Week 4 in Review

Squeaks's Top 5:

1. Kicked off weekly Spanish practice with mi amiga, CR (coolest neighbor ever), with a couple of dramatic telenovela-inspired Destinos lessons and challenging vocab games. Cool sentence we created for this week's la Familia (family) theme: Mi cuñado es el otro hijo de mi suegro. (My brother-in-law is the other son of my father-in-law.)

2. Invigorating stroll to Pacifica pier with the folks on a sunny winter day. Rainbows straddling crashing waves; risk-taking fishermen violating the "no overhead casting" rule (duck!); crabbers measuring their scrambling catch with calipers, making sure to throw back the females -- as a little boy told me, "we can keep the boys but not the girls".
3. Dissonant -- but nonetheless awesome -- jam session with fellow learner guitarists. Once we get the hang of "down-down-up...up-down-up", we've got a girl praise band in the making.
4. Enriching first study of Tim Keller's Gospel in Life with our Friday night group. Psyched.
5. Good times..."experiencing" South America through AT's animated travel stories, and celebrating with new friends at PW's bridal shower.

The New York Times's Top 5:

1. President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.
2. Rest in peace, Mr. Jack LaLanne.
3. Suicide bombing in Domodeovo Airport in Moscow.
4. Murder of David Kato, the most outspoken gay rights activist in Uganda.
5. The Egyptian revolution.