tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83568556502439641242024-02-07T02:47:50.010-08:00GiftsJuliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-25769015356635411902018-04-10T07:40:00.001-07:002018-04-10T08:52:28.886-07:00<br />
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<u><b>Encyclopedia of Me A - D</b></u><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Idea from pamlingelbach –SOL 30th March 2018</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">From the alphabets I selected the first word that I felt connected to. Those</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">are the words I used for my Encyclopedia.</span><br />
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<b>Appreciative</b>- Experiences help us appreciate what and who we are or what and who<br />
we have become. I could go on and on. Appreciating what we have, especially when<br />
you have had to toil or sacrifice for what we have, makes me think we have to live a<br />
life of being appreciative. This is the case especially when we have good health, as it<br />
is when we are unwell that we unable achieve.<br />
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<b>Balance</b>- Finding time for work, family friends and leisure has to be intentional and well<br />
managed otherwise one of them will take over the other. We need balance in our lives<br />
but as a working parent and wife this is sometimes difficult to manage.<br />
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<b>Culture</b>-I believe culture is very important. I like what culture makes you. The sense of<br />
belonging provides some security. The identification part of it, and how culture sometimes<br />
makes you unique because you belong to a particular group.<br />
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<b>Dancing</b>- I used to be a great dancer, when my knee was young and fit. I enjoyed dancing<br />
and reminisce about times I used to dance all night long. I miss those times. I have this<br />
confession of how in the past, enjoying dancing so much, I wished parties would go on<br />
forever. I now savor the few opportunities I get to indulge in dance.<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">My Encyclopedia continues next Tuesday.</span><br />
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Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-951150574444273022018-04-03T15:08:00.001-07:002018-04-03T16:26:57.603-07:00A Distant Role Model<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1TatkiU69-U-iC6I4-LgRqQrz4oySmxMv8_TL7RiFspUKbJhUNmYlv9XoVd-JnQQ5SZa-92Ssf7rYMdZGEThWLfEtEawi_EI-2Xhu0DJ4wDVtabKp0nAyT-P6ugtfvhuqAh9VB_EifxFK/s1600/screen-shot-2017-12-02-at-6-09-23-am-1.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1TatkiU69-U-iC6I4-LgRqQrz4oySmxMv8_TL7RiFspUKbJhUNmYlv9XoVd-JnQQ5SZa-92Ssf7rYMdZGEThWLfEtEawi_EI-2Xhu0DJ4wDVtabKp0nAyT-P6ugtfvhuqAh9VB_EifxFK/s400/screen-shot-2017-12-02-at-6-09-23-am-1.png" /></a><br />
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<u>A Distant Role Model</u><br />
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As I was growing up in Ghana, West Africa in the 1970s, we were bombarded<br />
with the name Nelson Mandela. To us he was a giant, a colossal figure, who was<br />
to redeem his people in South Africa. All we knew was that he was in jail and had<br />
been since the early 1960s. For all of my elementary and high school years<br />
Nelson Mandela had been in jail.<br />
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The only way we were connected to him and we felt a need to, was by seeking<br />
information about his beautiful, strong and endearing wife, Winnie Mandela. She<br />
was amazing, confident and a stalwart. Our mothers must definitely have been<br />
influenced by her.<br />
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A role model for African women at the time. Showing us that we also could! In<br />
Ghana we have many strong women. One woman we learned about at school is<br />
Yaa Asantewaa an Ashanti Queen mother turned warrior. In 1900 she fought for<br />
the rights of her people. She was a great patriarch and so I believe was<br />
Winnie Madikizela Mandela.Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-78754572930022189212018-03-31T03:49:00.001-07:002018-03-31T03:54:23.558-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 39.75pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<b><u>Slicing</u></b><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 39.75pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My second Slice of Life Challenge has taught me:</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 39.75pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to persevere, write daily </span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 39.75pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to prioritize and commit to writing </span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 39.75pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to develop myself as a writer and writing teacher</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 39.75pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to respect others' words and learn from them</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 39.75pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to give thoughtful and useful feedback</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 39.75pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">not to give up</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 39.75pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to choose carefully, thinking about my audience</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 39.75pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to be creative with words and ideas</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 39.75pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to think deeply about what and how I write</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Comfortaa; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 39.75pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to use the feedback I receive</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and be thankful! </span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 39.75pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Thank you to the organizers and fellow slicers for this opportunity. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This is definitely one </span><span style="font-family: comfortaa; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre;">of the highlights of my year. </span></div>
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Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-22851961552907898342018-03-30T12:39:00.001-07:002018-03-30T16:41:28.322-07:00<br />
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Memories<br />
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<b><u>Mama's Pancakes</u></b><br />
Mama's pancakes were very special. How she shared them is a<br />
memory that has stayed with me for many years. Hot and perfect<br />
with a nice combination of sugar and salt, there was a special<br />
ingredient at the time that made it distinctive.<br />
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At home today 'the pancake event' is still one of the best times we<br />
bond as a family. Whilst I fry, their plates queue up, the nutmeg laced<br />
pancakes are eaten until all the frying is done. There is definitely an<br />
order to it.<br />
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The topping that won then and now is creamy and sweet, condensed<br />
milk. It is interesting how tastes transfer through the generations and<br />
history repeats itself. Interestingly the same topping has won, today.<br />
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<br />Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-72100170579252349412018-03-29T14:20:00.002-07:002018-03-29T14:54:50.396-07:00<br />
Memories<br />
