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With love and peace,
Sarah

It was great

Friends of Refugees was loads of fun. I helped several kids with mostly math (but it wasn't too bad). This one girl talked to me about her family and why she wore her head covering (she said "because of my religion" then changed the subject before I could ask more). It was fun, though, all of it. The room was hot and busy and crowded. There was 11 of us tutoring and sometimes three or four children were crowded around one person, working on the same thing. Mrs. Carla Hersey, one of the ladies in charge of Friends of Refugees, said that on a day like that, with that many children, they usually had 2 or 3 people helping tutor. We need to go there more.

Pray for the Hersey family and for Friends of Refugees.

With love and peace,
Sarah

Friends of Refugees

Tomorrow I am going back to help tutor refugee children at Friends of Refugees. I went once last year. It's nerve-racking and amazing at the same time. It's nerve-racking because you have to help these kids with their homework and half of the time you don't know what you're doing! And you feel bad if you don't help them. You feel like you're hurting their education.
But it's amazing because you get to know these children from all over the world and they just love you like you're life's bread. Sometimes you even get the chance to talk to them about Jesus. A lot of the time these kids aren't raised in Christian homes. Last time I spent all afternoon with a little Muslim girl.
I feel so blessed to have this opportunity. I am sure we will go again before the school year is over. Maybe even two more times. I hope so. It really is an amazing experience. Let's pray God makes it meaningful for all of us.

With love and peace,
Sarah

Things to be happy about...

rain
movies
not a lot of homework
good friends
sweet memories
dogs
telephone booths
pumpkins
sunshine
ancient sculptures
comfortable shoes
fuzzy blankets
languages
Ga-ga ball
sugar
colors
fireplaces
honest people
jokes
that feeling of being excited to read a book
decisions
hairdressers
grandparents
toe socks
toe socks with Chacos

With peace and love,
Sarah

Sad day...

My computer got a virus... somehow. So in order to salvage my computer, my dad had to reset everything. Everything. We made a backup through Microsoft who said it was copying all of my documents. However, once we got my computer restarted we realized... it didn't. And my story - my 40 something page long story - that I have been working on since spring... was lost.

The funny thing is, this is the second time this has happened to me. I once wrote a story when I was younger that I was very proud of. It was a similar length about a cat named Samantha and her friend Rabbit. It was lost, too.

Both times were equally disappointing. And it is pretty dang disappointing.

Sarah

Good news!!

Watch the video!

Yay!!

With love and peace,
Sarah

Things I don't understand

why we're learning chemistry in biology
why it's warm in October
why my room is always hot, no matter what
why i'm sleepy all the time
why it's too early to sing Christmas songs
why my mother doesn't like to watch the a movie more than once
why my fingers are fat
why i can't crochet to save my life
why i'm suddenly nervous about going to Netherworld on Saturday
why Maria doesn't have a Twitter (unless I'm mistaken)
why my father is obsessed with shooting squirrels
why everyone at my school thinks my dad is so cool
math