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Living it up in Bankrupt California!

Living it up in Bankrupt California!

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Carolyn Watson Dubisch is a children's book writer and illustrator from the state of New York. One day in November of 2007, Carolyn, her husband, Mike and their three daughters piled into a rental car, drove to the airport and stepped on a plane to a city at the bottom of the world. This blog is the story of their journey and of their adjustment to living in foreign city in th Andes mountains...And then, after nearly two years they came back, but not to the small, rural town they left in Upstate New York, but to the city of San Diego, California. A huge city, where it never rains... At least not yet.

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  • Too many words to remember...

    Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 23:27 in Spanish, Portuguese, french, language

    "In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language" -Mark TwainI´ve studied four foreign languages and the only one that wasn't a "Romance Language" was ASL or American S...

  • Driving in the Golden State

    Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 11:00 in Driving, balboa park, garbage truck, california drivers

    Yesterday as we made one of many daily drives to school to ferry the kids about, I saw a large truck puttering along. The truck's opening in the back was "taped off " with scraps of cardboard and pieces of trash, holding in what seemed to be an abun...

  • Christmas lists and Christmas trees

    Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 11:23 in lists, christmas, tree, plastic tree

    Today I wrote some Christmas lists. When I was about 8 yrs old that meant I wrote a list of things I want for Christmas, mostly a run down of various toys and games advertised on TV... At age 38 that means I write a list of people I need to buy gifts...

  • Tijuana en la lluvia

    Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 22:40 in Mexico, michael jackson, tijuana, border crossing, wax museum

    In an attempt to venture out and do something more adventurous we decided on a trip out of the country. This is not as big a deal as it sounds when you live 45 minutes from an international border. So we woke up early, packed up some food and supplie...

  • Like New

    Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 14:01 in library, trojan horse, the new childrens museum

    Years ago I had a friend who always celebrated her birthday the same way. She went to the Catskill Game Farm (the small local zoo near where we were living) with her family. She'd been doing it since she was a little girl. Her birthday was in July an...

  • Celebrating with bubbles

    Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 00:14 in birthday, bubble wrap, presents, dancing, bubbles, birthday party

    Phoebe turned 8, so Saturday was Phoebe's "Bubble Party". We blew bubbles, made bubble wands and bubble prints, had a bubble gum guessing game.... ...and, of course there was the bubble wrap dance floor! We had pizza and drinks with bubbles (not cham...

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