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<i>I got the idea of 'Writing without sight', from Dana Murphy's post on</i><br />
<i>the 12th of March 2015 - Two Writing Teachers website. I decided</i><br />
<i>to create one.</i><br />
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<b><u>Vera's Student-Led Conference</u></b><br />
<br />
The creaky door slowly closes, I hear foot steps, chairs are dragged<br />
making a scrapping sound. I hear dad's voice, mum asking questions.<br />
Vera is speaking fast. It sounds like French. Of course it it is French.<br />
Sheets shuffle and Vera carries on rattling in French. Laughter, lots of<br />
laughter. this is a happy family. I hear the chair creak. I am sure they are<br />
almost done. Footsteps come towards me.<br />
"Ms. Juliette can I please take the paper from here," Vera asks.<br />
<br />
I respond very quietly, not wanting to disturb the other presenter I can hear.<br />
The door closes, I overhear faint sounds, chairs grind and squeak at the same<br />
time. I know a new family has just entered. A little whiff of air comes towards<br />
me, it must be Vera holding the large sheet of the Biome game they created in<br />
class. I hear tapping sounds, they definitely are playing the game. More laughter<br />
and a thump.<br />
"I won!" a male voice croaks.<br />
<br />
The light sweep of air passes by me, Vera must be taking the game back to the<br />
carpet. The other student is talking, excitedly. I hear light hums and dad<br />
asking questions.The chairs drag on the floor, I suppose Vera's family are<br />
leaving. "Goodbye, Ms. Juliette." "Thank you, Ms. Juliette."<br />
I wave gently. One family over, nineteen more to go.Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-36444775603887581832018-03-28T10:15:00.003-07:002018-03-28T10:22:11.030-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Our Three Dogs</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Chupi, a shih tzu’s family traveled to Australia. They had</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">been </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">given Chupi by a French family. There was no home</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">for </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">him. I gladly volunteered to take care of Chupi. An</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">interesting, fluffy, indoor dog that had been brought up</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">outdoors. Chupi stays in the garden, roams, sleeps in his</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">he waits patiently for us. His ritual of coming to my car</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa";"><span style="white-space: pre;">were away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fifi a half German shepherd, half great dane, became a</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">beautiful girl with a velvety grey coat. Fifi having stayed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "indie flower"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Sitting beside the large window in the cool antique looking room where</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "indie flower"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the dark wooden furniture had been chiseled into beautiful carved</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "indie flower"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The art work around had images that reminded me of the past,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "indie flower"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">they were just like photographs shared on pages of historical books.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "indie flower"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This must have been the environment they wanted to create, It felt right.</span></div>
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Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-15302315104514116772018-03-25T12:59:00.000-07:002018-03-30T16:44:18.213-07:00<br />
Memories<br />
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<u><b>A Different Kind of Art</b></u><br />
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Long and dainty, it swayed with every movement. Indeed it's hem was<br />
like a beautifully painted shimmery garden, with silver flowers holding<br />
on to the net which was the border.<br />
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The long dress was regal. It's black net background made it very serene.<br />
The hanging metallic flowers attached sparingly, scattered on the net.<br />
This made it simple but elegant. With a round understated neckline, it<br />
called for an exquisite piece of jewelry.<br />
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The sleeve touched the wrist loosely and flared out gracefully. A thoughtful<br />
designer made sure the sleeve related perfectly with the body, so the cut<br />
flower appliques found in the hem were introduced at the edge of the sleeve.<br />
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Flattering and loose this piece of art was worn with a beautiful choker and<br />
bracelet that matched the color.<br />
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This was my outfit for dinner last night. A piece I cherish.<br />
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<br />Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-36509474979983905202018-03-24T11:02:00.000-07:002018-03-24T11:04:35.586-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">Memories</span><br />
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">Here Comes The Rain</span></u><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Stepping out of the door, this morning, I was met with the cool, fresh smell of nature, scattered leaves, dampness and a brisk breeze. This reminded me of the mild rain that fell last night. I wondered if it came announcing the arrival of the rainy season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The season that brings us an abundance of different succulent fruits; mangoes, pineapples and watermelons. Vegetables like</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">corn appear everywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is an exciting time of the year, as there is the feeling of comfort that spreads around us. It is also the season that brings growth and joy to people and plants alike. Welcome rain.</span>Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-91857677196237127552018-03-23T14:36:00.000-07:002018-03-24T10:24:45.721-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This is my ten line 'two word per line' poem.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I asked my students to write these poems as a</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">reflection of their research. They had sketch noted their</span><br />
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre;">of their </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre;">topic. I decided to do the same after an evening out</span></div>
