Thursday February 24:

Well… I was the next one to get sick. Yesterday we went snorkeling in Sosua. We hired a boat to take us out to these reefs where there were thousands and thousands of fish. It was so amazing and there was fish of all kinds and sea horses, puffer fish and these really cool fish that are dark purple with dark bright blue on the rims of them since they kind of looked like someone flattened them.

Monday February 22:

nosotros vamos a la playa.

Sunday February 21:

Well… every ones sick! There’s a weird stomach virus going around and almost all of us have gotten sick. First my mom, then my dad, then Micah, then Allie and now who knows who’s next. Just hope it’s not me. Other than that it’s been raining for 3 days, and the Kirsh’s are leaving today.

Friday February 19:
For dinner we went to this place called Papi’s. Last time we went there my mom got food poisoning so now my dad has food poisoning (we didn’t know it was from there, but now its pretty clear). When we were walking there it started to pour rain and all of us were just in t-shirts and shorts, then when we got there they sat us at a terrible table. The table was in the very corner of the restaurant right behind the bathroom and garbage pile it smelled very… apatizing, the annoying part was that they had sat 2 families before us when we were waiting and then told us they didn’t. they finally moved us upstairs and there was these three people singing (there are people who walk around the beach singing to people when they are eating dinner) in the intervals of the songs he would quack. We couldn’t understand why he was quacking and were laughing so hard. Then the guy started quacking to Leah and this one time he snuck up behind her and made this huge quack and she screamed so loud, this woman turned around and kept saying “what happened?” but we were laughing to hard to answer. Then we were joking when we said to Leah “go quack her” but she actually did it (keep in mind we don’t know this lady). At the same time as all this was going on we were playing go fish which really didn’t work seeing as everyone was cheating. The lady got up to go to the bathroom and quacked Leah, who screamed again. Leah waited hiding near the staircase for when the lady was going to come up, to quack her. She didn’t come up and had went home or something so we had to leave. On the walk home theres this little bar with a dance floor and Leah went in and was dancing for about 5 minutes. It was probably one of the funniest m0ments of my life!

This is a picture of my baby cousin, Benjamin Reuben Ordower. He had his briss only a few days ago because he was jondist so they had to wait. Even thought he already has a name my dad is still convinced his name is Ari Olympis (Ari after him and Olympis for the Olympics)

This is a picture of me holding Benjamin and Micah annoying him. 

These are  past journals that I forgot to post. 

Thursday February 18:

Today we did a lot of homework and then went to the beach. It was a pretty uneventful day. In the evening we went to Vela where they have a really good game selection and played foozball and darts. when Adam was playing darts he somehow managed to get a dart stuck into his hand and had to go home to get it disenfected. While we were out for dinner my sister stayed home to babysit a little boy named Tristen. Tristen's dad's name is Sasha, their family has a lot in common with ours, he came here to escape the olympics, he lives in Whistler and built the Athletes Village...

Tuesday, February 16:

Today when we woke up we did our daily morning service, which takes about an hour, then we went to kits beach. The people who came yesterday’s names are Kirsh, Marta, Ben and Leah, they came with us to kite beach because their dad (Kirsh) kite boards. He didn’t have a very good start though because he launched it wrong and put a whole in it. Since it was not a very windy day people were flying pretty big kits (someone had a 17!). My dad and my brother Jed both had lessons. Last year Jed had Lilo as a teacher but this year he has someone else because Lilo broke 2 of his knuckles, last year my dad had this teacher who did this sport called underwater hockey. Under water hockey is basically where there’s a big pool with hockey lines marked on it, you have like a 1-foot stick and you swim and try and hit the puck in the net while holding your breath. At the beach we buried Leah and then sculpted her a big pregnant persons body.