As part of our social studies class, we decided to go to a political debate at Mars Hill University. There we saw Michele Presnell and Dean Hicks answer questions posed by a one of the universities professors. She had collected and they had all pre-approved the questions from students and faculty from the school and by members of the community. Presnell is trying for a second term for 118th district seat in the N.C. House of Representatives and Hicks is challenging. We were greeted by two tables decorated for each of the candidates, a supporter of Dean Hicks actually came up to us and asked if we would be interested in volunteering. It was at an auditorium at the university with three podiums on the stage (as you can see in the picture above). There was quite a lot of people there, at least more then I expected. I noticed a lot of graduate students were there, but whether or not it was for a class, I do not know. The audience was very involved, cheering at statements and booing at times. They first started with a two minute introduction each. Then a question was asked with a two minute answer from one side, a two minute response from the other side and a one minute rebuttal for each. The questions covered a lot of ground ranging from fracking, education, jobs, medicate, voter ID and registration, economic development and more. There was a total of eight questions asked, four for each side. I thought that the crowd supported Dean Hicks more, because of a lot of collage students there, especially when Presnell brought up the topic of same sex marriage in which she was against. Hicks said that he thought people had a right to be who they wanted to be. Aside from that Presnell had a pretty compelling argument, though her mean-spirted discrimination some what ruined it. Dean Hick's main argument was education, which he wanted to improve, though his facts were less precise then Presnell. One of her ideas that I thought was compelling was trying to get wifi to a lot of mountain homes. I thought this was good because even though her stance on education wasn't that strong at least by giving internet to people, they will have an easier time conducting their own education if need be. It was a great experience and I'm glad we went.
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I realized that I've only been posting pictures of activities we do on bright and sunny days, so here are some for a rainy day! We love the sound of the raindrops on the roof of the cabin. It is especially soothing at night and most days it seems only to rain at night. Well, since we had an unusually rainy morning today, we took the opportunity to stay at home, do some reading and catch up on home projects! Project #1 was Room Clean Up! Here is the before and after of the kiddos rooms. They did this all by themselves...not bad for kids who are learning to pick and clean up after themselves after being spoiled by kind housekeepers in all the other places we've lived in! In case you're thinking Rigel's room doesn't look any different, it does! He just hadn't got around to putting back the cleaned bedsheets yet! :-) Project #2 was being crafty. With the arrival of fall, and seeing how people around this area decorate their front yards and porches to reflect this, we've been inspired to make our own fall craft projects! (More details on Preeti's page). Ri helped me make a fall wreath with twigs and branches that we found in the woods. I also added a corn hanging made from corn given to us from a neighbor, which I had hung to dry. How do you like the front porch?One of the best parts of our trip to the South was going to Huntsville, Alabama and seeing the Space Campers from SAS, Shanghai! The Space center is an awesome place and we all learned so much about missions in space, rockets and missiles, geo caching and lots more! |
The Happer'sHi! This is Preeti, Jim, Rigel, Luna and I (Aneka). We have recently left our home in Shanghai, China to Somewhereinthemountains, North Carolina. Preeti and Jim are both international school teachers and Rigel, Luna and I are homeschooled. Categories
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