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<br />Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-12886917254292962722018-03-22T13:55:00.001-07:002018-03-23T04:58:56.795-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bright colors, patterns, raised mish-mash and </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">some beauty. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">That is what Esi (my daughter) and I had been </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">working on for over</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">two weeks. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The preparation for our school’s Maker Faire was </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">hectic. The day</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">crept upon us suddenly. Due to the efficient preparation, it all went</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">as expected.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><img height="239" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/jSH4_tNX133KUR7685kV66kdWcKVB2Vc6lGZd6cLCbHPg4OciAck0ZLZoA_lQJ3aCSg10dByBH4sooLfT7nETpyPL7xXynWcjOUxPYMsNlD6yLquLtL_44zC95Dc38l7wC8FLlNU" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="239" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Preparing to layer and tie</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">As observers, my students and I learned about many different objects</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and ideas. </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">From sweet and drink dispensers, remote control figurines,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">invented </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">computer games on arcade like stands, kombucha tea served</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">in </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">tiny origami </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">cups made by visitors on site, different weaving</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">stations, </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">a variety of </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">circuits and the clumsy skipper. We were unable</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">to visit </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">many </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">stands. There </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">were many more </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">later on in the morning.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">What could it be used for? Many possibilities were received at our stall.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Table mat, floor mat, bed spread, to be framed. The possibilities were</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">endless. This would depend on the user, of course.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">our magnificent inventions) </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">were elated by </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the frenzied experience in</span><br />
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Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-11674634878033295742018-03-21T07:16:00.000-07:002018-03-21T08:59:30.215-07:00<b id="docs-internal-guid-9b7d7e80-4946-3695-fb9e-b8965d89ccb1" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Life gives you many wonderful gifts. One big gift is the</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">friends you encounter whilst taking this ride. We have</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">different groups of friends. We have friends from</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">school, boarding school, high school, family friends, those</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">from work, old and young.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The friends I bonded with the most were those from my</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">boarding school. I was only eleven when I made my life long</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">friends. Many decades later, my classmates both male and</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">female have become more like brothers and sisters. We all</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">share each other’s successes and sorrows. It is however</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">interesting the mini- groups that are formed within this wide</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">circle of friends.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Within the smaller circle are friends you share more intimate</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">conversations with. We've grown up together sharing our</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">families and sometimes our professions. When we meet we</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">enjoy ourselves so much we forget we are decades older and</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">not teenagers. We reminisce and know we have many more</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">we can never forget. The importance </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of this close relationship</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">encourages me to hold on </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">to the handles </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">and not let go, as the ride,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">though moving fast </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">with some bumpy </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">roads is nowhere near over.</span></div>
<br />Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-53116190788539177612018-03-20T07:36:00.004-07:002018-03-21T06:38:01.133-07:00Memories<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Everyday there is chaos</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writing poetry from different perspectives, the seller, buyer and </span></div>
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<u><b>To The Market</b></u><br />
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I paced up and down the stairs, wondering if there was something I had to take<br />
with me. I touched my head thinking, "What else do I need.?' I knew there was<br />
something I had to hold. I imagined being at the market and this helped me<br />
remember my shopping bag. I had to hake my reusable shopping bag. As I always<br />
complained about the plastic bags strewn all around the town, I did not want to be<br />
part of the menace.<br />
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I had not been to Makola with nothing in my hands. I got a piece of paper to write<br />
a list, thinking that would help me remember. I wrote down, "cloth or Kwame's<br />
teacher, comb for me, slippers for Ama and Akua. I shouted for Ama, Auntie Sue<br />
will be here soon."<br />
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Waiting impatiently for Sue, outside the warm drops of rain seemed to have stopped,<br />
for a while. I thought how lucky we were as it had rained heavily all night. The<br />
tropical rain falls in sheets and leaves puddles of water on the muddy, mushy floor.<br />
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Sue turned up late, apologizing, Ama and I were ready with our sneakers on to face<br />
the squishy floor of Makola market. As the rain had stopped, there was no need for<br />
any shade in the form of a colorful-topped umbrellas that usually got in the way of<br />
the crowded, congested, overflowing market in Accra.<br />
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The ride to the market was always tiresome, lots of cars and pedestrians. Many<br />
hawkers had spilt out onto the pavements and sometimes took parts of the road,<br />
causing so much traffic. When they were evacuated they found their way back<br />
there. So much indiscipline, I thought, but they felt it was their right to make a<br />
living anywhere they had leg room.<br />
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You could tell we were almost there by the many sounds and smells. Sounds of<br />
different sellers calling out their wares in many different languages and pitches.<br />
The smells and whiffs of different spicy dishes mixed with the smell of heat!<br />
Yes we were almost there, the collection of exotic fruits welcomed us, the bells<br />
of cyclists crossing the cars received us. We had surely reached our destination.<br />
