ISU keychain

Our free keychains from the Alumni Association came in the mail the other day. The association gives them out to new grads and on Facebook lots of alumni were asking how to get their own. They said to contact them, so I did. My keys are already on it.

Our Tiger Lillies have finally bloomed.

The work on the alley across from us starts soon. We watched them move in a lot of heavy equipment tonight.

Maybe the cats sense Mayu is leaving soon? They've been jumping up for her to pet them and keep wanting to be played with. And from Japan:

L went out to dinner with her host family. She said she had the burger with cheese inside it.

Sensei's report:

Hello! It is Wed. 6/20!

We were in school all day. Some students are tired. We have been going non-stop. Kids were out doing things most of the weekend, so they didn't get much rest. Yesterday was a hot day and we walked to the temple in the sun. Although it was very close to school, it still made us more tired. So we have a few kids resting at the nurse's office this morning. We should make signs saying "reserved for Americans" and put them beds in nurse's office ... The nurse continues to take care of our students. She is a saint. The beds there are actual beds and they are comfy! I think OPRF purposely make the beds uncomfortable so students wouldn't stay all day.

We made the newspaper again this morning! Our zen meditation outing is in the paper! Back to school day. ... Deaton Sensei and I came back to teacher's office and a home ec teacher came over and showed us drawings of bento that Lindsey and Seamus did. She said that students were studying nutrition so she had them draw bento and analyze the nutritious value. Lindsey's drawing was pretty good! It has rice, tempura shrimp, apple slices and fish paste. She colored it nicely too. Then, Seamus's. Yes. It was ... cute. es, even the home ec teacher said that it was "cute." We will leave it at that. OPRF has a pretty good art program so maybe he can take a class next year.

Tomorrow will be a long day, visiting three elementary schools. We hope we can give you a good report!