Life: Idiotropic

Today I attended two events at the girls' school. First, was the young authors tea, an opportunity for the students, (Arianna in this case) to show off their work to their parents. Parents and students congregated in the library where the kids, armed with large overstuffed portfolios, read to the waiting adults. I was absolutely impressed with the imagination, creativity, and skill in which Arianna wrote and illustrated. She's amazing. As soon as that was finished, the kids rushed to the MPR and changed. Then we saw the 1st grade classes put on a vocabulary parade in which each student, dressed like their vocab word of choice, marched across the state and gave us the definition. Arianna chose habitat. She wore my old green girl scout uniform, a green vine, a green hat, and flowers, then had a monkey hanging from her arm and a frog on her hand. Some kids got elaborate... we saw a cage full of hearts, an aquarium, a rubics cube, a globe, and a boy wrapped in a narrow tube of poster board made into a map with cars glued onto it - so tightly that he has to walk with very short steps, penguin-like, across the stage.