March is the time of year when the international school where Jeremy and Nathan study has its science fair and every student or class has to do something for it.
Nathan had to do a project within set guidelines. His class had to research how a person can concentrate the best. Nathan’s job was to research if doing mathematical problems and listen to a movie would work well together. His conclusion was that a person’s concentration drastically decreases when listening to a movie, although the type of movie did influence the degree of loss of concentration. A comedy was a greater distraction than say an action movie. Nathan is hoping that next year he’ll get to choose his own project or that the teacher will come up with something a little bit more fun because he didn’t like this year’s project at all.
Jeremy did have free choice and from the start of the schoolyear he had the idea to make a potato gun and he succeeded in making one. During the science fair he was able to shoot a bunch of potatoes and of course this drew lots of attention. This was Jeremy’s last project for a science fair at this school. At the end of May his time at this school is over and he will be going into a new phase of his life. Exciting!

As some of you might know I (Tatjana) have always been crazy about horses and at a young age I had the opportunity to turn that love for horses into a hobby. From the time I was 9 until I was 18 you could usually find me at a local farm a few times a week and I thoroughly enjoyed taking care of the horses as well as riding them together with my friends. After I turned 18 I still rode horses every now and then but it happened very rarely. Since we moved to Thailand I haven’t had the chance to ride horses until very recently. Here in the north of Thailand you don’t see many horses and when you do find them they are generally not used for riding. Occasionally you will find them on the military base in Chiang Mai. A little while ago Jeremy, Nathan, and I had the chance to ride horses here in Chiang Rai. For Jeremy and Nathan it was a bit awkward at first but after a bit of help and instructions they were able to ride pretty well and they want to continue learning. For me it was pure nostalgia but it felt different than it had in the past. I used to not be scared of anything which sometimes led to me riding a horse that I knew couldn’t be trusted which resulted in me falling off. But now it’s different. At first I felt uneasy and the horse noticed that. So I also received instructions and that helped boost my confidence. In the end I greatly enjoyed getting to do this again after such a long time. When can we go again???
Sadly I had to pay the price the next day as I woke up very sore. But if that’s the cost of doing something I haven’t done in a long time then sign me up!