Not a new picture, but I chose her from my stock photos. When I am at events I have been trying to capture extra shots for days like today! Betty Angel- you are Number 42!! I used to spend more time with Betty when she was younger. She was so little when I got here, don't even know if she had started school yet. She used to spend quite a bit of time with Nikita (her cousin) and I hung out at Niki's house a lot back then. She barely spoke English so we had one of those magical relationships you can have with kids where you just find a way to communicate despite the language barrier. She is gentle, kind and generous. She is also SOOOOOOO bright- back in my first few years Nikita would bring her over with some of her friends and they'd play school with them, teaching them math, English and have them working with markers and scrap papers in my spare room. I used to have a VERY full fridge of papers with "100%" or "10/10" written on them. Ahhh, the good old days. I posted two pictures of her- one from Culture day where she was playing a tradition game where you put a string inside of a kamik(leather boot) and try to pull it slowly and "catch" a caribou knuckle type bone. The other picture was a little sudden, I taped her on the shoulder during the Spelling Bee and snapped it. Betty is a really sweet and intelligent girl. She is now getting close to the end of primary at school. She has been studying in French, so I likely won't teach her but it will be fun to see how she does! Enjoy!!
Theme Song for Today: Miss Halfway by Anya Marina
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