Pasha the Porcupine

Instead of studying my Sight Text#10, which contains only three words I didn't know (hooray! finally I don't feel inadequate in one of these lessons), I played with my friend O, who told me about an experience she had recently helping interpret a remedial driver's ed class into Russian.  It was about six hours of simultaneous interpreting, and since she had moved to the US before getting her drivers license, she never learned driving and road safety terms in Russian.  She said it went pretty badly, with a lot of skipping parts to keep up, some pictionary sessions to illustrate car parts she didn't know how to say, and some of the Russians offering different terms or ideas for what the idea was that she was trying to communicate.  It sounded hilarious and terrible at the same time.  O isn't a trained interpreter, and this was just a nice offer she made to help out some folks who had already failed their driving exam several times, so the pressure for perfection just wasn't there, thankfully.

And we wrote and illustrated a children's story (see below), because what better activity could you possibly choose to do when you're avoiding homework?