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 SUMMER ACTIVITIES FOR YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS How about this? You can invite all your friends that have similar needs and brainstorm ideas. Ideas for Activities Share your idea with friends at your church and school, as well as acquaintances in the plaza/park/corner. Tell those that don’t have plans to go to a summer camp that you’re planning to host your own summer camp this year. Then ask them to collaborate with you. Say you want them to come up with creative ideas about things to do for the summer. Make a Plan If someone has a bigger backyard, arrange to use theirs. Better yet, you could arrange to take turns, depending on the availability of venues. Why not make it into a contest? You could then dangle a small prize before each participant as an incentive! Are there extra persons around? Maybe you could invite them to join! Teach what you learned from step 1 for a host of summer holiday activities that enable you to polish off
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Letty's Pool by LORNA A FRASER

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    3 WAYS IN WHICH A CHARACTER IN 'LETTY'S POOL' IS AN AGENT  OF CHANGE 1.  In Letty's Pool, Mark MacAndrews is an obvious agent of change.   Firstly, change is initiated when (together with his sister Angeline) he breaches the entrance to the hidden village that is site of Busha Wilde's plantation, hidden in the bush at the edge of the Cockpit Country, home of the infamous Maroons.  Secondly, he stops to rest on the bridge across the nearby river, and saves the beautiful Maroon exile, Jasmine, from the attack of the wild pig.   Thirdly, he assists his companion/sister in introducing an advanced medical technique when he applies the treatment to her.  Finally, by his eventual marriage to Jasmine, Mark becomes an agent of change in two hugely significant ways: first, he is able to start an alternative dynasty of his own; secondly, he is able to heal some of the hostility between the maroons and the settlers of the society.   
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DEE AND THE RIVER MUMMA AND OTHER TALES

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  WHY DO I WRITE? I write to share the results of my own creative journey with others who might have similar interests, or at least similar questions to those which I asked or were asked of me then and now: 'Who am I? Who are we? Why are we here?' I was a year out of sixth form and a first job as an aspiring writer/editor, when I began my studies at the University of the West Indies' Mona campus. It was the decade of the seventies, intended to pursue an honors degree in English. However, social sciences and foreign languages ​​offered so many additional possibilities for providing answers to those burning questions of the reasons for life and living, that I graduated with an honors degree in Spanish and English instead, and followed up with a Master's in Literatures in English , and a diploma in Language Arts Education. DEE AND THE RIVER MUMMA AND OTHER TALES  One evening when the land is bathed in moonlight, Dee, who lives with her grandparents in Mango Valley, goes ou
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RETURN TO NASEBERRY HILL, THE 7th HILL OF KILDARE

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Return to Naseberry Hill , the 7th Hill of Kildare   THE RIVER OF TIME allows ordinary schoolgirls  to have a bird's eye view of the unfolding of history, to experience it as a journey home, to make it into one's own voyage of spirituality and self discovery, and to deal with anger and fear.  Whatever they have learnt about love remains to be discovered. but they do  learn the power of letting go, which enables them to travel in their unique style, on their own journey of self-discovery.   Also by the same author: Letty's Pool : Rivers of time could not drown their love. During the height of the war between the Maroons and the British, an intrepid British soldier sneaks into New Nanny Town to visit his love, and tragedy inevitably follows. Their star- crossed meeting activates a train of events which two centuries later threatens the well-being of a lovely young girl, when the spirit of the river where they met comes to claim her prize.
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A Trending Schoolbag would Have Been Nice

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In Secret Thunder,  I described how my alter ego, little Dee, wakes up early on the morning after being punished for attempting to exert her rights to her own identity at school on the previous day, and attempts to get back to the scene of the previous day's misfortune. The bag that she carried would have been a humble satchel, not the stylish backpacks of today. In fact, when I was writing the story, I didn't even think about the bag, much less care about how trendy it was, for my character was no that type of child. All she wanted to to prove her point, that she was capable of asserting herself, that she needed to let her own secret thunder! But even for that fictional character, a trending schoolbag would have been nice!  With regard to back-to-school supplies for your kids, let me hope that they have at least a small input into what they get to take with them to school.
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