School Day and Pot Luck Dinner

Today, Friday was school day. From all reports everyone had a great time in various classes. The daily announcements were made by some of our students over the school PA system. 30 Pizzas went down well at lunchtime and the pot luck dinner was put on by David and Elise Belnap was wonderful giving every one a chance to meet all the other families. The are a couple of photos which I will download later. In the meantime we are now into the final stage of our hosting in Mesa with families applying for adoption because they have just loved having our students. We've told them that we have to take them all home with us so let me know if you don't want them back (just joking!).

San Xavier del Bac and Old Tuscon

Well the Mission was great and the Old Tuscon Film Studios were a lot of fun.
I've heard the weather has been damp in Sydney so we've been really lucky with the weather with only on wet day (and that was last weekend), a glorious 21C with sunshine today.

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Tortilla Flat and Goldfields

Hi everyone,

Well finally here are the photos from the day trip. Hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed the day.
Gordon and Helen Vick.

Sonora Desert Museum, Tuscon, AZ

Grand Canyon

Back on line again for our first day of exploring. On the bus after 5 days of homestay, the chatter never stopped. Sounds as if there have been some great adventures and some great new friends made in homestay and what a day for our first day out. The Grand Canyon in the snow. It was cold but clear in the early part of the day and it was fantastic to hear the surprise in the kids voices as they caught their first sight of the Canyon. We walked the rim trail, had snowball fights and took heaps of photos, some of which are here. By the end of the walk it was actually snowing and visibility almost lost. Don't worry if your son/daughter is not in a photo. They were taken at random with whoever we could catch but we did bring all 40 home! We had a fabulous day despite the cold (about -2C).

Off to the Sonora Desert tomorrow. A totally different scenario.

San Francisco

New Years Day

Well we had a really great in time in SF. Finished up with a city tour and some shopping time at Amoeba Records. The flight to Phoenix was smooth and the students were met at the airport by their host families with banners, posters, cheers and a happy birthday.

Its all been very quiet since and I guess that means everyone is happy and busy. We've done some shopping and sleeping. My host is putting on a belated Thanksgiving Dinner with family and turkey.