Gosh, that's a boring title. Sorry.
Anyway, 14-yo entered a competition for expat kids. The challenge was to make an audio-visual presentation about your life in a different culture. He wasn't short-listed as a finalist. If you want to see the entries that were, you can go to this facebook page, and vote for a winner in each of the two age categories.
I thought his was rather good, though, so I'm sharing it with you. The images are all from our own camera, and I think it really does give a little flavour of what our life is like here. (Apologies for the picture quality.)
Funny to see your own country through someone else's eyes...made me a little homesick, even! I think it was very well done! Loved his choice of music, too! I'll mention it to my 14-yo and maybe he'll think about doing it next year...the signpost for Enid made me smile. DH went to flight school there.
ReplyDeleteWell I loved it and it would have got my vote
ReplyDeleteI love this! And made me homesick too!
ReplyDeleteThat was great - and the boys (who watched it with me) loved the music in particular... x
ReplyDeleteThat was lovely - and I loved the music too. Laughing at the pictures of icicles - we have so many similar ones, it's really something you rarely see in England!
ReplyDeleteI love the video. You seem to be living in quite a rural setting. As a Brit, I think one of the striking things about the US is that one really has a much stronger sense of Mother Nature here in some ways. Much as I love the Cumbrian and Yorkshire countryside back in blighty, I can also find the unspoilt delights of the US countryside marvelous. Even living on the edge of a small city down here in Florida, I love the fact that everywhere is teeming with wildlife. Because of the weather, life in the north of England is generally more of an indoor lifestyle. But in the US there is often more scope to explore the outdoors.
ReplyDeleteI've just sat here in Bonny Scotland having a wee dance to myself on my sofa thinking how beautiful your part of the world is - LOVED the music!
ReplyDeletep.s what is that thing that is being held about 1.08 in? I am probably showing myself up here for lack of nature knowledge and may very well hang my head in shame when I get the answer...
Nice! I thought the mid west was all flat, flat, flat cornfields....
ReplyDeleteCaroline B - I think it's a hedge apple. We call them alien brains, because, well, you can see why because.
ReplyDeleteOh thank heavens for that. I was *actually* going to say that it looked like a brain but thought I might show myself up even more ;)
ReplyDeleteFabulous; those yellow buses remind me so much of American films!
ReplyDeleteThank you for plowing through my blog; that was really kind of you to leave so many comments on different posts. I do them sent to my email inbox so I don't miss any.
Hope you're well.
CJ xx
Awwww that was fab. And I loved his choice of music. The ice storms and temperature extremes you have there always amaze me. xx
ReplyDeleteGreat choice of music and perfectly timed to fit with the slide show. My boys would be very jealous of the size of fire engines (or fire tenders?) out there. I love the frozen fountain too. Modern Romance are stuck in my head now.
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