In Intercultural Communication it’s time for me to give my talk. I have a power point, which I know is no great thing, but I will also bring up the Las Artes website for the class. Today I put some final touches on my elliptical porch light. I will carve shapes in it next Monday to let light shine out. Maybe lizards.
Before you know it, school will be out. What am I going to to next year? I wonder.
Grants and the Honors Project.
I might have to take a pass on my delicious grant money this term. Dang!!
It’s been hard for me to keep up this term anyway, I don’t even have time for tea tree oil for acne if I wanted it.
what with the house in Ajo and all the dental trips to Mexico, I have not had time to finish the project and develop the presentation and build the powerpoint. Egad!!! and it’s all due Thursday. What are the chances that I’ll pull it off?
Slim and none, that’s what the chances are.
I saw a painting that I absolutely love at the Curley School Artist Colony last week at the wonderful wedding reception. It makes me happier than a multivitamin, but in a strange way. I like art that evokes a feeling, an emotion.
Look at this.
So in the Ajo newspaper this week, the artist was shown with the painting (a self-portrait) and talked about the intensely hard times she was facing at that time.
Why am I so bad with remembering names? Well, as soon as I get my hands on her name, I will tell you.
That’s a fierce painting.
I have some pic of the dogs this weekend that are pretty good.
It was hot today, but the last couple of days were real nice, not squinty hot to where you need eye cream like today.
Peanut
Hot Dogs
Every time I get home from Ajo I think I’m never going to leave this quiet, cool, house again. But you know, I have a dental appointment Friday and Saturday, so I guess that means I only get to stay here four more days before I’m off and running again.
This will be just me and the two little dogs, Fay and Pnut, in the little car. Oh well, pretty soon we will just be staying and staying in Ajo, as soon as Dear One actually retires in July.
The yellow blooms of the brittle brush covered the mountain where we walk the dogs, and they all looked so pretty with the yellow background I shot a bunch of pics.
wiley coyote
Hank the Cow Dog
I need to take pics of all the pretty prints I have made in Printmaking Class. We use a big roller press at school, but I have found out that you can rub an iron over the print plate to ink the paper. Actually, it’s a disk covered with bamboo, looks pretty neat. I will have to buy one.
I had thought maybe I could roll the car over, you know, sandwich the plate and print between boards and drive over it.
This summer I will play with both methods.
In forty five minutes I will take to the track for my team, Artists Against Cancer. It’s pretty exciting out there, I just dropped off the easy up and some camp chairs, not exactly office furniture, but we will decorate the easy-up with our tie-dyed tee shirts and tie dyed scarves.
Oh yeah, and ceramics, too.
We go from six in the evening to six in the morning. We have Christmas lights to string along the easy up.
It’s going to be fun!!
I volunteered to be the first walker and to help set up. Frankly, I don’t know how late an oldster like me can hope to stay awake, but I’m game to try!
So I might donate one of my bread pans with bread in it. I am making a light cover for the proch, looks like I have tried to make everything but sinks out of clay. And had great fun doing it.
I think I will make a mock sour dough bread. I don’t have the time to make a real sour dough starter before tomorrow, but I can use yogurt and yeast, a little salt and it tastes like sourdough.
I might bake one to eat with my team and one to sell in the hand made ceramic bread pan.
I have seeds and nuts, so I’ll make a real whole grain bread. I froze a bunch of strawberries today, they’ve been on sale here, and I might make a home made jam or spread with some of them.
Shop girls is a program that empowers Ajo women and girls through carpentry tool mastery and project creation in a positive, instructive, non critical environment that fosters success.
The cost of not having programs like this can’t be measured with a barcode scanner.
Women and girls who participated in the past two years’ program felt empowered by project success and the enthusiastic camaraderie of an all female environment, some also began to think entrepreneurially about personally created product as an opportunity for income.
In a small town like Ajo, any industry would be welcome.
We got our home insurance quotes online for our house in Ajo, but this week end I volunteered to be the first walker Saturday in our fund raising group at school. Our group, Artists Against Cancer has already raised almost one thousand dollars for cancer research. We’re pretty excited. We have tie-dyed scarves and T-shirts to sell, will do face painting, caricatures, and keep selling pottery.
I’m a little confused about the exact schedule because what is posted as the times seems to conflict with what I had been told, but I have the whole week end open and I will find out for sure today.
