I'm just gonna DO IT...

All this talk about travel lately. And young travel even.
http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/12-09/giving-teens-the-freedom-to-travel.html

http://www.wanderingeducators.com/intercultural-education/resources/tips-encouraging-success-and-responsibility.html


I finally said ok I will make it work. Brenda has been trying to find a way up to our French Canadian scouting friends that we met years ago at Kalahari. We see them every year (except for last year when they couldn't make it to the UWG.) Brenda and Melanie's oldest daughter, who is Brenda's age and speaks pretty good english, became friends. They also have a daughter who is Bret's age and one who is a little older than Marley. So it worked well that they would hang out at the water slides together. Melanie's younger two daughters didn't speak much english, and it was fun to learn from them.

 

Since meeting them, Brenda uploaded an app to her ipod to help her work on French basics, numbers, colors, days of the week, months of the year. But now that there seems like an end in sight, I bet we will see a more renewed interest in her French.

We found a free online website www.busuu.com which may help bridge some of her gap. We had put it aside for other things. But I will update when I can as to where she is in her plans to travel and mesh in with the french speaking Canadians.

So Melanie and I have decided that next summer will be enough time for me to make all the plans (you know, like getting a passport, and such) and they will be good to have her for a visit.

They scout through the summer. Their scouts is coed, and they do much of their work related to the water and boats. Plus their homeschool group meets through the summer too. It will be great to get them together and let Brenda finally experience what it is like somewhere other than here. It is a baby step anyway.

It is a two day trip of 8 hr driving a day to get there, or it is a two day trip of 10 hrs a day if we stop in NJ and visit some of our other UWG friends for a small driving break. I am considering taking this chance for me and my other girls to drive around up in that part of the US and see some sights as well...

The wheels are a turnin...