My host mom has promised that tomorrow we will be going on a Grand Adventure. She is Activities Director for a nursing home, which means she thinks up ways for the old people to have fun. Well, they're not all OLD people exactly - there's one guy there who is younger than she is. She called him Hermanito, which is Spanish for Little Brother. Once a week she and the residents (that's what they call the people who live in the nursing home) go on outings together. Brady and Christopher go too, because they have several resident friends.
They go to movies and museums and sports games and Bingo halls. Tomorrow we have an outing and I get to go along, but I won't be the only non-human on the trip. I'M going to have a traveling Buddy of my very own!
This is Christopher and Fern:
And Fern said
"Well, Fern's my name so I guess it can be a boy's name."
I told him I'd never met a purple monkey before, and he said,
"Well, now you have," and he smiled at me, and I smiled back, and now we're besties.
Fern looks and talks different because he's from Africa. Christopher's Uncle from Ghana gave him Fern a couple years ago, and Fern travels all around with the family. Wherever they go, they take pictures with Fern and make picture letters for Uncle. Here they are at the ocean in Oregon. Fern's been to lighthouses and Sea Arches, zoos and aquariums. He's even been to Pennsylvania! He got to travel on a PLANE, not in a stinky envelope.
Fern has lots of great stories and he knows how to play cool games like Awale. We're going to have lots of fun in the next couple of months. Stay tuned!
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