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<br />Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-78721404093206405342018-03-18T04:58:00.002-07:002018-03-18T06:16:53.814-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Nature takes us places</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It brings us memories</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It can be soothing and calm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It does not judge</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">But can be wild and unkempt</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">After all that is what it is</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Struggling to find a topic for my slice today. I</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">remembered a</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">plant my sister gave to me a while ago.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><img height="254" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wbHhkC5XrkQwflMfq5wv8EPuxEIQyeDx-ZnxeS_IUQsx1JthYmK1nRc0PL4_YXl5LgBig9d9ynFdHwJuRsiBe2Mctl9r8iprpx8tgxCkD8w2iVtxjJnk96UWTCgDdVB8NU70WrsC" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="191" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This (gift) cactus is significant because of its shape, size</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and tenacity. </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The shape represents a deep friendship</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">and bond </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "bitter"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">we share. </span></div>
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<br />Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-11052574039053110722018-03-17T07:38:00.001-07:002018-03-17T07:47:41.113-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><img height="144" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/MlHzDc-e1yIbYChOhqZPoRGzx7bAscUm500prZEk29QXvPxNlJNS2pPcGelE-frib--ogIIWsw9oFhziYbcelgd1MpWlyaKTXO0U0URV4h2kyjglOiEF9vIT-r7PtRQ3FHvkdAiX" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="150" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rain</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The wild winds throwing the trees side to side, dust rising</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">from the </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">ground like smoke. The loud sound of banging </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">doors</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">and leaves </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">crushing against each other. The cool </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">scent of dirt,</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">fresh dirt, quietly enters our rooms.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Suddenly darkness is all around us, as if it was dusk, the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">clouds’ </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre;">deep shades of grey, threatening us. A feeling of cosiness</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre;">and yet </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">worry as the extent of the rain, no one </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">could ever tell. No warnings </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">but the arrival of the rainy </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">season.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We call out to each other, run indoors and make sure all </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">doors </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">are closed. A few minutes later, the rain starts pouring in </span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">sheets, the </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">loud beating of the wide drops </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">on the roof mellows</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">us. Everyone </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">stops and hopes the </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">rains subside. The rains we</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">have been waiting </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">for, for </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">days, now seems unwelcome. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The young ones are excited as we can hide in our caves,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">under </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">tables and behind curtains, without being shouted at. </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">adults are </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">too busy making sure there are no leaks anywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Then we see a snake of water, gliding down the wall in the</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">sitting </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">room, then another and more. Suddenly there is a curtain</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">of </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">rain at </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the side of the opposite wall. All the</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> buckets and rugs</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">cannot </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">contain the water. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“What a shame,” I say, as we all have to help hold the water</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">somehow. </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre;">A sudden end to our adventure that never truly began.</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre;">Hopefully this </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; white-space: pre;">will all be fixed before we are blessed with more rain.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Settling them gently to sleep we arranged then horizontally so they</span><br />
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">would </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">be hot too. We covered them with a thin muslin cloth we had found</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">lying on </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">shed floor. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">It was not long enough as the edges seemed to have </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">been torn </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">uncaringly, </span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">making parts of it fray. It looked like it had been </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">used and </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">not cared for.</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">This cloth we found must have been white one </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">day but </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">today it looked a</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">nice light shade of brown. It did the job, they </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">were all </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">covered. Sheltered</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">from the scorching sun. If we were warm </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">they must </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">have felt it too. We</span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">were the only family they had, so we were </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">obliged to </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">take care of them. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Whilst they slept peacefully we decided to lay the table. We had many</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">colored crockery. How were we going to combine them to create a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">coordinated and appealing table? They would not be asleep for too long.