Well hi there! How are you on this fine day? The picture you see above is me as Darth Maul. Saturday BonnieJean and I went to a costume party for the college and career class at church. So I decided to be Darth Maul. At first I was thinking that I should just do the make up and the outfit and that I wouldn't try to do the horns. But Mom said that if I was going to be Darth Maul then I should go ahead and do it right, so...we shaved my head, except for in the places where we wanted horns! Between the haircut and the make up it took Mom an hour and a half to get it all done and the end result was very good. At first not everybody at the party realized it was me! I recited a poem called "I don't hate" by Darren Collin (so of course it was outrageously hilarious) and it was well received. But of course I only plan on doing something this wild with my hair about every twenty years, so I had to keep this look for at least a little while. So this morning I showed up at church with a totally bald head, except for in spots where there were big spikes sticking up. I got some very good reactions. Mr. S said that if I showed up at chess like that (which I plan to) he'll pretend he doesn't know me. Aaron got out his knife and wanted to shave the rest of it off right then. Mr. H told me that he was praying for me.
Monday night only BonnieJean, Anna and I went to karate because Naomi wasn't feeling well and Ethan, Dad and Joshua had to go to ALERT Cadets. I got to spar against Mr. G (a black belt and a really cool guy) and actually did fairly well against him. I scored a few times and defended myself pretty well (considering).
After class we were driving home and the van died in the middle of the highway! We couldn't get it started for anything and to top it off, the flashers on the back wouldn't work! So we decided to try and walk to a gas station, call Mom, have her call Mrs. J, and get Philip's cell phone number, call us back and give it to us (Philip is a fellow home schooler from our town and does karate at the same school we do). It was a long way to the exit, but a kind man gave us a ride and allowed us to use his cell phone. We finally managed to get ahold of Philip and he was still in the area, so he and Steven (his brother, also a home schooler and karate guy) came and got us. We squeezed into his five seater pickup and drove home. Mom and Dad drove into Tulsa at the same time and Dad got the van started and driven home.
Last Tuesday Martha came over! Yea! we had a blast. Her sisters dropped her off at our house and she stayed for about two and a half hours. We (of course) made the traditional joint post on the RI and I enjoyed showing off my various blackmail pictures of RI'ers (she particularly liked the picture of Brian brushing his teeth!)
Thursday Philip and Steven (the same guys who drove us home on Monday) came over to have supper and sparring with us. We had a really great time. Steven is amazingly quick: he can throw a lead-leg round house to my head and I don't even see it coming half the time. Philip isn't as good as Steven, but he is still a very, very good fighter. We also worked on kata a good deal.
Last week was the last week of summer camps at work. Naomi took the regular camp and Ethan did the mini-camp (trampoline that week-he had a blast). Two girl got their back handspring for the first time by themselves. We worked really hard with them all week to get it, because they had to get it that week in order to go on to the next level on the team. They both finally got it on Thursday, which was cool. I'm not going to be working next month, because the only night they have anything going on is team practice on Monday nights and I have karate on Monday. I will be working the cheerleading class on Tuesdays for the next three weeks though, but that's only one hour a week. I think I'll enjoy the break and use it to try and get some stuff finished up before the school year starts.
I've got to go now. Bye! God bless!
