Poi! Poi!

The Poi are here!! I got this fabulous rainbow tailed poi and Kim got crazy jail-house light up fancy poi! I am so excited I can't wait to hit the park and play with my new toys!

If you are interested in purchasing your own poi I would HIGHLY recommend Home of Poi, there is a link in our side bar and it gives you 13% off!

Chocolate Cake and Birthday Presents

I'm sitting in my living room watching Julie & Julia which has inspired me to write a blog entry, even though I don't have anything incredibly interesting to report. Other than this movie makes me want to eat a huge chocolate cake. Not just a piece but pretty much the whole thing. If you're reading this and you care about me in any way, you can prove your affection by delivering me said cake. And a fork.
Getting all the information needed for a passport application is like participating in a very difficult, very frustrating scavenger hunt. I've currently accumalated two passport photos (which are not cute), the information of two people who have known me forever, a copy of my drivers license and my care card and signed my signature about a million times. I still have to find my birth certificate (does my Mom have it, or my Dad?) and get my friend Nick to be my gaurantor. Luckily the passport folks have eased up on the gaurantor rules. It used to be that you needed someone who was a doctor or a teacher or a government official to be your gaurantor. Now it just has to be a person who has a passport and is over 18 years of age. But they have to sign a bunch of stuff and generally prove that I am who I say I am. Because I am, in fact, Kim.
I really really hope that I dot all my i's and cross all my t's. I want to do this passport business right the first time so that it only takes the estimated 10 days to process. If I mess something up it could potentially go very badly. Every time I talk to someone about this whole passport business I get "Boy, you sure are leaving this late. It took me five months to get mine"... I obviously don't have that option. But I hope actually going down to the passport office will cut out a lot of the time and confusion.
I found out today that my brother has been trying very dilegently to order me my very own set of poi! He had some mishaps. So, he told me what he has been trying to do and now he is teaming up with Naomi in order to get me a set! I have chosen LED Glow Sock Poi.
These are them... I'm very excited. Even though Corey told me about my present before it came, it was still a big surprise. He is kind of a good brother. Now I am going to have to find him something really excellent from Vietnam for his birthday, since I'm missing it and all.

Well, that is all I got. Tootles.

Poi!

One of the things that Kim and I would really like to do with our students is poi. Because poi are not plentiful in Ho Chi Minh City, at least I think they aren't, we will have to make them with our students. Over the next two months I am going to be researching cheap and easy ways to make different kinds of poi. I really like the first set he makes in this video, I think those would be fairly straight-forward to make with a group of kids.

I also found this link that shows you how to make practice poi but I think I like the sock poi better. It might be fun to make some of both.