Sunday, June 16, 2024

16 June 2024

Happy Father's Day! Brandan celebrated his day by talking to beloved family.
 
Abe completed his FSY counselor training this week. His first assignment begins the last week in June.

More FSY photos.

FSY

FSY

Abe and his roommates tried out an all-you-can-eat cold cereal buffet restaurant, Between the 5 of them they ate 35 bowls of cold cereal. The buffet costs $11 a person, so we think the restaurant still made money.

Abe's intramural volleyball team last year was named Beef, after Abe's high school nickname. His current roommates liked his intramural T-shirt so well that they ordered their own. After eating cold cereal, they took their photo in the meat section of Walmart.

Friday was the last day of school. Becky borrowed the school popcorn popper and  her classes watched Twilight spoof videos and ate popcorn. She greatly underestimated how much popcorn to bring. Using the big popcorn popper was pretty fun.

Our school is being rebranded over the summer so everything with Renaissance logos needed to come down. This is the sign Becky had hanging outside her classroom this year.

Becky was surprised by an assortment of gifts and thank you notes from students.

This is a photo of an unexpected note at the end of a test a student retook the last week of school. This student spent September until June arguing about cell phones, tardies, seating charts, note taking, assignments, tests and pretty much everything else school related every day. This thank you note was a nice surprise.

The mom of another student dropped off two dozen roses as a thank you for helping her son. He stayed after school until 5 pm every day for 2 weeks getting caught up so he could pass math.

Our school district is abandoning its Mandarin program due to lack of student interest. We are sad to see it go. Our kids have all taken Mandarin and benefited from the experience. The Mandarin teacher gave Becky two photos she has used to promote Mandarin for the past few years. This shows Sofi, the only advanced Mandarin student her junior year, teaching a group of 2nd grade students.

Helen was a 4th grader the same year and Sofi volunteered in her classroom, too. Zheng, the Mandarin teacher, will stay at the high school and teach other subjects.

Helen went to West Fest with some friends from Freshman Orientation and sent these photos.

West Fest.

West Fest

West Fest

Our friend, Lauren, graduated from Rogue Community College and we joined a group of friends celebrating her accomplishment. From the left are Angel, Greg, Brandan, Becky, Lauren, Beka and Brant.

Gibson helped make breakfast for Brandan this morning, including a delicious berry smoothie.

He and Mary played a duet of O My Father in sacrament meeting. Mary is headed to BYU to start college later this month.

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