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Sun, 15 Mar 2009

Did I mention that Thomas has been studying Peru in his JET class?  Two weeks ago he had an open house and we got to go and see all the projects that the class had been making. They had quite the display. Here Thomas is standing on the bridge that goes over the Amazon River. If you look closely, you can see a pirahna sneaking up to attack his foot. Thomas also displayed weaving, a copper mask, and a model of Machu Pichu out of paper mache. Since I've always been interested in Peru, it was interesting for me. Maybe Thomas and I can visit the real Peru together someday.

Since I had this picture, I remembered the above event, but otherwise couldn't think of what else has been happening this week. I am THRILLED to be done with my clinical assignment and move on to a five-week preceptorship at my nearby hospital. I think the hardest parts of my semester are over. Adding to my joy is the fact that this is Spring break for me and I can start to get caught up before the preceptorship starts. Maybe I'll clean the house…no, that would be too drastic

Speaking of cleaning up. What do you do when your refrigerator is filled with leftovers? Some weeks I have quite the collection by the weekend and make everyone live on leftovers on Saturdays and Sundays while I choose not to cook. That does get old, however. Yesterday, I told people they were on their own, but the leftovers were still waiting for me this morning. Marc said, "It sounds like a restaurant for dinner tonight." That is one of our ways of getting rid of our extra food.  I took a picture of our menu tonight but think it might be too small to read. The menu was very cryptic like "mud with scoopers", "brown goo", "pricklies", "green balls". Anyway, tonight we had this obnoxious waitress who took everyone's order and then served us. I should have taken a picture. Melody and Thomas used to get into this and make us nice paper menus, but the last two times we have gone to this restaurant, the menu has just been written on this tacky white board. So that's how our exciting life goes around here, school and leftovers. Next week the kids will have time off so maybe we will do something more exciting than leftovers.