The fair

Just brings back sooo many memories!








-Misty

Summer fun

I have been so busy with school that I have not done mich with the kids this summer, but I am making it up to them, hopefully.


-Misty

Jane has a talk today and she was practicing on the way to church this morning. Skyler and Adam stayed with Auntie last night so it is just the girls.


-Misty

I won

My 20 page paper won first place, I am so excited. I worked really hard on it, and I am really happy about this recognition.




-Misty

Finally

I turned in the final draft of my 20 page research paper today. It was on imprisonment for debt in 1830. I have been so busy this summer, I am excited for a break. Only 8 classes left to graduate. That makes me happy.

-Misty

Relief

I had signed up to take 3 classes this summer so that I could take 4 in the Fall and Spring and graduate in May. It was brutal and I was scared I would flunk something for sure, with the kids home all summer. Late Sunday night I decided to check my classes for some reason and realized one of the classes I signed up for I did not need and it was the last hour I could drop and get my money back. I am so relieved but that means I will have to take 5 classes this fall.

-Misty

Ataturk

The founding father of modern day Turkey is Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. At the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1922 he became president of the Turkey.
I know it is crazy that the Ottoman Empire existed in the 20th century.
He began to modernize Turkey. He did away with mandatory Islamic schooling, outlawed the wearing of headscarves, changed


their religious day from Friday to Sunday. Began emacipation for woman. He was given the name Ataturk which means 'Father of Turkey' in 1935 for all he did for the Turkish people.
He is idolized in Turkey, everywhere you go, you will see pictures of this man who changed the outcomes for woman in a Muslim country.