November stuff

November in Kandern. A mix of gray drizzly days interspersed with glorious sunshine and warmth. And then there's plague or at least it seemed so. Days where ten to fifteen of the school population was out sick with swine flu. BFA held a long "break the swine flu chain" weekend (4 days) followed by isolation of the population to the campus, keeping the kids out of the local grocery stores. It seems to have helped, attendence is back up and Carl survived his bout with it and the community saw that we were doing our bit. One of the more interesting moments was attending the high school play with the entire audience masked.

We've got about four weeks to go before Christmas break. Hannah's on the basketball team (playing guard and serving as co-captain). Carl has landed the lead role of Maxwell Smart in the middle school production of the theatrical version of "Get Smart". This will be a step up from his Weepy the Dwarf role in last year's (rave reviews, by the way) production of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves of the Black Forest". We are quite excited for Carl - he does seem genuinely gifted towards this stuff. If you're in the neighborhood March 12, 13 of 2010 we can reserve you a ticket.

Last we we got to go to one of the dorms (we fill in there on a regular basis) for dorm Thanksgiving (a week earlier than you guys celebrate). This Saturday is BFA's annual Christmas Banquet, a semi-formal excuse to dress up and have some fun. Kids perform, Christmas wishes are granted, the kids look great. This year Carl gets to be a server - an eighth grade privilege - Hannah and Diane get to look georgeous and I get to co-emcee (could be awkward!).