Tuesday was a fun day for Hunter! He had his first Mandarin lesson with Zhu Yang (Susan). She is a student at Vanderbuilt University who does Mandarin lessons on the side. What a GREAT teacher for Hunter. She is very kind and covers a lot of things during his lessons. She was impressed Hunter was so ambitious with taking on Mandarin for his foreign language and wanted to know why. He replied, "I like Chinese food."

Tuesday night we went to an informational meeting on the Ambassador Club for homeschoolers. This club does debate, impromptu speeches and a student senate. It is a great club that is held every Tuesday night. The kids do about 1 - 1 1/2 hours of learning and spend time with a mime instructor who works with them on non-verbal communication. Then we break for a potluck dinner, followed by another hour of apologetics. I think Hunter will get a lot out of it.

This club came at a great time. We have been reading about William Wilberforce - he spent a lot of time "foyning" with his friends. Foyning is a game of sorts where you and a group of other people compete to see who can make the group laugh the most by telling a good joke or making a witty comment. This is now all Hunter wants to do. He still has a hard time coming up with material.

Wednesday we got together with our friends from CA who moved to the Nashville area over the summer. It was so much fun for Hunter to get together with their daughter Allison who he went to school with in 1st grade. She also has a little brother, Thomas, who is full of energy. They spent the day swimming - it was 103 degrees. After a full day of swimming, Hunter laid on the couch from about 6pm until he went to bed - he had a little bit of a sunburn.

Today Hunter finished his poster on the Owl Monkey. He had to do a poster for an animal from South America and part of our study of South America. He did a great job finding information on the computer about the monkey and making a poster. I failed to bring scissors with me to TN, so we had to borrow some.

Hunter with his poster on the Owl Monkey