Blogging skills
The nice thing about waiting a few months between blog posts is that I now have something to blog about. Kristen can manage to find something everyday. Her life is way more interesting.
I'm glad I finally got on this blog site. I found a comment waiting for approval from a family friend back in NY. Thanks so much for the comment Mrs. Johnson! Of course we remember you. I hear updates from my parents frequently about you guys and your ever-growing family. I'd probably make more of an effort to write if I had known so many people actually read this blog. Kary Oberbrunner, a pastor/author/speaker and friend in Ohio, has been making a top 10 list why his blog stunk. I don't know if I could come up with 10, but I know a few reasons why my blog stunk and probably will continue to stink until I retire from blogging or some other internet craze is discovered that I turn my attention to.
1. I write sporatically (is that a word?)
2. I use words like "sporatically" when I don't know their meaning or spelling and am too lazy to use spell checker, which is one click away, or dictionary.com.
3. If my blog had a theme, it would probably be "poop and other bathroom tales"
4. It takes me a few years to approve comments.
5. My blog picture indicates that my face looks like that of a donkey.
I do suggest that if, despite these reasons, you want to read this blog when I write that you subscribe at the bottom left of the blog and then you will get email updates when I put up a new post. Or, add me to google reader if you use that like Kristen does. It's a pretty sweet tool if you are reading lots of different blogs.
Those of you who read Kristen's blog know that we've been "baby sitting" for the past 5ish weeks and haven't been in our home. I'm thrilled to be back at our house, where things are familiar and comfortable and Seth is in his element. I did, however, enjoy my time with the two families we watched. The Weirs have 2 kids, one in 10th grade and one in 7th. The Jacksons have 5 kids from a senior in HS to an 8 year old home schooler. I had a blast playing video games, watching TV, hanging out, playing cards, etc. with these families. The Jackson's hosted the shooting of the video "WW2 in 10 minutes" over the past weekend. This was a project for their history class. I linked the videos below so you can get a taste of what I get to deal with everyday at ICSB. The students here are really fun and quite creative.
Tojo is John - a student and bball player of mine
Hitler is Ben - a student and bball player of mine, who is known to many of you as chicken dish boy, one of the Jackson 5 that we house sat for
Churchhill is Robert H - a student I had last year and bball player of mine, he is great at editing film and very creative. He also managed to live stream our tournament games in the cafeteria this year for the bball tournament
The countries beat up by Hitler are Mason - the 10th grader we house sat for and a student I like to beat up in the hallways, similar to this video
Stalin is Robert M - a student of mine
Lady robbed by Stalin is Liz - the oldest of the Jackson 5. We like to make fun of her that she looked like a prostitute in the film. I think the boys did that on purpose
FDR is Jon - a student and bball player of mine
Pearl Harbor is Tina - a student of mine
Mussolini is Nicolas - always drawing on my whiteboard
It's 6:21 am. I woke up an hour ago not able to sleep anymore. Today is day 2 of our bball tournament. We are hosting teams from Budapest, Kiev, and Salzburg. We lost our first game by 1 to our rival school here in Budapest. We haven't beat that team since I've been here. So far we've lost to them by 18, 3, 1 and 1. We were down 10 last night in the 4th quarter and came back with a chance to win in the last second, but the shot just missed. It was really exciting and I am really proud of the guys for how hard they played. I hope we win both our games today so we get a chance at them in the championship on Saturday. We have a big game this morning against Kiev. So I'm off to get ready. I hope to blog again to update you on how the games went and brag about how fun Seth is and how much I love being a dad. Thanks so much for everyone's prayers and words of encouragement. It's fun to hear from you.
I'm glad I finally got on this blog site. I found a comment waiting for approval from a family friend back in NY. Thanks so much for the comment Mrs. Johnson! Of course we remember you. I hear updates from my parents frequently about you guys and your ever-growing family. I'd probably make more of an effort to write if I had known so many people actually read this blog. Kary Oberbrunner, a pastor/author/speaker and friend in Ohio, has been making a top 10 list why his blog stunk. I don't know if I could come up with 10, but I know a few reasons why my blog stunk and probably will continue to stink until I retire from blogging or some other internet craze is discovered that I turn my attention to.
1. I write sporatically (is that a word?)
2. I use words like "sporatically" when I don't know their meaning or spelling and am too lazy to use spell checker, which is one click away, or dictionary.com.
3. If my blog had a theme, it would probably be "poop and other bathroom tales"
4. It takes me a few years to approve comments.
5. My blog picture indicates that my face looks like that of a donkey.
I do suggest that if, despite these reasons, you want to read this blog when I write that you subscribe at the bottom left of the blog and then you will get email updates when I put up a new post. Or, add me to google reader if you use that like Kristen does. It's a pretty sweet tool if you are reading lots of different blogs.
Those of you who read Kristen's blog know that we've been "baby sitting" for the past 5ish weeks and haven't been in our home. I'm thrilled to be back at our house, where things are familiar and comfortable and Seth is in his element. I did, however, enjoy my time with the two families we watched. The Weirs have 2 kids, one in 10th grade and one in 7th. The Jacksons have 5 kids from a senior in HS to an 8 year old home schooler. I had a blast playing video games, watching TV, hanging out, playing cards, etc. with these families. The Jackson's hosted the shooting of the video "WW2 in 10 minutes" over the past weekend. This was a project for their history class. I linked the videos below so you can get a taste of what I get to deal with everyday at ICSB. The students here are really fun and quite creative.
Tojo is John - a student and bball player of mine
Hitler is Ben - a student and bball player of mine, who is known to many of you as chicken dish boy, one of the Jackson 5 that we house sat for
Churchhill is Robert H - a student I had last year and bball player of mine, he is great at editing film and very creative. He also managed to live stream our tournament games in the cafeteria this year for the bball tournament
The countries beat up by Hitler are Mason - the 10th grader we house sat for and a student I like to beat up in the hallways, similar to this video
Stalin is Robert M - a student of mine
Lady robbed by Stalin is Liz - the oldest of the Jackson 5. We like to make fun of her that she looked like a prostitute in the film. I think the boys did that on purpose
FDR is Jon - a student and bball player of mine
Pearl Harbor is Tina - a student of mine
Mussolini is Nicolas - always drawing on my whiteboard
It's 6:21 am. I woke up an hour ago not able to sleep anymore. Today is day 2 of our bball tournament. We are hosting teams from Budapest, Kiev, and Salzburg. We lost our first game by 1 to our rival school here in Budapest. We haven't beat that team since I've been here. So far we've lost to them by 18, 3, 1 and 1. We were down 10 last night in the 4th quarter and came back with a chance to win in the last second, but the shot just missed. It was really exciting and I am really proud of the guys for how hard they played. I hope we win both our games today so we get a chance at them in the championship on Saturday. We have a big game this morning against Kiev. So I'm off to get ready. I hope to blog again to update you on how the games went and brag about how fun Seth is and how much I love being a dad. Thanks so much for everyone's prayers and words of encouragement. It's fun to hear from you.
KEVIN YAIKO!! MRS. Johnson died long before I even met Richard. I am Debbie, please! (I'm NOT old enough to be a Mrs.!) I'm SO thankful you three are enjoying life to the fullest! I love Kristen's "Living My Dream" blog, too. And you obviously treasure the moments with Seth (his blog pics are precious) - believe me, they fly by all too rapidly. I'll enjoy hearing about further escapades. (The chicken boy thing is a HOOT!) May God continue to give you joy!
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I am LOVING this video - tell the guys they did a great job! I especially like when France gets the crap kicked out of "him"
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