the Chaco in Paraguay while Roman was away in 1W service 4) Following his family later to live in Paraguay, again helping provide for his father and siblings 5) Moving from the Chaco to East Paraguay 6) Carving a farm and home for himself from the jungle 7) Marrying an American nurse who had an adopted Paraguayan son 8) Burying his wife when she died of cancer, after having given birth to a son 9) Caring for two small boys as a single parent 10) Remarrying and having three more children 11) Moving his family to Kansas . Arlyn is the youngest child in the family, having lived in Kansas ever since he was five years old.
Arlyn spoke too of changes in his own life, especially in having chosen to turn from being a rebellious young man to wanting to serve Christ. He noted that he has a friend who has chosen very differently, and Arlyn feels sadness at his friend's choice.
************************
Heidi and Jacob gave their senior challenge earlier--both of them also very well-prepared and delivered, thought-provoking speeches. I must have been too busy at the time to blog about them, but I am always impressed with what these students are capable of.
Being intentional about teaching organizing and speaking skills pays handsome rewards when students learn from it and use the skills to communicate truth that inspires reflection and positive change.
**********************
We ended the school day with a fun student-planned activity that involved a scavenger hunt of sorts. The organizers had snapped photos of random objects found on the school-church grounds, and then isolated and expanded small sections of the photos. They printed these pictures, and divided all of us into three teams and gave each team a camera. We were to find and photograph as many of the objects as we could, after identifying them from the pictures. We were told only that none of the objects were inside the main building.
It was great--just at the right difficulty level--challenging, but not impossible. No one identified the silver tiger whiskers on a purple background that are part of the K-State "wildcat" plate on my minivan--the plate I removed once and Grant put back on. And no one found the spot on Susanna's car where the paint was chipped off. But we did find the hinge for the flag on the mailbox, and the stamp on the pallet out behind the shop. We also found the tiny grid-patterned reflector on the Nisly trash bin, and the latch on the utility meter. It was amazing how varied the size of the actual objects was, and how hard it was to think of what they might be when 2-inch square objects and four foot tall objects all looked the same size in the picture.
I recommend the game to anyone who needs to plan a fun group activity.
posted by Mrs. I at
6:31 PM
2 Comments:
Just a clarifying comment: Jeff is from Montana, I understand his parents reside in Missouri. Jeff and Kelly are planning to live in Montana. -Sherilyn
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Brian, at 4/24/2010
I didn't know that, but several other things I know make more sense now. I had heard Kelly say that Jeff was from Montana and assumed he lived there with his parental family. A comment I heard about "people from Missouri" and the "Beachy" look of his family didn't quite spell "Montana" for me.
By
Mrs. I, at 4/25/2010
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