Highlights from the Braeburn Newsletter, featuring Alta!

book day📖

At school we got to have a fun day called Book Day.  Book Day is a day where we got to dress up as our favorite book character.  I don't think that much people got the message, because lots of people dressed up as movie character, like Superman, Green Arrow, Star Wars Guy, Thor, and stuff like that.  Alta dressed up as the bunny, Edward Tulane, from the book, "The Miraculous Adventures of Edward Tulane".  I dressed up as Tom Sawyer. Porter didn't get to dress up because it was only for Primary School. Alta got a special award for having the best costume in her class, even though she thought it was horrible. I thought Reis would get it because he had the best costume. He was Harry Potter.  Not one person knew who Tom Sawyer was, and that is one of the most famous books in America!  My mom was shocked by that.

Fairbourne Family 14th Anniversary

This week is my parents 14th wedding anniversary, so we decided to go to this beach at the Serena Beach Hotel.  We were there all day and it was super fun. First, we started to make a snowman (sandman). We worked on it for like an hour.  We piled up a big pile of sand and packed it really well.  Then we made eyes and a nose and a mouth with seashells and seaweed. I think it turned out super cool. We made in remembrance of the snow in Utah. Natasha, Ben and I went snorkeling and we saw some pretty cool fish.  We got super hungry, so we ordered some pizza, fish and chips for lunch from the Hotel. We started to play some Frisbee and tried to dive to catch them. My dad wanted us to do some races after that so we all lined up. The first one I came in first. The second one I got third because the first one we were staggered and the second one we were perfectly lined up. After we raced the second one my dad flipped up a blue bubble jelly fish on accident.  It started to sting him all of his leg. We went back up to our table and looked at his leg.  It looked like someone whipped him. So we ordered some ice-cream to make it feel better. 

 

When we were done, we noticed that a camel was laying right next to our sandman.  So we decided to go on a camel ride, it was FUN!

 When we went home, I realized I got a real dark red sunburn on my back, did not even think of sun screen that whole time. I was having so much fun. I really loved it that day and I really enjoyed the camel ride I love trying new things like that it was really fun.

Update on Porter

                            

Porter at a party at with his friends

I have settled in pretty good. I got a good part in the after school play, "Greece". I have an American accent, so I pretty much got a really good part. In "Greece"  I am Doody. I have plenty of friends, everybody knows me because of my awesome speech and my name, they think it is awesome.

My friends have parties here all the time. I have been to two already and have been invited to three more. It's weird,  in Utah when you go to a party you only go to your best friends party

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The New Me

About 5 weeks ago, I decided I should do a new work out.  So I did.  Now every two days I go to the gym at night and work out, I do it with my dad's friend named Ben, he taught me something really important.  When you work out you say the things you want to happen, for example when you lift the weights you say, "awesome", "chicks", "hot girls", "cookies". I want to work out because girls dig it, I know that because the day after I worked out, a hot girl gave me a love note.  It said, Dear Everett, I love your sense of humor and you are so funny and nice.  love, ----------. The next day I got one that said Dear Everett I love you and you are great to be around. love, ---------.  My workouts are really paying off!

Mukuti Grill Dinner

This Monday my family and my dad's employees came to a restaurant with us called Mukati Grill. My dad rented the whole place, so there was a buffet of lots of different African foods. Once we all sat down and started to eat there was this annoying chicken that was hanging out around the table.  Out of no where it jumped on the table and stepped on Bens and Porters plates of food!  It was disgusting, so they got new plates of food. Then when they sat down we started to talk again and then one of my dad's  employees (McKenna) spilled her drink and it all most got on my dad, but he jumped so fast,  Not even a drop touched him, but it did get all over food but he didn't  really care. I really love going to hotelis in Africa because the food is a lot better than in a fancy, expensive restaurant.  Although, in those restaurants, chickens don't just walk in and try to eat your food.  I really love Africa and how it is so different then America.