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What's all the fuss about pumpkin spice? People are obsessed! There are pumpkin spice lattes, frappuccinos, shakes, breads, muffins, candles, air fresheners and the list goes on... This flavor and scent goes with fall like sweater weather! While there is no pumpkin in pumpkin spice, it reminds people of the smell and flavors of pumpkin pie. The ingredients are cinnamon, ginger, cloves and allspice. You can buy pumpkin spice premixed or in individual ingredients. Carmel apple is another popular fall scent and taste....
Football Favorites
Fall fun means football. We are talking about the American game that is played with a ball that looks like this: 🏈.
Monday Night Football has had its ups and downs in ratings. Former Indiana Colts quarterback Payton Manning and his brother Eli are hosting the game on ESPN2. It is a Zoom-style show and you feel like your sitting around with Friends watching the game. Different guests appear and watch the game and comment. Here is a You Tube of the "best of". Don't worry if you can't follow all of the vocabulary...It's football vocabulary. Really, no one understands all these words! It is still fun.
Favorite Hamilton County Eats and Drinks
Amazing Mazes
You can laugh along as you find your way through a maize maze! Corn mazes are a Midwest thing. They are fun for the whole family and you can enjoy them at any age. Some mazes transition from fall fun to haunted fun as October wears on.
Virtual Indiana
- Haunted Indiana Live: Join this "scary" library event virtually!
International Bible Study: Tuesday, 9:30-10:30 AM EST, Zoom
We studied and talked Galatians 3. Paul dives into the weighty questions surrounding law, customs and behavior. We see people obsessed with following the word of law in a social sense and attaching attributes of good or bad to people based on how they adhere to the law according to how they judge people should act and behave. Ridged application of customs and even edicts are not
October 5: Join us as we discuss Galatians 4 where Paul addresses specific issues facing the church in Galatia. Do we have similar issues in our culture today?
International Friends: Tuesday, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM EST, Zoom
Our conversations this week covered corn mazes, pumpkin spice and other fall fun in Indiana and the Midwest.
October 5: No class or meeting.
Casual Conversation: Wednesday, 4:30 PM-6:00 PM EST, Zoom.
We talked about different strategies for learning English as well as had great conversations about pizzas and working in Indiana and in Mexico. We talked about our accents and how to be better understood by the people listening to us. And then there is Halloween. Here is a recipe for Banbanji for dinner.
October 6: Join the free flowing conversations.
English Classes: Thursday, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM EST, Zoom.
Our meetings are always interesting. We drilled on listening and adjusting our pronunciation. Critical listening to each other and to ourselves is not always easy. Everyone was able to apply their new pronunciation to the rest of our conversation.
We also debated the pronunciation of the word "often". This led to the discovery that you may or may not pronounce the "t". You may hear "off-in" of "awff-in" or "off-ten" of "off-den". Any one of these is fine.
October 7: We will go over the "C" vocabulary list. Make sentences using as many of the "C" words as you can. Notice the different pronunciations of "C" and C blends. Most of you commented that C sounds are influenced by the vowel following: cu, ca, ce, ci, cu, co. Phonetically, the "C" sounds are taught in schools as s stand alone. Don't worry about this!
Kids' Conversation: Friday, 4:30-5:00 PM EST, Zoom
Wow! I can't tell you how much our kids are growing in their English listening and speaking. I am really impressed! We met new Friends Zooming in from Brazil. We also met Mrs. Willard's newest "pet". We haven't decided on a name for him, yet. But tonight he is sitting in his water dish! I never knew a rat that loved to soak in a bathtub before!
We talked about the tooth fairy. We found out that the customs of tooth fairies are similar in Brazil and in the U.S. Cool Tooth Fairy Facts explains a lot more about tooth fairy around the world and here in the U.S.
We also found out that in the U.S., kids take tae kwon do, and that in Brazil they take muay thai. Both are marshal arts.
October 8: Draw an animal that includes parts from at least three different animals...Be ready to tell us all about your mythical creature.
adhere: follow strictly
customs: habits or behaviors
drilled: practice over and over
edict: declaration by person in power or ruling
free flowing:
goes with: happens at the same time
mythical: not real
notice: pay attention
obsessed: (slang) happy to see, smell, do, participate in something, having that at the top of your priorities (a little the original meaning of obsessed)
scent: aroma
sweater weather: cooler temperatures that make us happy to snuggle into sweaters
take: attend classes
ups and downs:
what's all the fuss: an exclamation that asks why are people so excited
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