a lonely Wednesday

Today was our last full day of school. The Rhetoric class took their final. The Algebra class did tessellation. The Latin Class finished watching Ben-Hur. The US. History class watched some of War Letters, a documentary of letters from and to U.S. soldiers during wars.

Then came clean up - more cleanup upstairs. There is so much junk up there…
Allen, James, and I helped Mr. Buck cleanout books from his office; I carried one from the late 1800s… so old.

So yeah, tomorrow is Thursday, the last day of school. Hopefully it won't be rainy like it was a little while ago (some thunder earlier). Damaris, Marie, and Joseph will be giving their Rhetoric speeches at the picnic, I think.

This is just so… weird.

--Nat

The 10 year Monday

Today is the 10 year Monday, as I just said. Actually, school was probably out by this time in '99, but anyway, we are almost to the ten year completion mark. Woot!

This morning we had chapel outside on the steps (well, the deck or whatever you call it) because we students were already hanging out there and Mr. Buck just decided to have an informal chapel there.

Today is the last week this year…. sigh. It's bittersweet as Mr. Buck said. I'm excited to get out of school for summer, but the future is uncertain and it seems it shall be a strange summer.

In any case, it's middle name week! It was my idea, and the bulk of the seven students have picked it up enthusiastically. Here is a photo for reference:

So, top row (left to right): Mr. Walter, Mrs. Ann, and Mrs. Marie
Middle row: Marylin, Marie, Rae, and Damaris (pronounced Dah-muh-ris).
Bottom row: Joseph, Allen, James, Andrew, and Leslie (the last two are seniors and aren't here this week. In fact, they're graduated!).

The rest of the week is casual attire because we are doing bunches of school cleanup in preparation for whatever comes next at Providence Acad.

Rhetoric is my main concern this week - preparation for the test and polishing and practicing my speech. See you at the picnic on Thursday!

TTFN.
Nat

Prov. Acad. May 13 2009

Today at school: much more clement weather than yesterday -- that was windy, cold, and snowy. Not really anything special. We started Chapter 11 in Algebra. We talked about branding (not like cows, but Coca-Cola) in US History. I took some pictures. I also took some of last night's award ceremony/singing/Rhetoric stuff/US History report/Latin Play with Mrs. Bomberger's camera. She has them… maybe I can get copies from her.

Anyway, [here] are the photos.

[photos] <--- Use that link if you want… sheesh, I don't care.

some Patriots Ball pics

These aren't all I took, but here (Facebook) are some better ones. If you've got links to other albums, put 'em in the comments and I'll include them.

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).