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We had to work very quickly. Ros went searching for what we could put on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the plates, I stayed behind to mix and match the tableware. They’d have to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">work, I thought, that’s all we’ve got. Maybe this is what we can put on our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">wish list for Christmas.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">After a few minutes Ros came back carrying a bunch of leaves. It was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">going to be salad for dinner. We prepared the meal together hoping to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">combine them well enough so they looked attractive. Ros loved what she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">was doing. I heard her humming to herself, I did not dare interrupt. After all,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">she had gone to the market, how would I criticize what see bought. Oh! this</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">They’d wake up ready for their meal. I hope they would not be disappointed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">as there was no meat or chicken to go with it. That is when I decided to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">make a dressing, a salad dressing. That would be easy, a little water, some</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">oil and anything else that I could add that will not be missed. I had to go to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the kitchen and hope no one saw me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Ros I will be back soon,” I shouted.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Skipping through the front room, I opened the creaky door. That is when I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">saw Mama. My plan could obviously not be executed. I went to the sink,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">washed my grubby hands, quickly thought of a different plan and decided to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">drink some cold water. After all it was a very sticky afternoon. As I opened</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the fridge I noticed some ketchup. I quickly poured a little into my plastic</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">cup. As it was opaque Mama did not notice. I run quickly out of the kitchen</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> “Ros I coming.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">When I got back Ros had woken them up and sat them all around the table.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I quickly prepared my concoction and set it beside the salad. It was time for</span><br />
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Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-69525454149019357102018-03-15T13:31:00.000-07:002018-03-15T14:48:16.481-07:00<br />
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<b><u>Storytime With Grandma</u></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Haiku</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Grandma sang and tapped</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>A long Ananse story</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Storytime was great</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We really enjoyed storytime with Grandma. She lined us up, sat us down on the rough cemented floor, legs outstretched. With the lights really dim and the full moon staring at us, she brushed our outstretched legs with a sweeping movement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She would chant,"Pemp naa"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We would all respond, "Nana."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That was the beginning of another enticing story of Kwaku Ananse the trickster. There was always a lesson from her stories. Through the stories Grandma advised, disciplined and set us off to face the world. I am so glad I enjoyed Grandma Alice's stories. I now know that some of her stories about Kweku Ananse were made up because I have never heard anyone tell them. Grandma was wise she got our attention through storytelling. </span></div>
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Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-27545721364576289212018-03-14T03:53:00.001-07:002018-03-14T04:07:16.293-07:00<b id="docs-internal-guid-9b7d7e80-2425-ba84-caf9-738d322f5989" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><img height="144" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/J2C9re0lS-hwE4B0RXDQ1_DzlLOIeE3WtwWAAP3Gg3i3S--J99FL96_MzKAmFNZFbnkdkJ9ZvH5rMwWmZv7KLAHImrqKVd4kxC437dH9-IDyxkItTfWQ8jINW19bmAumD5Ui9JfS" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="150" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We learned to spell by rote</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">She spoke aloud we wrote</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">When talking was allowed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We had to recite aloud</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Each student had to shout</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The combination of letters out</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">An interesting way to learn</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">To spell the words we use.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I know there are many ways to teach students to spell.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">For my fourth graders we (my support teacher and I) have been using parts </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">these </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">guiding questions-</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">What does it mean?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Can you identify any prefixes or suffixes?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We practice this often, they are noticing patterns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre;">and learn the meanings of words, through inquiry.</span><br />
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Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-20488609866463527102018-03-13T03:47:00.002-07:002018-03-13T03:55:53.419-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Our parties were the talk of the town. When I was seven, </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">my birthday party was held at</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">home, mainly in the garden. </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We wore trendy clothes Mama had made for us. She was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">fashionable too. </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our hair was untouched, natural, kinky and </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">bushy. We looked the part,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">had the best prizes for the winners. </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">My brother Mike always won. He was a great dancer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">with moves </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">like Michael Jackson, he was not inhibited when it came to dancing. He is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">now </span><span style="font-family: comfortaa; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">a very calm gentleman whose voice is never heard. How we change!