Happy Summer and Movies

Hello--

SCHOOL's OUT! Welcome to the last week of June! Ugh-- how did THAT happen? Funny but it seems like school just barely ended...okay, it DID just end! Wednesday was Kara's last day. She was very happy to be finished studying for those last tests...physics and math. Now she has a breather from classes for 2 months! It might even be 10 weeks. YESSS!

Frank was in NYC all week, so it's nice to have him back. It's so fun to vacation there! But when he goes, and tries to just get "quick meals" here and there, he is reminded of how much it costs to LIVE there. Craziness.

One of their team-building exercises during the week was to have a chef come in and show them how to prep and cook a 4-course meal. This time they made Thai food. Yum!

GOVERNMENT WORK. We talked to David this morning, one more week under his belt at the U.S. Consolate. (Frank and I also watched the most recent "Jason Bourne" movie on Friday...those government programs seem pretty dangerous...maybe fingerprinting is the way to go after all, David...)

David will be staying in 3 different apartments (via airbnb) during his Milan summer. He's now into the 2nd place. Less square footage than the first apartment; it's pretty tiny. This one is only about a 4 minute walk from the church building, though, so that's cool. They have normal Sunday meetings, and Institute (scripture class) on Thursdays.


I had my last day of school, too, last week. They never tell me until the end of August if I'm officially working for that school year.  But our number of students won't change dramatically, and we're usually providing fewer tutor hours than the kids SHOULD be getting in ELL. I expect to be doing the same thing next school year, as I did this school year.

MISSIONARY MOVIE. Did you ever see 'The Other Side Of Heaven?" It's a Disney movie, the story of a man who served a 3-year mission for the LDS church in the Philippines (I think that was the location). I think it came out in 2006. Anne Hathaway played the girlfriend, who eventually became the wife of the missionary.

The man that story is about, is the grandfather of somebody in our congregation. So, he arranged for him to come out and do a fireside for our youth! It was a cool thing. The kids had watched the movie a week or so beforehand.

Highlights Kara said, were that the movie did not make things up--the events in the show all really happened. And that Anne Hathaway called his wife 3 or 4 times throughout filming, to hear her tell the stories, etc. He got to meet the two main characters of the movie (Anne included), when it opened in 2006. He also got to watch the last few scenes being filmed. It was a neat experience for him, and fun for our kids to hear his inspirational stories.

Blog time is up! That was just a quick "Welcome to Summer" post. Here is a pic of Frank and I at the outdoor sculpture museum a few weeks ago. There was this super-cool tree where you could climb underneath and sit in the shade.

Have a great week! :)

Kari