Sept. 18
Too Long a Break!
We had a wonderful weekend at Ocean City, New Jersey. We rode bikes on the board walk, played in the arcades, and drove the go-carts. Oh, yeah, we also swam in the ocean a little. But we neglected the Spanish, as seems to be our custom. When we got back to El Sobrino del Mago tonight, I asked Mario a question about the book and he said, "Yo no sabe," which is a terrible mistake to make, sort of like, "I is" in English. But we kept at it for about 30 minutes and Mario started to loosen up and speak a little more and a little better. But there is a lot to do!
Once the boys were asleep, I wrote a review of two new books published by ediciones iamique in Argentina, Los libros no fueron siempre asi and El cine no fue siempre asi. They were nicely written books, full of good graphics and details, but definitely too factual to be interesting to my children at this point.
I scored my first outdoor goal of the season in my game on Sunday, and then had to leave early to take Gabriel to the Olympic Development Program tryout. Once again there were abou 120 players there, and they all seemed incredibly skillful for 11- and 12-year-old boys.