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">spicy, </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">made just right for children. We ate </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">heaps and heaps of the colorful, tempting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">rice with </span><span style="font-family: comfortaa; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">large pieces of chicken completed with a creamy salad.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The sugar was too much though, sweets, drinks, and cakes. </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">This must have been the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">reason </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">why the party got livelier. </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We danced a lot and played less. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Our parties were very communal, many friends from school, neighbors and family friends</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">attended. I wish I could find the photograph of us standing on the stairs. The tall ones, Ben</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and his friends at the back and the younger ones including the birthday girl in front.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I can still see the colorful decorations and balloons hanging in the trees like ripe mangoes</span></div>
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Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270992326784763235noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356855650243964124.post-39542326367719760122018-03-12T00:16:00.002-07:002018-03-13T09:39:23.944-07:00<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">When Mama traveled</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We stayed with Auntie Rose</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Life was so different</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Life there was strange</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">When Mama traveled</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">They treated us like visitors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">an elderly statesman, a student of my high </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">school who had passed at ninety-four</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">years of age. There </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">were four choirs present, but the one that had an impact</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">My friends made </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">it, they slid through. There I was standing, embarrassed and helpless.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This is how it must have felt for those that had not passed the American Idol auditions. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Maybe I could have tried again in the </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">next year, but I didn’t. Yesterday I watched and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">heard the teenagers pipe away. Their actions and clapping matched parts of the song. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I thought </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">if only I had been a chorister, I would have been just like them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the young ones </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">how lucky they </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">were to be up there on the stage and that after forty years</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One Playtime</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The huge bell rang I was in fourth grade or so. Many feelings soared, a time to get</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">out for some fresh air and be free. Our teachers were ‘sages on stages’. We had to</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">be quiet and soak in </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">all they imparted. The main interaction was from teacher to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">teacher, </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">he always seemed to be talking to himself. He loved the sound of his raspy</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He beamed out, “It’s playtime. Put your pencils and books in your desks, line up</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">over </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">here and walk in a straight line. Come back in fifteen minutes. Do not be late.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The orders were loud and many, it sometimes felt as if we were in the Army. Lining</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">up to </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">play? My excitement then was because, out there we would be rid of the merciless</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">and met </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">with warmth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The bell was our savior. Freedom at last! Out of the dimly lit room and into the bright</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sunlight. Glowing and warming our bodies at that time of the morning. We were ecstatic.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why does learning </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">have to be so regimental?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We screamed and dashed, far away from our classrooms. We felt light and free. Now </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">options </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">were endless but the time was short. What could we do in fifteen minutes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eat for </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">five or three and run for ten or twelve minutes. This was luxury, so many </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">friends</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">and groups </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">to join. The decision making was eroding the time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Think, think what should I do?” I would wonder. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many days of the week, I would choose to play </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Ampe,</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ‘ a rhythmic clap twice, jump,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">kick </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">and clap twice at-the-same-time-game’ played mostly by girls. Playing opposite a </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">partner </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you would </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">select which leg was your domain. Your partner would do the </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">same</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">and hope to select </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the same leg to kick. If the legs met it was a tie, the alternative would</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">be a point to the partner with that domain. Sweat would be running down our face and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">body </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">but </span><span style="font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">this was a game that would shake away the boredom and strain from a dreary</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Playtime helped break the day and revive us to face another loathsome speech.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Through all the ups and downs</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">She was our star, we were her fans</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The music was superb</span></div>
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