The Slow Flow of Info

Tomorrow is school science day and I decided that my mini-lesson would be focused around rockets.  So today after school I drove around collecting my materials, and when I got home I tried out the water rocket I'd built out of a two-liter bottle, a valve stem and a bicycle pump.  I pumped the water filled bottle as fast and as hard as I  could for about thirty seconds before it took off, disappearing into the sky.  I'd purposely set it up between a tree and my house so that it wouldn't fly into the street, but sure enough, about a minute later I heard from the street behind me a PONG.......... PONG... PONG PONG PONGPONGPONGCRUNCH!  I turned around to see a red car driving away, leaving one of my four two-liter bottles completely flattened.  I immediately heard another car door open right behind me. 

"Wow, that was pretty impressive," said the pizza guy who was getting out of his car with my dinner.  

"Thanks," I told him, and then paid three bucks to buy an extra Coke two liter from him to replace my sixty-seven cent Sam's Club pancake. 

At least it works!

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I wish I could give you some more info about the JFMF trip, but there's none to share.  I've been waiting for my travel information, and it hasn't come yet.  I've been waiting for my listserv to start, and my email box has been empty.  I've been waiting to hear from my school district about whether I made the roster to present my Japan experience at this year's professional development conference, but I've heard nothing.  And now, my new friend Christina has gotten a package from her local Japanese Consulate...  I have another reason to stalk the local mailman!