Well, this past week was quite eventful! I finally felt like I could resume our usual schedule of school and every day running around, etc. This would have all gone fairly smoothly if we hadn't had a couple other things thrown into the mix! This week we had to have one of the horses put down, which was such a bummer, because this was the one horse Marina really loved. (Me too) His name was Ice Man and he apparently had cancer, which we didn't know about until the last week of his life. This was one of my nieces horses and she is away at school. We were watching him become sicker and sicker before our eyes and the vets finally came to the understanding that he had cancer. By the time they realized this, he was wasting away and not eating any longer. We couldn't let him go on suffering, my niece decided it was time to say goodbye. He was buried on Friday and on Sunday, Marina bought flowers (3 roses) after church to put on his grave.
Aside from that, the week went pretty good. Marina did very well with school and we are not having any problems to speak of. She is doing remarkably well with her English and has been working not only in text books to learn English, but also on the computer. She is improving very quickly!!! Good for her!!! Some of the things I try to translate for her just so I know she understands what we are learning about - mainly in history, science and bible. The rest of it is no problem for her. She is doing great with spelling, grammar and English. She loves art and we found out today . . . she hates the song "Yankee Doodle"! Hahahaha! Jordan loves the song and since we are learning patriotic songs along with US History, we listened to it twice today until Marina ran out of the room like a mad woman :) She couldn't take it anymore :) It was quite funny. Tomorrow we are going to go see BodyWorlds 3 at the St. Louis Science Center! I am very excited and so are the girls. Marina is a bit concerned that it will be "yucky", but I think it will be fascinating and a great learning opportunity for everyone. We are going with other homeschoolers and I think it will be great. We printed out the education sheets of the website and I translated all of it for Marina so she knows what to expect and can answer some questions about the exhibit and what she learned. If you don't know what BodyWorlds 3 is, go to: http://www.bodyworlds.com/en.html and check it out. I wanted to see this 2 years ago when it was in Chicago and missed it. Now we get to see it here and the best part is, we got FREE tickets!!
Friday we take Marina to the specialist to find out more about her health conditions. We are looking forward to that, since it should shed some more light on the issues and how we can remedy them. I hope and pray for good news. I know God is good and He has a plan for her, so we are not worried.
We got word that one of Marina's friends from the orphanage is coming for a visit this December for a couple of weeks, so she is extremely excited about that!! We will be sure to get together with her while she is here. Marina said she would speak English to her - she must be feeling more confident in her ability now. We also know another friend of hers will be here with a host family too, so we hope to see them all.
She wrote her friend Olga a letter and printed out some pictures for her. We typed it up in English and she said her teacher would read it to Olga and her class and translate it for them. Then she also emailed her friends through the school counselor, who said it would be fine to use his email address since the kids don't have access to email themselves. He in turn sent her some pictures of himself and she enjoyed getting those.
Yesterday, we went to a Thanksgiving Homeschool dinner. The kids did various crafts and we all ate turkey dinner together and I think she had a good time. They surprised her with a "welcome home" gift. It was a pink, leather bound journal, some organizing totes and to her delight . . . another $50 gift card to Target! She is ready to shop, needless to say :) Maybe I can take her to Target after BodyWorlds tomorrow.
Aside from that, the week went pretty good. Marina did very well with school and we are not having any problems to speak of. She is doing remarkably well with her English and has been working not only in text books to learn English, but also on the computer. She is improving very quickly!!! Good for her!!! Some of the things I try to translate for her just so I know she understands what we are learning about - mainly in history, science and bible. The rest of it is no problem for her. She is doing great with spelling, grammar and English. She loves art and we found out today . . . she hates the song "Yankee Doodle"! Hahahaha! Jordan loves the song and since we are learning patriotic songs along with US History, we listened to it twice today until Marina ran out of the room like a mad woman :) She couldn't take it anymore :) It was quite funny. Tomorrow we are going to go see BodyWorlds 3 at the St. Louis Science Center! I am very excited and so are the girls. Marina is a bit concerned that it will be "yucky", but I think it will be fascinating and a great learning opportunity for everyone. We are going with other homeschoolers and I think it will be great. We printed out the education sheets of the website and I translated all of it for Marina so she knows what to expect and can answer some questions about the exhibit and what she learned. If you don't know what BodyWorlds 3 is, go to: http://www.bodyworlds.com/en.html and check it out. I wanted to see this 2 years ago when it was in Chicago and missed it. Now we get to see it here and the best part is, we got FREE tickets!!
Friday we take Marina to the specialist to find out more about her health conditions. We are looking forward to that, since it should shed some more light on the issues and how we can remedy them. I hope and pray for good news. I know God is good and He has a plan for her, so we are not worried.
We got word that one of Marina's friends from the orphanage is coming for a visit this December for a couple of weeks, so she is extremely excited about that!! We will be sure to get together with her while she is here. Marina said she would speak English to her - she must be feeling more confident in her ability now. We also know another friend of hers will be here with a host family too, so we hope to see them all.
She wrote her friend Olga a letter and printed out some pictures for her. We typed it up in English and she said her teacher would read it to Olga and her class and translate it for them. Then she also emailed her friends through the school counselor, who said it would be fine to use his email address since the kids don't have access to email themselves. He in turn sent her some pictures of himself and she enjoyed getting those.
Yesterday, we went to a Thanksgiving Homeschool dinner. The kids did various crafts and we all ate turkey dinner together and I think she had a good time. They surprised her with a "welcome home" gift. It was a pink, leather bound journal, some organizing totes and to her delight . . . another $50 gift card to Target! She is ready to shop, needless to say :) Maybe I can take her to Target after BodyWorlds tomorrow.
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How did the kids like Bodyworlds?
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