From Fiona

Guess what? I can play the guitar and I know just three songs but they are easy. We finally got our wardrobes, but they smell BAD! So M&P [mama and papa] slept in our room because their room smells bad. We will start school on Tuesday. We found a tick today. That's all from Fiona

That was a GOOD movie ! (by Elena)

The movie I'm talking about is The Lord Of The Rings. I had a deal to read the book and then watch the movie. It was good, but gross. I watched the extended version of the Fellowship Of The Ring , cause I did so good on the test I took. It is a special test that we take to see if we really understand the book. And I got 19 out of 20, they where hard questions. That was on Sunday. Yesterday Sydney insisted on making a band so we called it Ms.Dynamite. Cause we are all girls, well that is if you are not counting the backstage dancers , Mama & Papa. Well I need to go eat lunch, bye

Sydney decided to write something

Hello,

I am Sydney and we were having some fun. Did you have any fun today? I'm glad that my Papa doesn't have to go to work today. We went and played games with Papa's students. Me and Papa went to the classroom and cleaned and I showed him pictures that I drew. My Papa and my two sisters are making dinner. We will eat baked beans and bacon omelets. My Mama finished my bag. This morning Papa cleaned the filters on the a/c's. Well, that's it for right now from Sydney.

What Sydney thinks about our holiday

In Benin I learned how to ride a bike without training wheels. The oldest daughter, Noemi, taught me. I learned in 2 days. She gave me a medal because I did such a good job. And I got to keep the bike!

We had a chameleon that we found on the side of the road. Then we went to these people's house. They already had 2 chameleons. We put ours in their cage. One night, it got out. Now we don't have it.

We got satellite for 3 months. Now we get to watch all sorts of stuff on TV. (Now there's a big discussion each time it's turned on as to what we will watch. They all have to "get their fix" of TV for the year!)

Benin according to Fiona

As you know we went to Parakou, Benin. The oldest girl in the family we visited has a duck who had baby duckings. But the mama duck did not let us touch them. It was sooooooooooooooooooooooooo fun to see the baby ducks swim in the water. Now we are home and guess we got? Two BIRDS and they are dark blue Canaries. Their names are Ping and Pong because they fly all over the cage like ping pong balls. (Mama says we'll have to put a picture of Ping and Pong on here later because we haven't taken one of them yet.)

~Fiona

We had a great time !!!

We really did have a great time in Benin. That is where we went on our vacation. The family we visited got some packages, BIG packages or rather boxes, full of Christmas stuff. Well, they offered us some and we could choose what we wanted. It was AWESOME !! I did not know where to start, there where so many ornaments. So now we have loads of Christmas stuff. I hope the ornaments survived the long and bumpy trip. _ Elena

PS We just got back from a 10 day vacation in the north of Togo and Benin, visiting friends. We all had a great time and have many memories. More to come from the other girls later. ~the Editor