Pamela’s Note: Natalie and I are so lucky to have a delightful student this year, who we tutor in math (Natalie) and humanities (Pamela). Malena is being home schooled during eighth grade, so that she can delve into the pleasure of learning this year (without the stress of peer pressure). We eagerly look forward to our time with Malena each week. Last Friday, Natalie, Malena and I sat around the kitchen table and took turns reading aloud from Joy Hakim’s marvelous history book series: A History of US: From Colonies to Country, 1735-1791 Natalie read the last chapter and we all applauded after she reached the end. I said, “Let’s figure out…
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From London, War & Peace
Natalie was excited about her mission: using her map-reading skills, she was planning to get us from the north end of Kensington Garden to the Imperial War Museum. We would be crossing three parks and the River Thames. We decided we would walk through the parks and then take a taxi. Within an hour, with Natalie guiding us to the end of Green Park where we caught a taxi, we were dropped off by one of London’s excellent cabbies at the front gates of the Imperial War Museum, which stands in the middle of a park. It’s building was formerly the central portion of Bethlem Royal Hospital, or “Bedlam,” which…
