I finished Harry Potter, i finished Harry Potter (took me 2 days but I know who dies etc etc etc).
What a busy time, but before that some host parent news. The Boisseneaults are continuing with the child slavery theme, this time poor Cheri got chained to the mower, just look at her go,

you may think she's smiling but it's really fear, look what is lurking in the garden beside her

Liz (her host mum) sends me this message which makes it look like the girls are having fun but really I know different!!!

So after the twins went to a film with Liz and Annelise,
and stayed up really, really late at the Beaulieu's last
night, I took them to church, then to a BBQ with strange
people I work with, Naomi comes home and wants to mow the
grass again. So she does that and Kevin makes Cherie take
a turn. She did brilliant and was elated that she was
driving! haha included a picture. :-)

Oh yeah, we picked out a present for you today in Freeport
too. ;-D

I hope my pressie isn't the snake!!

Meanwhile Naomi is being sent out to work on a ranch in the wild west somewhere,

Ride on Cowgirl.
Liz also passes on this message to all host families,

Please let people know that we picked Monday, July 25 for
the Whale Watch at 2:30 pm in Kennebunkport. Tickets are
$32 each unless we can get a group of 20 to go.

We are planning a train trip to Boston on Saturday, July
30 and we will be going to the Museum of Science and the
Aquarium, and possibly Fanuel Hall. The train is like
$35.00 ( I am trying to get FREE tickets from someone i
know, he will let me know soon).

OK, that's all for now I think. I'll leave you alone!

Liz

So contact Liz if you want to take part in either event, details in the host family handbook.

In other news.....a bus load headed down to Boston on Monday to see the Red Sox play, unfortunately they lost 1-3 but despite it all we had a good time, here are some pix of the game.

Thank you to everyone who went on the trip and helped raise funds for the Program, its very much appreciated.

Of course some people(Nadeen & Stacey) managed to get their pic taken by the Red Sox official photographer

On Tuesday Val and I took Heather and Nadeen with us to the Shaker Village near Gray. It was a very interesting trip and I recommend you get there if you have the chance. There are only 4 Shakers left in the community (which is the last Shaker village left in the world).

On Wednesday we made a very very very early start (3am) and went to Boston for the day, here are some pix from the tour.

We also visited the aquarium where we saw some very ugly fish (this one was over 4 feet long!!)

some cute penguins,

and a brave diver (there is a shark in that tank)