Ms. Bowlin's Class, Flat Stanley is on his way!!!

Hello Class,
I'm so excited to be sending you a friend from Richmond, Kentucky, USA. If you want to know where that is, then you can click here.

or you can paste this link in your web browser:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=40475&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=35.821085,78.310547&ie=UTF8&ll=23.241346,-69.609375&spn=77.549924,156.621094&t=h&z=3&iwloc=addr&iwstate1=saveplace

My friend is Flat Stanley. He likes to spend a lot of time traveling to different places learning about all sorts of things. I think he is really going to enjoy visiting you all in Brazil. He will be arriving in about 10 days, but I wanted to introduce him to you so he's not a stranger. Here are some things we did right before he left...

Kentucky Fried Chicken is a favorite here in our state! A man made his recipe for frying chicken here and started a business.



I really like to eat the white meat!


Quilts are an Appalachian tradition is our state and some even represent stories. This one was hand made by a woman who lives on the farm I live on.



We get our local news through a newspaper called the Richmond Register. Stanley likes to read lots of different media.




Stanley wanted to ask you some questions about your classroom and activities you do in Brazil.

1. Are you from Brazil? What is the language there?
2. Where you born in Brazil?
3. What are some of your favorite things to do while in school? How long is your day?
4. What fun things do you do at home when you get out of school?
5. How do you get to school?
6. When are your holidays and how do you celebrate?
7. What is you favorite place to eat in Brazil? Is it at home or at another place?
8. How does your country get its leaders? Our president is Barak Obama, the first African American president. Here's his picture...



I look forward to receiving Stanley back in the states and seeing what he did while he was there with you in Brazil. Have fun!

Mrs. Martin
EKU/Waco Elementary

I NEED YOU AMANDA BOWLIN!!!

I have an assignment to do for methods that involves you and your Brasilian classrooom! Can I get something mailed to you fast and you have it returned by April 1? I'm going to have Marie facebook you too, but needed to know if the mail turn around is fast enough for this assignment. Its taking a paper doll and dressing him in native dress (or maybe doing pictures) and letting my class know what you all do...

Soo cute...

if you can call me that would be great. isn't blogging awesome

and high winds hate me

NO POWER! Again. I'm sitting at CiCi's in the barren Richmond Mall checking my email and complaining on blogger. Thank you Sarah for the invite, tell Jason that we could play mega-chess on that pink tiled floor! I'm going to eat another brownie whilst I wait for power...

dear sarah guin

I have been informed that I can no longer read your blog. I missed something on your blog but now I'm being shunned. I think you can fix this. As a matter of fact, I know you can. Blogger informs me that I need an invitation, sooooo...I'm waiting on that invite.

Nothing new is going on except full swing into practicum. I will be graduating on Dec. 19, 2009 at 8:30 a.m. I found out this week, or that's when its been planned. I don't think I'm going to walk for graduation. They are never fun to go to, so I'm really just thinking about all of you who read this. I'm sparing you, really. What a sweet friend I am :) What I most want for graduation is a job. Those make great grad gifts, so if any of you sweet friends I'm sparing will get on a site based council and give a sista the heads up, I'll buy YOU a gift certificate to the teacher's store instead! I should have majored in problem solving cause obviously I'm really good at that.

John and I are closing on the house Friday in Chattanooga and visiting Jerry Seinfeld next Friday night! As John and I were walking through Wal-Mart last night I asked him if it was ok that we not celebrate "Valentine's" and just live it up for Seinfeld weekend, to which he spoke a resounding "YES"! I'm really hoping I get to randomly run into Jerry while we're there. The first thing I'll say is "HELLLLLOOOOOOO" (love this episode)

I'm avoiding homework right now at 11:11 P.M. so I need to focus. yeah for warm springy weather and let's hope the storms coming through don't blow our power out again.

P.S. A warm congrats to Angie Hatterick on her newly expected. Babies are a great thing!!!