86 years in the making...

Incredible...simply incredible.

Yay!!!

That's all I have to say about my Sox...I'm almost speechless. I want to dance in the streets with the rest of the Bostonians!!

Sunday, in Yosemite
We spent the day in Yosemite, hopping in and out of the cars as often as we could to see the sights and take a zillion pictures. The Italian kids seemed to have a great time, and we were all pretty exhausted by the time we got home! A great day...

October 20, 2004 12:04am EST

I just have one thing to say...

esreveR ehT esruC!!

That's it. Have a great day. :-)

P.S. yay Boston!!

Buon giorno!

Yes, it's that time of year. I'm so excited! For the last six months I've been looking forward to this day, and for the last two months I've been planning for it. The tour for the Italian students is ready to go, and finally today they are arriving. God is good in how He has provided for this experience. There are 18 students and 2 teachers who will be staying in our little town, and up until yesterday I still had one student who didn't have a host family! Normally this would cause me to stress just a bit--but God had already provided a place for the second teacher this past Friday (which I thought to be very late timing...but in all reality it was perfect, no doubt), and I was certain He would bring to me another great family for this final student. Sure enough!
The next two weeks are going to be crazy for me...we have taken in one of the teachers and it is my responsibility to make sure she has a good time in California! Stefania will spend two weeks in our home as our guest and see what it's like to live and work in America. She will come with me to the high school each day and spend some time in our classes. As I found out last April, school here in the states is very different from that in Italy...I couldn't begin to describe it, so I'm certain they will be surprised and excited about all of the new things they see. I have also scheduled a few short trips for the group, to Columbia, Hearst Castle, Kings Canyon National Park, and Fresno State. For all my hard work I will be able to attend the trips to Hearst Castle and Fresno State...yay!
Off to the airport...

Baseball is not for babies

Red Sox.

Wild Card.

Need I say more???

Apparently, I need to say more. You see, the game is baseball. We call it a game, but everyone knows it is really much more than that. It's serious business. It's competitive. It's cut-throat. It's life-changing. In some cases it turns the best of friends into enemies...yes, you read me right...it's that serious.

Let's say, for instance, that someone is a Red Sox fan. And this someone has a good friend who likes the Yankees (really, you have to consider what they were thinking, trying to be friends in the first place). Well...the two teams have always disliked each other, it goes back to the days of the great bambino...but still today, the unrest remains. Usually it's fairly easy for the two fans to get along; the Yankees tend to have a great season and the BoSox just barely miss the playoffs. During these past few years though, things have changed a bit for those Boston boys. Just last Friday when the Red Sox clinched the series with a home run in the 10th by David Ortiz, I was--I mean, the Red Sox fan was so excited that she called the Yankee fan-friend to share the excitement with him. Not a good move. He wasn't excited at all. He wasn't happy to hear the news from the Boston fan. He only took the time to remind the Boston fan how much he actually loathes her favorite team. What else are friends for?

Well, it looks as though this year will, in fact, divide friends. You may not think it's that serious...but this is baseball and it's October. It is that serious. The reason for this division begins tomorrow night. The Yankees and the Red Sox play in the american league championship series (ALCS). This is it. Only one team can advance to the World Series. Only one friend will be happy. Will the curse finally be broken? We'll see.

Let's just agree now that the winning team friend won't spend the rest of October rubbing it in.