My dad left for Afghanistan over a week ago and I miss him so much! I have a lot of activities to keep my mind off of the whole deployment. I like to do pottery, dancing and acting, and also homeschool activities.
One of my favorite things to do is pottery. I get to use as much of my imagination as I want. I use the potter's wheel and also hand-build. I am working on a great hand-building project for my dad that I hope to send to him as a Christmas present. One of the techniques I am using is rolling out the clay on the slab table to make it flat. Another technique is cutting out objects, shapes, and letters that I will score and slip to bond the clay together. My favorite technique is sgraffitto. Sgraffitto is where you brush a layer of glaze or slip on to a piece of clay and carve out a design or picture. The project for my dad will have several of the things we like to do together in sgraffitto.
I love to dance and act. I take several dance classes and am also a member of the Company at my theater. In Company, we are working on the play called The Love for Three Oranges. I play three characters: Clown #1; the wind spirit, Farfarello; and the princess, Ninetta. We are also working on a few songs for our Showcase. We will be singing "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat" and "Luck Be A Lady" from the musical Guys and Dolls, and also "C'mon Everybody" from All Shook Up.
Homeschooling is really fun because I get to learn about whatever I want. I just finished learning about the Vikings. I was really surprised to find out that hundreds of artifacts have been discovered and none of the helmets discovered had horns. I've always heard that Vikings had horns on their helmets. I am about to start reading "The Landing of the Pilgrims", just in time for Thanksgiving. My dad made a unit study about Afghanistan for me so I can learn all about the country he is in, so I have that to do also.
I am really excited about all the things I am doing this year, but I am really sad my dad isn't here to see it all. I will send him lots of letters and videos for him
to watch. I hope I get to skype him a lot too!
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