April

We didn't really do anything significant this month. Everyone is just working on school work and so we are just slugging along.

Caitlyn attended a school musical with her friends before Easter. Emily decided to take a break and tag along.

On Easter morning, Emily played the postlude music after church. She wasn't having a really good day so she was pretty upset about her performance. The beauty of doing the postlude music though is that people are getting ready to leave or standing around in the back visiting with people so it is a pretty low pressure environment, but Emily was still pretty upset about it.

Caitlyn did the postlude music the week after that. She had not had to do it before so she was a bit nervous about it. She did great though. She was supposed to do two songs and ended up throwing in an extra as the chapel had not cleared out that much yet.

We are super proud of the hard work both the girls have put into their organ practice over this last year. They have made great strides.
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Emily's AP Physics class has a big year end assignment that all the kids have been looking forward to all year...the cardboard box races. They make boats out of cardboard boxes and race them across the pool. I think it is supposed to coincide with their lesson on buoyancy or something. They had some scheduling problems though and so when the race finally got scheduled, they only had a week to work on their boats. Emily stayed after school all week to work on it with her group.

Some of the other classes are able to go out and see the races if their teachers take them so Caitlyn got to see several of the races.

Emily's group's boat won for their class race! They really had the best boat out there but they had some problems with their oars so they didn't win by a landslide. They did make it to the finals though. All the winners in each period then races each other to see who the overall winner is. You have to race across the pool, touch the other side and race back. During the first race, a lot of the boats were found not to be seaworthy. They either flipped over or sunk at the start. This time, their biggest problem was the boats getting in the way. So after getting to the other side of the pool, a bigger boat blocked their way from touching the far side of the pool and then a second boat ran into them and they flipped over. They did not make it back to the other side of the pool.

I guess they get certain points for having a seaworthy vessel that can't make it across the pool and back. Then the class winners get extra points. The winner in the final race gets even more.

Emily was a little disappointed at not getting to finish in the final race but she had a lot of fun. She will be taking IB Physics next year and they are supposed to get to race again. She is already looking forward to it.

Luckily, Caitlyn got to see a lot of the races and she was able to record her races for us and we even got to see some of her competition.