Poetry Out Loud

Kaitlin competed in her high school's Poetry Out Loud competition on Wednesday. It is a scholarship competition, where you memorize two poems and recite them for judges and an audience. The winner moves up levels all the way to a national competition.   Kaitlin memorized "Bright Star" by Keats and "I Carry Your Heart with Me" by e.e. cummings.  Kaitlin worked hard on inflection and meaning and did a great job in the competition, taking second place overall.  Unfortunately, only the first place winner goes on to regions, so she was pretty disappointed about that. But there is something to be said about working at something, doing your best, and feeling proud of how you did.

Kaitlin is very forward thinking right now.  It's the last half of her Senior year and she is anxious to get on with her life, go out an explore the world and all that.  We are headed over to Snow College this week to do a campus visit and get the low down on housing and such.



A Month of No School

Jared is back to school tomorrow.  He has been a month out of school, first with Christmas break and then he was off-track.  He has filled that time mostly with playing minecraft and watching minecraft videos.  He also participated in a Boy Scout Pow Wow. The last three Saturdays he went and took classes.  He finished one merit badge and got a good start on the other three.  He also passed off his scout rank and is almost done with Tenderfoot.