Chaeli Campaign Graduation!

Last night was mine and Josh's graduation from the Chaeli Campaign. We had to do a 2 minute speech, and when i found that out, I was like I cant do that! But once I got going on the writing it was fine. here is a copy of my speech:

Hi, my name is Keren meijer, i'm 13 years old, and homeschooled like my brother Josh.

Being a Chaeli camapiaign ambassador has inspired me to do greater things with my life and to grow as a person. I learnt that even though I'm so young, I can still make difference in my community and help other poeple.

Organizing our Car rally has not been easy! And we have been really blessed by my Mom's friend tanya. tanya has done this sort of thing before, so she knows what to do and who to talk to. There have been so many things that have needed to be done in order to make this event a sucess. First of all the route, we have spent hours working on it and coming up with cryptic clues and questions for along the way, sometimes staying up past 11 working, laughing falling asleep and brainstorming. My Mom has been amazing; she has been the cook for us and the vbabysitter for tanya's kids and grandchild. The response for prizes, as Josh said, has been amazing we wnet around this morning asking foir prizes and got some amazing vouchers! The only thing that has been a bit discouraging has been the response for entries, so if any of you are interested in entering, please let us know tonight! Or support us by buying a raffle ticket from me or Josh for a wine hamper or a delicious lee hamper.

My most memorable moments so far have been the hours we have spent working on the questions, one in particular. We were sitting trying to think of an anagram for “the Chaeli Campaign”, when Josh came up with a website where you type in your words and it comes up with loads of anagrams for you. So we typed in “the Chaeli Campaign” and it came up with get a mechanical hip! We were in hysterics the rest of the week!

Next year I am going to be a mentor to the new ambassadors, and I’m really looking forward to working with them! I also want to say thank you to Zelda and the rest of the Chaeli Campaign for giving me such amazing opportunities!

~Keren

The Girl with a Pearl Earring

At the moment at art we are busy doing shading. The pictures we have been doing are upside down in a envelope. What we do is pull out the picture bit by bit and shade what we see. We don't know what we are drawing and are not aloud to look the picture until its done. The picture I got is called The Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Johannes Vermeer.

I finished it today, here is the comparison, leave a comment to tell me what you think.

~Keren

Dance Social and other stuff

WOW!!!!! Life has been so busy here! First of all, Josh Tanya and I have been crazy busy with the car rally we are planning. But it has been loads of fun too!!!!

Secondly Aunty Deborah and Uncle Dieter stayed with us on Friday night and spent Saturday here, it was so great to see them again, I will miss them when they leave again.......

And last of all, last night we went to a ballroom dance social!!! It was above Harry Goemans centre at JION. It was really fun!!!! Ester, Carley and I stuck together the whole time and had so much fun chatting and laughing, and of course dancing when somebody asked us to!!! It was a really fun evening, and now I wish I had a dancing partner to carry on with again!!! Ester, Carley and I said we need to find some triplets to dance with so we will all be matching, so if anybody knows any triplets, let us know!

~Keren

Baby Shower

Yesterday was Aunty Tammy's baby shower!!!!!! It's soooo exciting that next month I will have a new baby cousin!!!!

I made some cupcakes, I know the icing isn't very good, but I have never done that kind before!!! It's nothing compared to what I can do when I have Tessa's guidance and tools with me!!!

Mom's gift to her was a nappy cake. She made it all out of nappies and decorated it with things for the little baby boy! You might wonder why there is a photo on the cake? It's because when Aunty Tammy opened the presents, she had to guess who it was from, by looking at their baby photo!! Some she got straight away, but others took ages!!!!

I decided to make a scrapbook of his first year as my gift, and I will be sure to blog about it!!!!

We played a game at the baby shower too, we each got three pegs (except Aunty Tammy). Every time somebody says baby (Aunty Tammy could say it), the person who hears them say it, gets to take one of their pegs and the person with the most pegs at the end got a prize!!!

Tanya brought baby Isabella with her, and it was so hot that I dipped her feet in the pool, she liked it!!!

I cant wait to meet little "Maximus" !!!!! I'm sure everyone is excited about this new addition to the family!!!

~Keren

A little bit of sunshine

On Thursday we went to Muzinburg beach for a walk. Mom was taking some pictures of me with her new camera!!!!

The weather was overcast and windy, but its was great anyway!!!!

colorful!!!!!

low GI muesli bars

I know I haven't blogged in ages, but I plan to more frequently now! Today I made some low GI muesli health bars from a recipe in a Your Family magazine. Here is the recipe, I suggest you try it!!!

Makes 16 bars, prep 20 min + cooling

Ingredients:

1 cup (250ml) rolled oats

1 cup (250ml) desiccated coconut

1/2 cup (125ml) oat bran

1/2 cup (125ml) sesame seeds

1/2 cup (125ml) sunflower seeds

1 cup (250ml) raisins

125g butter

1/2 cup (125ml) honey

1/3 cup (80ml) brown sugar

Method:

1. Grease a 16cm x 28cm baking pan

2. Toast the oats, coconut, oat bran, sesame seeds ans sunflower seeds in a frying pan over a medium heat, stirring for 8 minutes or until golden, and transfer to a bowl. Allow to cool then stir in the raisins.

3. In a small saucepan combine the butter, honey and sugar over medium heat, stirring for 3 minutes or until the sugar has dissolved. Bring to the boil then reduce the heat to low. Simmer without stirring for 7 minutes or until the mixture forms a soft ball when a little is dropped into cold water. Add to the dry ingredients and mix well.

4. Spoon the mixture into the baking pan. Use a large metal spoon to press down firmly.

5. Allow to coll and then cut into bars and enjoy! These bars will keep well for up to one week in an airtight container.

I just tasted the finished product now, they are great!!!!! The only thing is, you have to wait until they are completely cool to cut them, the waiting is agony!!! I hope you enjoy them!

~Keren

First day of High School (sort of)

Today was my fist day of 'high school'. We spent the day organizing everything, and deciding all the subjects I would do this year.

This afternoon I went to the van der Lindes so Zak could do horse riding. We had a great time swinging on the new swing they put up over the river :).

It was also my first day back at Karate, I was extremely tired :(!!!!

So that was my first day of high school!!!