April 16, '09

LeeAnna and Joella were back today after being absent Tuesday and Wednesday because of illness. Dusty left early for a track meet. Ashley is absent still; she has the flew, yuck.

Some good news about Isaiah: he is to be admitted to the Southwest Idaho Acute Care Hospital after all. Thank God for that!

Also, I changed the feed URL for the CaringBridge journal. It is now
http://feed43.com/isaiahbuck.xml

--Nat

another today

LeeAnna is down with a sinus infection and Joella is sick with something, too. Pray for them, especially LeeAnna - sounds really not fun. Ashley also went home early this afternoon - illness of some sort, I didn't get the details.

We got out and went home a period before usual; it was just study hall and we didn't need to stay, plus it gave Mr. Buck some more time. He took of for Lewiston this afternoon.

Isaiah has been showing very good signs and seems to be slowly waking up. Hope and pray. You can check out updates at the CaringBridge website set up for him. I also have created a feed with Feed43 which is funneled into the blog (look up ^^^) via a Feed Informer widget; you can also plug it into a feed reader if you want.

[Note: July 02 2009: a while back I switched it from Feed Informer to Feed2Js.]

Isaiah

We all know what's going on, and we are all praying. i could write something here, maybe I will, but I don't really need to. I will, however, leech off Mrs. Bakker's diligent blogging. She has made several posts about Isaiah.

If you want to keep up with what's going on:

Mrs. Bakker's blog
friend Sharon Robertson on Facebook
friend Jackie Barreto on Facebook
get on the email list - talk to/call/email my mom (Sharon)
etc…
more etc…

You get the picture. Keep praying.

Edit 04/08/09: I just posted to a broken mold and linked to some stuff; see it if you want. I linked to a collection of bookmarks relating to Isaiah (or just use that link... whatever).

sad times

These are sad times here at Providence Academy.

Today, there is no school. Actually, I'm not so sad about that, because I've been sick over the weekend and really don't mind not going (I was going to go, though). We had a sick day on Thursday, too, but I wouldn't have gone anyway… I came down sick Wednesday at school… fever. I managed, though.

And now… Elliot and I are recovering, Ashley is sick, Isaiah is sick, Joella and LeeAnna are sick again, and I don't know about the rest (evidently at least 5 down, though, since we cancelled). Dusty was sick part of last week and Blake was getting sick Wednesday and then Thursday and the weekend happened and I don't know how they are. Of Joseph I know not either, except that he went to the Darwinism seminar/conference/thingy up in Moscow on Friday, so… And Anna is doing better, I hear. Mr. Buck's still a bit sick, I think, and of the rest of the staff, I know not for sure.

But of course the real sadness is what some of us found out a few weeks ago (so now everybody knows). We can't afford to keep Mr. Buck on for next year. Which pretty much means no more of the school as we know it, unless God does something amazing (which He's been known to do…). And so the Bucks might be moving so Mr. Buck can have work. And the Deals are moving in the summer. We are breaking up… old ways will be behind us. Strange idea, really. And kind of annoying… I mean, I go to a school since 5th grade and then miss my senior year there? Gah!!!

So anyway, Mr. Buck has us praying for the school at the end of the day there, and we can definitely pray for it anytime. This is year 10 for PA… and now it seems we have come to the end. A ten year experiment, eh?

Anna absent and Marshall Cox guest

Title pretty much says it; Anna has a cold and so was absent today. Marshall Cox was a guest at school today, for some reason or another.

--Nathaniel

spaghetti + casual

So here's what happened today.

Today was a a casual day, so everybody came in casual clothes.
Joella was absent; she's still sick, and resting up for her recital, I would guess.
Mr. Barton was absent as he was Tuesday, so Mr. Tollefson taught and gave us an overview of the Old Testament and we played a trivia game.
We did some reading on Socialism and Democracy in Rhetoric today (depending on which team our on... I'm socialist!)
We had a great potluck lunch of spaghetti (noodles and red sauce/stuff), salad, milk free garlic bread (I think that's what it was... kind of looked like french toast), my mom's cookie bars, somebody else's cookies, and jello (no carrots for real, Blake... 'twas pineapple).
We took a quiz in US History over the reading we were supposed to have done. And we watched some of Gods and Generals.
I left during study hall (forgot to do my chore, realized that on the short ride home). Did some piano practicing at home, then drove to my piano lesson with my mom. Got to play the sanctuary piano; it's the crispest one I've ever used... nice. And driving home was fine; did not run over any toasters, but had to stop for some birds.

