pixie's windsurfing

windsurfing is so much fun. i am not quite as good as my dad yet, but i will keep trying. my mom and dad bought me my first windsurfer and i have gone on the water for 4 days in a row. one day was really windy. my dad couldn't believe i could sail right over the big waves. hoping to do some windsurfing on whitefish lake this summer.

elementary school in los barriles

today was the big day. i finally went to school in los barriles. i was really scared and it was really hard. the teacher didn't show up to school so one of the moms was the substitute. she only spoke spanish. my english speaking friends amanda, jordan and giovani helped me, but it was scarey and hard. the kids were finishing a week of testing. the test my third grade class took was 30 spanish words that needed to be put in alphabetical order. my mom said it was a great brain challenge and would help me learn more spanish and work on my dictionaray skills. i was afraid i wasn't doing it right. i only missed one word. we went to school at 8:00 and had a snack break at 10:30. my mom came to check on me and brought me choc. milk and cheetos. we jumped rope and counted in english and spanish. one girl got up to 60! i left school early because i didn't want to stay until 12:30. maybe i will go to school here next year, but i need to work on my spanish. the first picture on the blog is the outside of the classroom, the second photos is the inside.

we took a long drive and a short hike just north of el cardinal to find these indian rock paintings. my mom was amazed that the colors of the rocks and the pigments are very similar to her own paintings in wax... rust, ochre, black and white!

quesadillas and puzzels with rachel

this is my friend rachel. she will be nine march 18. we licked the pieces of quesadilla so that the other person wouldn't take ours to eat. rachel is lealving los barriles tomorrow but we might visit her family in the gorge this summer. we had a bonfire last night and my mom made a cake with pancake mix, marshmallows and strawberry jam.