Thank You Ms. Strauss and Ms. Szafran!

To Ms. Szafran and Ms. Strauss, thank you SO MUCH for everything!! We've all had a great week. From the ropes course at the Browne Center and visiting the Mary Baker Eddy Library to flying our kites and eating s'mores, everything we've done this week has been very fun. Without you two, we never would have been able to do any of this stuff, and our summer reading books would probably be gathering dust somewhere. So once again, thanks a million for everything you've done for this group!

- A Pelham High Adventurous Bibliophile

Browne Center

Whew!

The ropes course at the Browne Center at UNH Durham was a smashing success for the second year in a row. The Phabbers, including Ms. Strauss and me, were joined but Ms. Morse's Summer School students, volunteers, and I. A.'s in a day-long experience that centered around team-building, friendship, self-discovery, responsibility and FUN!!


We started discovering what it required to get all of us through the course safely--communication, trust, and derring-do. We did a blindfolded walk-around on platforms and ramps, trusting ourselves and each other to be lead to the next platform without falling.

We experienced the Flying Squirrel, an adventure in physics, flying, and anti-gravity.





We walked up logs, and discovered new things about ourselves and what we can do. Fantastic job, Team!!!

josh

Yesterday everyone went to Boston unfortunately I didn't feel good and over slept so I stayed home. I heard that it was fun and a great trip even though it rained all day and they were walking around outside. While I was at home I just sat around doing my book report which is almost done I have to write a paragraph on my experiences with love and friendship and I have to make up five think questions. I have most of it done and I just want to get it done and over with because it is really annoying. I like the book but I don't like having to do a report on it during our summer vacation.

Day at Boston

So yesterday we went to the Mary baker eddy library and the Boston public library. In the Mary Backer Eddy Library we learned how everyone was inspired by what work she has done. Then Second we took a tour through a huge world wide glob, it tout us how the world is change everyday. The Boston public library was very interesting because i didn't know how much work there was done to make it and how many famous people helped out to make the morels on the walls through out the building. After we were done taking the tours of the two library's we went to the Prudential building for ice cream but i got a smoothie instead of ice cream but it was still good. although it was raining all day it was still a great day of going to Boston.

Boston yaaaaaaaaaaaaay

So what we did yesterday is we went to the Mary Baker Eddy library and Boston public library. We went in to the giant globe at the Mary Baker Eddy library. We also learn about her life and stuff. Then we walk in the poring rain to the Boston Public Library. Then we learned about the different areas of the Boston Public Library and how each artist chose his theme of the rooms. Than after that we went to the prudential center to get ice cream. After we were going to do the book crossing thin but we ran out of time and we went home with good weather and as the others slept and Greg listen to his Ipod I read my book.

Seabrina

Yesterday was totally awesome. We went to the Boston Public Library and The Mary Baker Eddy Library and Mapparium . I loved the Mary Baker Eddy Library because we got to go in a huge globe thing and the acoustics in there we so amazing because it was glass. I went to this Library twice now and it was still amazing. We also went to the Boston Public Library and the architecture is amazing there. Then we went to release books into the wild it was really cool . All we did was leave our books on a table or bench for someone else to find and start reading it.

Kayla

Yesterday, we went to Boston and visited the Mary Baker Eddy Library and the Boston Public Library. I was VERY excited because we found out what the "thing" is!! (I heart the "thing"!) I loved the Hall of Ideas, and I just wanted to stay there the whole time and follow the words across the floor. But then when we went on the tour, I learned all about Mary Baker Eddy. She was such an interesting person. And the Boston Public Library was so BIG! I could have just stayed there for hours and read and read and read. I would like to visit the courtyard again, because it was so peaceful and serene. I also got to release my book yesterday. I felt like the book fairy. =] I'm hoping my shoes will dry out someday... maybe... possibly... But aside from the rain, yesterday was very awesome, and I'm thinking I would like to go back and visit those places again on my own time.

Overnight Loan

Items needed baseball, pen , and life

1. Library go out side
2. Go to the back field
3. Then jump 21 times in the air
4. Go to the baseball field
5. Take two steps behind the backstop
6. Just look at the big tree
7. After go back to the pitchers mound throw a baseball up in the air
8. Then when your done with that go to the open gate near the left side of the field and go down the trail
9. Then look down and your not there yet
10. Go back the baseball field and once again and look for a v
    
11. Then you are done
    

PROFESIONAL

1. GO OUT SIDE AND WALK TO THE BACK OF THE SCHOOL
2. LOOK FOR 2 BLUE DUMPSTERS LOOK AROUND THEM
3. LOOK AROUND THE DUMPSTERS
4. CHECK IN HOLES OR UNDERNEATH STUFF

Pelham High School IMC

Go out the door near the English Department.
Turn right, walk towards the tennis court.
Follow the path around to the left of the tennis courts.
Keep following the path towards the new football field.
As you start to descend down towards the new football field, watch for a dirt path to your right.
Turn right down the dirt path. Watch out for goblins and poison-dart toads. Rumor has it a python has been seen slithering along under the leaves- sing loudly to ward off evil spirits, wayward bears, and the occasional mutant mushroom.
When you (almost) trip on a log in the middle of the trail, find the letterbox by looking to the left of that log.
Stamp in, grab the hitchhiker if it is there, read the clues, and write your guess in your journal.
Leave the letterbox, shut tightly, right where you found it, not visible.
Good luck!