And then I've been online for hours, a good portion of that dealing with PAN. And the news, if you didn't catch it earlier, and didn't notice for some reason, is that we have a nice, bright, new template: VectorLover. I've been customizing it; widgets have been added, links added, tags put in a tag cloud. Any comments? About anything?

Oh, and P.S. the annual Talent Show went well. I think I'll put up a link to my Facebook album of pictures soon (I think posted those...).

--Nathaniel

everybody back again (2nd time)

Everybody was back again today… for the second time. Dusty and Isaiah had been out sick but they were both back today.

Other stuff: talent show is on Friday. Wake Up Jane is performing a song they wrote and Mrs. Bomberger's Chorus class is singing a few, too. Hope we do well. And as far as I know, I'm not exhibiting any of my photography, as I am assuming the photography the Deals are putting on display are prints, and I have very few of those (like four).

Regarding the template, I have a bunch bookmarked from BTemplates. I might note even use any of those, but some of them are pretty cool.

And… the US History class (Anna, Ashley, Blake, Dusty, Isaiah, and Nathaniel) is doing a couple of class projects. Anna, Blake, and Dusty are working on a gigantic timeline of people from 1800-1900. Also, we're doing yet another paper, but this one is accompanied by a fill blown project of some kind (or a poster for losers less points) and the timeline for it stretches into next trimester (the final trimester, woo-hoo!).

we're all back together

Thank God for answering my prayer that we'd all be back together again soon! Today was the first day in a while that all the students of Providence Academy were in attendance. LeeAnna had been the missing one (for a shorter time) this time. And, it seems maybe Ashley doesn't/didn't have mono, since she is feeling better so soon.

But please pray for Mr. Buck, as he is getting sick once again, and he's under a lot of stress anyway. And please pray/continue to pray for Mr. Obama, especially during this crucial time of beginning.

Ashes is back, LeeAnna still gone

Not much else to say than that, except congrats to Mr. Obama, and I will be praying for him, as I hope you all will.

And… I hope to work on the template this weekend. Hopefully we can make this blog a little more of a jumping off point/social center/whatever.

TTFN.
Nat.

An update… finally

Hello all, Nathaniel here, and it's been a while.

So, what's been going on at Providence Academy. Well, LeeAnna returned recently after healing up from a (literally) deadly staff infection, but Ashley found out she has mono. Not cool. And… what with all the sickness (LeeAnna's sick again… just a regular somethingarather, I am guessing), Wake Up Jane's clock is ticking away. Talent Show is on the 30th, and they haven't practiced for quite a while.

The rest of us have just been plugging away… Algebra 2 Chapter 5 test is on Tuesday (finally!). I already started it thought, and Anna's already got it finished.

Old Testament has been quiet enough, as usual. Rhetoric has been cool… we're reading some papers we did and debating them. Mr. Tollefson has no qualms about some intense questions.

Creative Writing I don't know much about… I can only guess it's been chugging along, too.

Chorus (yes, that's what it's *really* called): we've been chilling with this DVD called The Perfect Blend (is there really a 'the' on the front?)

Lunch… cool and boring as always. =)

That's all I can think of classwise right now.

And in blog news… I think maybe sometime in the near future I'll change the blog template to something light and a bit easier to read. Not that I don't like the template, but it's not the most ergonomic on the eyes. And, I've found some good sources for Blogger templates, it seems, so it's just a matter of finding a good one, applying it, and tweaking. Got any suggestions… specific recommendation or theme or style idea? Drop a comment if you do.

And, one more thing: I don't know if y'all noticed, but I changed a setting a while back so that the post date appears at the bottom of the post. Much better for reference.

Oh, and not to mention… Anna and Matthew recently rolled their car, but their all A-OK. The car is a bit damaged, but not totaled.

Ok, I'm done, I promise.

Sickness Cancels School and a New Website

Today I am taking advantage of our rarely working Internet. The event that brought me to this rare event was too many sick children at Providence. In the interest of everyones well-being we decided to take the day off. I was really surprised when no one complained. As I type I am uploading the latest changes to the school website and I think the new look is a good one. I still would like to see more student pictures on the front page but size is always an issue. The Seniors are hard at work on the Lostine History Project and soon we will have our first five Alumni interviews online (both text and audio).
In other news: yesterday we were blessed to get a wireless internet connection at school (courtesy of an anonymous donation) and by the end of next week we hope to have internet available for student research! What a long awaited blessing that will be. God is very good to provide what we need just when we need it.