New friends

This afternoon, as arranged though I wasn’t sure if it was a confirmed arrangement, Genevieve came to visit so the boys could play. Kyle came too, as he had to drive her down (driving stick-shift on the ‘wrong’ side of the road on these roads is just a little too much to master so quickly for G). Kyle and Emma, their 15-year-old daughter, had intended to walk down the road with their cameras, but we all got chatting as soon as they were here, and so they never got away. Nick could join us for a good chunk of the afternoon too, leaving for about two hours to teach guitar during mid-afternoon. We yackety-yacked the whole afternoon on so many topics I couldn’t even name them all, including photography, churches, homeschooling, insects and music. The boys disappeared and we didn’t see them the rest of the afternoon, other than the times that they were running through the lounge (though this was soon prohibited) in a game of tag. Benjamin is 10 and Samuel is 6. I questioned Caleb briefly as to the success of the afternoon, and apparently they formed a democracy in their games instead of having a tyranny (he could explain this after we learned about those forms of government in school this morning, dealing with Greece). School and education definitely have their uses.