My friends in Chicago

I went to Chicago and saw a lot of my friends who live there.  Their names are Micah, Stella, and Lucas.  Here are some pictures of us at Aunt Caroline's house.

The Stone in the Road

I was in a play at the Our Town Theater.  The play was about a stone that was put in the middle of the road by a queen who wanted to see if people could think for themselves.  I played a knight who only knows how to take orders and does nothing without the assent of my superiors.

The Bean/Cloud Gate

I visited Chicago for three days and did a lot of stuff there.  One of the things I did was visit the Bean in Millenium Park, which is actually called Cloud Gate and was built by the English artist Anish Kapoor. It is a big bean-shaped mirror that you can go inside and have yourself staring down at you from every direction.

Our home school group

Our home school group meets every Wednesday.  Our first project was an art project and we made batiks.  When we were done with our projects we take off our shirts (the boys) and run around with nerf guns in the woods.  We play boys against girls.  My friend Elijah has an eyeclops.  It is a device that you can hook up to a tv and look at things up close by focusing the eyeclops on a object.  On a rug it could show you every little thread on the rug. There is a special treasure map that comes with the eyeclops.  There are secret messages hidden in the lines (such as: find the gold dagger).  This a picture of us looking at the map with the eyeclops.

Chopping wood

Last Saturday, my Dad and I were chopping wood.  He had rented a machine that was able to chop wood in four seconds.  I operated the machine and Dad set the wood in the machine.  Then he threw the chopped pieces into a big pile.

Kayaking

Last Friday, my Dad and I went kayaking.  We kayaked the Lower Yough on a section called "The Loop."  First we went through "Entrance rapid." Then it was on to"Cucumber" one of the hardest rapids on the whole Lower.  I led my Dad through both of those rapids.  Next was "Camel walrus, " "Eddy turn," and "Dart mouth." The we went through "Railroad" the last rapid on "The Loop."  Then we took out and walked a quarter mile with our boats on our heads.

Step Afrika

Last Thursday we went to a dance program called Step Afrika.  They do a kind of dance called step dancing. It was invented by African American college students around the 1920s.  They did it in fraternities and sororities.  They use their hands and feet as percussion instruments while dancing and sometimes incorporate chanting and singing.  

http://www.stepafrika.org/home.htm