Working in Education through the Language Lens

A few weeks ago, I planned a fun morning with my visiting niece and nephew. We headed down to the riverfront to ride inside the Duck Boats. Those are amphibian tour buses ~ anyway... While we were waiting for our tour time, I took everyone to an area where I had seen 'the hamster balls' many times before. I had walked passed these many a time, without stopping yet a few times secretly wishing I could go inside. It looked FUN! Today though was a perfect opportunity! Send the kids in and eat up some wait time. My three youngest boys and my nephew each climbed into their balls and onto the water they went - and fell, and fell again. Fall after fall the boys just couldn't keep their balance. Two of them finally gave up and just lay inside the ball. The whole time, as I was laughing and taking photo's, I was also thinking :~ "it can't be that hard! "I'm going to do this!" "They just keep falling!" So after the boys turn - it was

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