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having moved out of California, making a mission is one of those things I'm sad my kids won't do. Not because it is some great educational project, just one of those things I did, but they will not. No field trip to Yosemite, either.
Yosemite? We of course went to a mission, but it was only about half an hour from our house. A lot of schools go to the Santa Barbara mission, but I went to poor school. Seriously, my cousin's school had a chartered bus for his mission field trip. Man, but I hated the darn mission project. You know, the one where you have to build a mission. Yeah, I have absolutely zero artistic ability. Our teacher told us if we bought the kit the store sells we would get an automatic zero, but she didn't live up to that promise. Haha.
Little mission. First you learn about Father Serra who built the missions. Then you get on the bus and take a field trip to a mission. (San Jan Capistrano's is very cool.) Then you go home and find a shoe box and build your own little mission. Lots of paper mache. When I was a kid they all looked droopy and out-of-proportion. Nowadays, with the advent of helicopter parents, they become major productions. You can even get "mission kits" in the craft stores in CA it's such a big deal.
Seriously, that darn mission was the bane of my existence that year. Most people just buy the kit if the teacher allows it. If they didn't have the kits, I would have just taken a zero or my sister would have done it.
I did hear through the grapevine that one of our other neighbors (we call him..well, nevermind exactly what we call him but the words "creepy guy" are in there somewhere and everyone knows who you're talking about) got taken away on a stretcher yesterday by the rescue squad....all kinds of happenin's in "the 'hood"....
We are surrounded by older people so it seems we see the paramedics once every couple weeks. Our neighbor right next door seriously needs to be in assisted living. We worry about her constantly.
having moved out of California, making a mission is one of those things I'm sad my kids won't do. Not because it is some great educational project, just one of those things I did, but they will not. No field trip to Yosemite, either.
Well, maybe they will be lucky enough to go to RMNP? When mine was n middle school, one of the class trips was 3 days up there at the Y. Lots of fun.
"Creepy guy" isn't elderly - he's just creepy. He's overweight and hairy and walks around in the summer wearing 80's style parachute pants, a tank top and a bunch of turquoise jewelry - while walking a teeny tiny dog (which he never cleans up after). He just gives everyone the heebie-jeebies.
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Little mission. First you learn about Father Serra who built the missions. Then you get on the bus and take a field trip to a mission. (San Jan Capistrano's is very cool.) Then you go home and find a shoe box and build your own little mission. Lots of paper mache. When I was a kid they all looked droopy and out-of-proportion. Nowadays, with the advent of helicopter parents, they become major productions. You can even get "mission kits" in the craft stores in CA it's such a big deal.