The film was called ‘Preschool in Three Cultures’, and it showed an average day in preschool for Chinese children, Japanese children and U.S. children.
It was a pretty interesting film and you didn’t need a finger pulse oximeter to tell that the classroom was paying attention.
Japan, China and U.S preschools were filmed for comparison. There were a lot of similarities; the age of the children, their voices and energy, and differences.
The first thing that struck me was the Japanese preschooler mixed age play, the older girls frequently lugged around a toddler all day, it was good to see and probably makes for some good babysitters when those girls get old enough. It not only defines the role of the female, but also clearly demonstrates to the girls what having a baby means, I wonder what the teen pregnancy rate is in Japan. The calisthenics indoctrinates the child into a routine he or she will continue into their jobs, if I remember correctly.
The Chinese children training their bodily functions to operate on the schedule of the group shows how deeply ingrained the collective values are in China. Collectivism isn’t something thrust upon them, but rather the sensible way to do things from their point of view.
The children in all three cultures are taught to pick up after themselves by different methods. It seemed like the Chinese and Japanese children had already learned the lesson on picking up after yourself before the cameras got there, whereas the U.S children were just learning this lesson.
The ‘free’ time for the U.S. children was more structured than it seemed, as the group size was predetermined (no more than 3), as was the regular time slot, and clean up was insisted upon before other activities commenced, so there is quite a bit of structure there, just no direct lessons.
Conflict resolution is quite different in Japan than it is in the U.S., with Japanese teachers much more willing to let the kids work out their aggressions unfettered while the U.S. teachers got involved and imposed their will (you need to clean up before you participate in any further activities).
In China the issue never even came up.
Las Artes GED Program in Ajo, Arizona is great!
I am writing a grant for Honors Class this term, and I am making it target on the kind of grant this program needs.
Hoping for success.
Operating in close contact with the International Sonoran Desert Alliance, the make tile murals for sale locally. It wouldn’t take too much to add functional pottery and sell globally to what they have set up already.
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We got the front bedroom finished and I moved the bed in today (promptly took a quiet nap since the dogs were outside … naps probably are one of the top acne treatment in the world, I woke up an hour later, acne free!), and moved the dresser in. Next week I will put the drawers in. No, not next week, next week I have the Artist Against (I said against, not for) Cancer Race For the Cure. We, together, have raised almost $1,000.00 already.
I didn’t take pics yet of the new room, but I will next time.
What a great time I had in Ajo this week-end. I went to the reception for Morgana and Aaron’s wedding. Morgana is a teacher at Las Artes in Ajo, Az. That is a non-profit school for getting the GED cert, ages 14 to 24. She’s a great teacher and the kids really blossom in that school. They are in the process of adding lunch and a cooking school, maybe with muscle milk reviews.
They met in the Peace Corps in Africa and there was a bunch of their Peace Corp friends there from five years ago when they all served together in Africa.
Morgana's Wedding Cake
That’s all I need for an anxiety depression treatment. The wild flowers are all purple, yellow, orange and the ocatillo is in full bloom, looking like lipstick rolled up top of those stick-like branches.
ocatillo in bloom
Arizona Desert
The bathroom wall, around the new shower, got dry walled, the trim around the new floor in the front bedroom got painted and nailed down, the weeds got picked and wild flower seeds got sprinkled in the front yard.
The Ajo house is very happy now that we found a good house insurance, and we have a good life insurance rate on each other ,too. The house feels very secure.
new baseboard
Cattle Dog
Next Friday I have an appointment with a dentist just across the border. I need a cleaning, which will probably be a treatment for bad breath that is welcomed by all.
The cleaning and exam is only $65.00 U.S. and if I need an x-ray it is another $10.00.
Try to beat that with your copay. HA!
I found the ad in the Ajo Copper News newspaper, and the gal on the other end of the line spoke perfect english.
They are closed this Friday due to the Christian holiday, but I can wait.
The Curley School and Las Artes have a ceramic studio where they make wonderful tiles, and I’m hoping to get in there and start a line of functional pottery to sell. Their funding for the GED program got cut in half, so I think the income would be welcome.
We are going tomorrow, because today is my Friday and Dear Heart is taking tomorrow off.
It’s not fully a Black Friday
The Dogs love Ajo.