School

Lisa mentioned that the course work she has been doing is equivalent of 40 credit hours. While they won't accept them as credit at Oregon or Oregon State they do accept them at several of the Californian state colleges. The school she is currently looking at is San Diego State which will accept the credits and also has online courses that she can take in working towards a degree.

She also has Advanced Spanish materials on the way. After that she would like to take German. She was looking forward to going to church again tonight and having dinner with friends there afterward.

Another Video

You might remember the video I made for Lisa a couple months ago and posted here. Well I told Tim that he was next. I spend quite a bit of time writing these blog entries about Lisa so everyone can stay up to date. I also am really proud of Tim; he is just a great kid and any Dad would be proud to have him as a son.

I tried to catch some of what makes Tim, Tim. He is a pretty laid back guy. Not lazy by any means but just doesn't the world get him down to much. So I tried to catch some of that in this video. Hope you like it!

Sand Storm

Life has been pretty uneventful aside from temperatures as high as 112. They all drink a lot of fluids. Recently they have also gone through some times of high humidity to compound the misery while the air conditioning in their room is broken.

Lisa said that last night Thursday night it rained followed by a huge sand storm Friday evening. Below is a picture of the storm from her room. You can see the sand starting to build up on the driveways below as well as darken the whole sky.

Lisa has been continuing to work on her "MCI's" which are required to advance. She recently finished the math course which she dreaded. I took a look at the math book while she was home recently and was impressed with the systematic and practical teachings. Made a lot more sense then any of the book I've had in high school or college. Lisa will soon start working on her Grey Belt, a part of the Marine Corp Martial Arts Program. She said she learned how to throw someone across the room using her hip. She made it sound like fun.

Salmon fishing

Lisa is home for a few days and we are on a charter boat this morning.



Iphone email sent courtsey of Zeke

Promotion

Lisa received a promotion to Lance Corpral today (forgive my spelling).

Iphone email sent courtsey of Zeke