Oct. 16: One Proud Mama

One Proud Mama

At 6 am Jermaya headed off to The World Food Prize! He is one of 6 IRIS students chosen. He wrote a paper called :Egypt: We Need Clean Water. The Food Prize is held in Des Moines Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Security is insane, and we are not even allowed to go this year! Evidently there are 3 security checkpoints and lots of guards. 

I'll add to this post as well, as soon as Jer shares some photos with me! :)

Sorry, Jer, for not getting this out before now! I have been having much difficulty getting the pictures onto my computer so I can do this page. I still don't have homecoming stuff, so at least I finally got this one going! :)

We are so very proud of Jermaya for being one of 6 IRIS students chosen to present their papers at the World Food Prize. Jim helped him write the paper on many different nights. The kicker was that the paper was due after they had been here only a couple of weeks! Yikes!

I am going to Jer do most of the details about his trip on Facebook. However, let me just say that he had a fantastic time, and it was a once in a lifetime experience! He was very motivated to go, and very excited upon coming home! He met a lot of new friends, made tons of contacts, and enjoyed the whole experience.

After school. the boys ran in the Conference Cross Country meet in Mount Pleasant. We are so very proud of both of them!

Alex ran his best race ever, he said. He was very excited that he got 19th place. He is sad that cross country is over, however, because he will miss the children. Pretty sure he means his team mates! :) Alex had a great season, in spite of a couple of injuries. He did an awesome job running for the team, especially when you consider that he has never really run before, and has certainly not run cross country! Way to go, Alex!

Jamo, too, had a great race and beat out the varsity runner. This means that Jamo will get to run in Districts next week as a member of the varsity team. Way to go, Jamo!