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Hadn't realized my last message was posted Tuesday. That's quite a while ago..

I'll give you guys another update :)

Wednesday

I went to school with Nancy again. The school is an elementary school called "Adobe Acres" and the kids are so cute!

In the morning I joined the first graders in taking care of their garden. Together with some teachers, the students planted all kinds of vegetables & trees, as well as some sun flowers. They have to keep a log on what they see in the garden every time they visit it with their class.

In the afternoon I helped them make Mother's Day cards, by helping them cut out things, showing them how to spell certain words, keeping them from cutting their lips off with sicors (there are some goofy kids out there) and by making them pick up scraps from the floor, hihi. The cards for their mothers consisted of a self made pop-up flower on the front with a picture of the kids in the heart of the flower. On the inside of the card was a "love letter" to their mothers. It was a fill in the blank letter and had the title "A story about my mom".

The kids had to fill in things such as "My mom has ___ eyes and _____, _______ hair. I love my mom because____. She is so beautiful, she looks like a _____"

Many kids filled in "angel" in the beautiful _____ part, but one kid decided to fill in "puppy"

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:)

After school Nancy and I went for a swim. We couldn't figure out how to get to the pool comming out of the locker room, but we soon found a door that led to the outdoor pool. We opened the door and an alarm went off! Hadn't seen the tiny sticker that stated the door was only to be used in emergencies and that an alarm would sound if it were to be opened.

Oh well, nothing bad happened. The life guard that came to check out the alarm didn't seem to mind.

Thursday

Thursday morning I went over to Cloud Dancers and planted some flowers, scooped poop and groomed horses together with a lady and her daughter.

After that I bicycled up to the International Balloon Museum.

I faked that I was a resident by showing my learner's permit, which gave me a 3 dollar discount on the entrance price, woohoo

some pictures of the museum:

After I was finished in the museum, I tried to call Robert to pick me up, but I was out of minutes on my American simcard and so I decided to ride the bike up to Sandia Heights where Nancy and Robert live. I didn't make it, hahaha.

All of it was uphill and so steep! Don't know how long it took me to get where I got.

I was quite close to home, but I couldn't cope with the lack of oxygen (still haven't gotten used to the altitude) and so I pulled out my Dutch simcard and called Robert to pick me up anyway :)

Friday

Friday I stayed home and studied for my drivers ed theoretical test that evening. Didn't do much that day except for driving around with Nancy (she let me drive! :) ) and in the evening I took the drivers test!

Over the past two weeks, I had had driver's ed every work day for three hours in the evening. Friday evening we spent the first hour going over a parking chapter and the second hour we did a review game.

The class was devided into 4 teams of four people and there were numbers on the white board from 1-50. One team at a time would roll the dice to see for how many points they would play and then they would pick a number. The numbers corrosponded to the question number on our actual test and so the teams had to answer the actual test questions. Because of this, we discussed the whole test before doing it. We got all the questions and the answers before doing the test! So weird! I'll be surprised if anyone fails this test.

Saturday

This morning I had another hour of driving with an instructor and after that I went to Cloud Dancers to help out with the lessons. I side walked the first hour and lead the second hour I was there. The rider that was on the horse I lead in the second hour was really talkative and we had a lot of fun together. He kept telling me that he really likes girls and that the horse was such a pretty girl!

We had lots of laughs :)

After that Nancy, Robert and I had lunch together at Richard's and we went shopping at a store where they sold special products such as very old fashioned candy and foreign things, such as Nutella....

Now I'm back at the house doing nothing, maybe I should call it resting, and tonight Robert and Nancy will be going to a concert while I house sit :)