Career/College

I am hiding in a place where company would not enter; where the help would come and go; a place where formal guests would never see.

I am hiding under something; beside something; and beneath something.

I am hiding where one should not hide during inclement weather, particularly if one had a neighbor who rode a bicycle and cackled while traveling through flat roads criss-crossing corn fields.

I am hiding under the first. I see wood and dirt and feel rain, but little wind. I hear man-made thunder staccato above me every ninety minutes, and the door high above me sighs as traffic comes and goes.

Sometimes there are slugs; nothing grows beneath me, but that is not to say that nothing could. I am nestled and hunkered, waiting to be found.

parent signature * request *

1. From the library go outside in the parking lot.

2. Walk to the pitching mound of the softball field.

3. Find something white near you . its not the bases.

4. its near something that goes up.

5.People step on it.

Shelflist

From the library, enter the hallway, turn to the left, and exit outside. Walk in an easterly direction until you reach the fence. From there, follow the trees until you can't go any further. Turn to your felt and follow the encef. Are you still stumped? :)

Withdrawn

Start at the library. Go out of the library and turn right. Go down the hall and turn right again. Keep going north until you reach the gym turn left and go through the cafe and the doors toward the portables. Go to the gate and through it until you get to the picnic table and stop. Then take 5 steps north and look right.

Welcome Phabbers!

Welcome back, Greg and Seabrina, and welcome to Kayla, Josh, Kevin! Yesterday was a great day at the Browne Center! Lots of grit, determination, courage, and laughs! (and bugs . . . .and bugspray, gasp). Great job working with the other students who joined us, and playing Alaskan baseball. Reading, letterboxing, bookcrossing, librarythinging, and smoring (not snoring . . .) are on the agenda for this week. Hopefully we'll get some wind and go fly our kites! Tomorrow is our Boston field trip to the Boston Public Library and the Mary Baker Eddy Library. . .we'll release a few books, and eat ice cream and have a blast! Read on . . . . . - Ms. Strauss

Joshs Summer Reading

Over the summer I am reading Big Papi by David Ortiz it is a great book. I get to learn how he lived as a kid and how he started his career in the major leagues. He first stated out on the Marlins but then he got traded to the Twins after that he got fed up with the way the Twins manager was treating the players so he quit and joined the BOSTON RED SOX. I have only gotten that fare so I tell more when I post another one.

Seabrina

Yesterday was utterly fun fun fun. We went to UNH for a ropes course and we went on this thing called the island and one person was blindfolded and had two seers which were there to guide them through the island safely. There job was also to help the person come down to the ground safely if they were to fall. Then the rules changed a bit everyone who was blindfolded was now a seer and everyone who was a seer was now blindfolded. During this experience everyone learned to trust one another and to listen to each other. Then we went on this pulley system called the Flying Squirrel. It was so much fin. During this there was this long rope which was like 40 feet in the air and the other people where at the other end and when you said go you were flung in the air then stopped then after that stop you started to dangle for a bit then were let down it was amazing. Tomorrow we are going to the Mary Eddy Baker Library and the Boston Public Library.

Josh

During the field trip to the Browne center I got to climb up a big tree. And i also got to launch people into the air by strapping them to a rope and running away from them that was called The Flying Squirrel. I was the anchor on the flying squirrel which means i had to lead everyone in the right direction and make sure that no one fell. I was tied on to the rope and made sure no one fell when we were running and when we were letting the people back down to the ground. I thought the day was fun but I wish we could of had more time to do stuff.

Kayla

How is friendship and love related to what we've been doing? Well I think we're definitely making new friends this week. Yesterday at the ropes course at the Browne Center, we all had to work together to keep each other safe. The people there said that we were all good at working together, and that was important to what we were doing.

We've had so much fun so far!! I can't wait to see what the rest of the week has in store for us! =]

Greg

yesterday I went to the UNH ropes course/Browne Center. I climbed different tress then last year it was fantastic!!! one of the courses I did was the Flying Squirrel it was when you are attached to a rope on your chest and the rest of the people grabbed the other end of the rope and ran the opposite way and I flung up in to the air it was really fun. The other course we did is that we had to climb up a huge log to an other tree and hug it. You had to have really good balance to go up that log. The day was spectacular