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October 6th, Thursday - Edgewater, Maryland
Cassie and Juliana were
given a school assignment to write a composition about
life on the boat for the web site.
Cassie has been working
on writing techniques in fourth grade so we emphasized
coming up with a topic and supporting statements and a
good conclusion. We are told to vary our sentence
beginnings and use proper punctuation. Any input
on grading will be happily received!
Living on a boat is
very different from living on land. In the
night the waves rock me to sleep. I like the
fact that we get to go to different places so often.
School is fun because we get to be with our parents
during it. I miss my old school and all my old
teachers and friends. Before school started on
the boat my mom stored my books under my bed.
We have lots of storage on the boat but it is hard
to get to because people are often standing on it or
sleeping on top of it! We find many places to play. We do pull-ups on
the bars, jump on the trampoline, and play in the
bow locker. Juliana and I have many games to
play while we are sailing. My sister and I
fight sometimes but usually we get along. I
think its awesome to be with my parents 24/7.
My things tell that I am an absolute tomboy and
almost never wear dresses. As you can see
there aren't many things I don't like about the
boat.
Juliana just recently wrote her first composition in
school. The teaching manual suggested having her
fill in the blanks for a story. "The sun is out.
It is ________ and _______ ." Instead, she wrote
her own paragraph about the sun that you can read on
the kids page. For this
"assignment", she sat down in front of the computer and
reviewed the pictures from our trip so far. At
first it was going to be a list of ideas for her to
write about, but it soon became a narrative of the
events that were noteworthy for her. I left all
the spelling mistakes but corrected the punctuation.
She dictated to me a couple of times when her hand got
tired so the spelling for part of this work is mine.
Sitting on the
ropes. Favorite place - New York City.
My mom took a picture with two big boats.
Making a huge sand castle. Visiting a fort
made out of boies, wood lost stuff, a hamic,
floaters and a flag. Climing rocks. Kari
walking on the water. We saw our friedens
Sidnye and Aidan. We made a little fort up in
the bow locker. Jake, Eddie and Max came over
for a week. Evry time we where on land we had
lunch at the tavern. We had an evry day
watress. My parents got 25 bottles of wine.
My mom took a picture of Cassie standing on my
shoulders and Eddie's head hanging down. In
Bosten we got a dock rihgt next to the USS
Constitution. We saw them furling the sails.
We went to Seatle to see Gran and Gramps for two
weeks without our parents. We saw Kayla, Aunt
Kathy and Uncle Jim. We went camping.
There was this big huge rushing river with a
waterfall. We made mud pies and stuff like
that. I got a really big cut on my thumb so
Uncle Jim put a band aid on it and wrapped it with
bandage tape. We had a lot of with Kayla and
her friends came camping too. It was tons of
fun. Gran and Gramps still have the
slip-n-slide I got there on my last visit. We
visted the bunker hill monument. and also visted the
pilgirm monument. We saw 5 whles and a
school of dolphins. In Pprovincetown we fond a
sand daller. In the hall we put down a bunch
of pillows and read. We went to the clam shack
and helped make rope. 2 swan came rihgt up to
are back step when we whrer down ther too. My
dad has rops that he lets us play with and we made a
playgroudout of. there was a boat, Arabella, a
three master, that we saw in Newport and saw it
again at Nantucket. We went to a football game
with Tristan in it. His sister Aria came.
They were creaming them. Home had 22 and
guests, which were the other people, had zero.
We had a lot of fun with those guys. We saw
the Statue of Liberty in New York. It was very
tall and very pretty. We took a pedi-cab and
it was really fun. Because our guy on the bicycle
was funny and on the back of the cab there was a
sticker that said "Let's party like it's 1989."
We visited the Cloisters and had a lot of fun.
Then we sailed back to Maryland in 2 days without
stopping.
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Many thanks to our
friend Craig Homenko for his assistance in setting up
the website.
We also would like
to thank our buddy Scott Brunner who has been kind
enough to host the website on his server.
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