River

On our journey some of the best teachers we have had are the earth and sky the mountains and lakes, the sea and the rivers themselves. Most days we stand beside the river and contemplate life's lessons, wondering about things like how the individual drops of water find each other to make the river. But today was more like a field trip. We rented life jackets, and spent the day driving for 10 min up river by truck to spend 40 min floating back to our camp.

Floating along the river can teach you way more than you can learn from books. Anyway that’s my story and I am sticking to it. Because I am hoping that Aja's school believes it when we return to Victoria and try and enroll her straight into grade 8. Otherwise we could be heading up river without a paddle and today we learned how hard that is. But we will have to cross that bridge when we return. I will of course support my arguments with what I learned in school about rivers.... that 'denial' is not a river in Egypt.