JT activity (in the rain:D)

Yesterday we had a JT activity at the park. It was supposed to be super sunny but it started raining so we went under a sheltered area with picnic tables. We had inspiration, then Uncle Simon read Matthew 25 and Andre, Eman, and Marieanne acted it out in a very funny skit:D. Then some people went to play soccer in the rain, but the rest of us stayed under the sheltered area and played a game. The game we played was where one person stands in the middle and the rest of the people sit around them in a circle. The person in the middle then says something that they've never done (for example, "I've never been on an airplane", or "I've never eaten Australian food"). The people who have done that have to jump up and switch seats, and the person in the middle has to try to take someone's seat. If only one person gets up, then they just switch. Then after that some of us girls were trying to find a bathroom. Oh, the first place we went into was a school, and we were a couple of feet away from the entrance of the bathroom, when this janitor lady comes up to us and says,"What are you doing here? Who are you with?" Marieanne replied that we just wanted to use the bathroom. "Well," the lady replied. "This is a private function. YOU'RE TRESPASSING!!! This is a religious mosque. You'd better leave right now!" (when she said 'you're trespassing' she didn't shout) So we left in a hurry:P. We finally found a bathroom after about 15 minutes of walking around searching for one. Then we went back to the sheltered area and we had hamburgers for dinner. Then we had vanilla ice cream in ice cream cones and cookies for dessert:P. Then we went home. I'll post pictures as soon as I can.

English Madness

Let's face it -- English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or french fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't the preacher praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage (as compared to a horseless one) or a strapful gown (as opposed to a strapless)? Met a sung hero ("unsung") or experienced requited ("unrequited") love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on, and to maintain good posture while sitting you must sit up and sit down at the same time.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all).
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.

Woohoo, another niece!

On the 15th, my sister Sue had her baby, a girl. They didn't name her yet, but I'll post her name as well as some pictures as soon as I can. She was born sometime in the afternoon, and weighed 7 lbs. 3 oz. Now I have two nieces and three nephews! Woohoo!

Goodbye Cullen!

Today Cullen (that's his new name, because nobody liked Pete) got sick and died. Well, at least he's happy in heaven now. I don't know exactly how he got sick, but ptl anyways that we got to have a few days of fun with him. We had a funeral, and everyone wore black. We didn't bury him though; it was raining. So we conducted a ceremony in the livingroom. Yannie read some verses from the Bible and we prayed for him. Here are some photos I took of him before he died.

Pictures

P.S. I post a lot of pictures, has anyone noticed?

Pete

Today I dropped the lysol bottle, and the front came off, so I brought it to my mom to see if we could fix it. We were on the porch when we saw a little baby bunny lying there, looking like it was injured. Someone put it in a shoebox. It's so cute. I'll post more pictures of it later. We named it Pete, because Eman's picked it up and saw that it's a boy. We tried feeding it lettuce but it wouldn't eat. Then we tried feeding it storebought milk with an eyedropper but it wouldn't eat. We'll look it up online later how to feed baby rabbits.

Woohoo!!!!

I'm so happy! Today I finally got a new bed (as the one I'd been using before was broken). And it even has two shelves at the head (that's the main reason why I like it so much). Well, I just thought I'd share my joy with everybody!