Summer Update: School, Dance, and Books

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It's been a long time since I posted here, and lots has been happening. I've been working hard to try to finish up Algebra II and Medieval History. I've been doing art classes once a week (pictures to come eventually), Irish dance (soft shoe and hard shoe) once a week, and, starting this week, ballet two to three times a week! There have also been lots of parties and spontaneous get togethers in the nice weather, plus many birthdays to celebrate.

Sunset over Bellingham Bay, on a spontaneous evening excursion to the park with some friends.

I am currently reading The Prince for History, and just finished Are You My Mother? and Maggot Moon, both of which I have written reviews for which will come out soon. If I have time, I'll try to review Fun Homeas well, since it kind of comes before Are You My Mother?

It's been hot around here, in the high 70's to mid 80's all this week. It's supposed to get close to 90 soon, which is quite hot for NW Washington!

As usual, I'm staying busy this week with dance (I have 1.5 hrs of ballet and 2 hrs of Irish on Monday, plus ballet on Friday, and maybe on Thursday), volunteering at the library, a family soccer picnic tonight, a World Cup party tomorrow, and art class, golf, and probably other things I forgot. I'll be reading, doing school, and editing as well.

I'll try to get back to blogging more again soon, but probably not until August, when things really calm down a bit for us. We are camping in Bend, OR for a week in about 10 days, so I won't be blogging then either.

I'll get a few book reviews up this week, but other then that, I probably won't be on here until the beginning of August.

Summer Plans

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It's getting to the time of year where it's hard not to start thinking about summer. There is still plenty of the school year to go (and even more work than I have time for), but with the weather getting nicer, summer feels almost within reach.

For the most part, I don't like to make to many plans for the summer, and instead just let things happen as they will, but there are a few things I intend to do this year. First of all, I'm most likely going to be taking Driver's Ed with a friend, assuming the scheduling works out. I definitely plan on doing the library's Teen Summer Reading Program, like I did last summer.

If my dance studio offers summer classes for Irish (they did last year), I plan on doing those. I'm sure I'll keep going with the editing jobs I've been working on for the past year, and there is a possibility that I might be doing a little Latin tutoring to a middle school student in our homeschool group. I'm also planning on taking a camping trip to Oregon in July with several families we know.

My main goal for the summer is to avoid doing school, but whether or not that comes to pass really is going to be decided by how hard I work now. My goal is to finish as much as possible by the end of June, though I may end up with some things to finish up in July.

So, overall, I don't have a lot of summer plans, but if this summer is like every other, it will end up being plenty busy. I just don't know yet with what. :)

What are your summer plans?

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