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So now that the Lent and Easter breaks are over, do y'all want to move the discussion back over here? We're at the point where we can be gabbing back and forth about locations. It's been so much fun to get this far!
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Honesty, I have really missed having it over here! The blog is so pretty and everything is organized in one place but there has not been the fun banter and conversation of last year.
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I say move it back. I have a real hard time trying to get back over to the blog and check each comment thread for a new post (so I haven't lately  I'm so sorry Mary M.! ) Marianna and I really enjoyed the first part of Journey North but are slightly baffled as to this next section.
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Let's move it back here - please?
I kept forgetting to check the blog and with all the stuff that's been going on here this past month, we have pretty much neglected this...
I'm sorry.
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Yes, that was my sense as well--that the blog is great for organizing info, but it really squelched the conversation. Maybe next year if the forums go on Lenten hiatus again, we can plead permission to keep Geography open.
Anyway, we're here now, so let's start chatting! LOL. Are we ready to share guesses? (I know some have shared already.)
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I kept hoping someone would start the chat off...Mary M. I began writing to you a thousand times but couldn't finish for one reason or another so sorry!
Here is my problem/question/bafflement:
We totally lost interest once we knew where it was which was many, many weeks ago. With Lat. and Long. there was only one spot in the world it could be, we picked up a book on Vancouver at the library and that appeared to be the end of the project. The Cultural Clues were extraneous, we'd already read about most of the stuff they posted. Am I missing something?
If not then I think we'll try it again next year but not identify both Latitude and Longitude and then when the Cultural Clues come in we'd have the excitement of narrowing down the location along that Line by the Clues.
The first half of this project was exciting and very fun though!
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marihalojen wrote:
Here is my problem/question/bafflement:
We totally lost interest once we knew where it was which was many, many weeks ago. With Lat. and Long. there was only one spot in the world it could be, we picked up a book on Vancouver at the library and that appeared to be the end of the project. The Cultural Clues were extraneous, we'd already read about most of the stuff they posted. Am I missing something? |
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Hi Jennifer! I also thought our location was pretty easy this year. That said, the cultural clues are only meant to help confirm location and the bulk of the work is much earlier on in the projcet. Now for folks who are doing all the mystery classes there is much more to do than when we are only tracking one. Last year though our family was only required to do one location we did them all. That really kept us busy. This year we followed a couple locations of interest in addition to our assigned one.
My observations on doing it this year verses last year are that the locations were much more likely to be big major cities this year which made them easier to narrow down earlier. Last year there were many smaller towns so even though you "thought" you knew the general location by latitude and longitute it could have been a couple different cities towns which were close to each other. That made those cultural clues so much more vital as it was the only way to narrow it down between close cities.
Also last year there was way more chatting back and forth between participants so if someone was "stuck" then others were also helping to work on location identification with them.
I hope everyone saw the thread I posted earlier this morning where we can compile all our data. We need to have it completed if we are going to enter the contest as a group by Friday.
Here is the posting thread.
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I saw the other thread, but came back to this one for "chatting". I can see how a smaller town would change the playing table drastically! We still had a lot of fun and can sure figure photoperiods like champions now!  Have you found any particularly good books for Vancouver, Mary M? We went with the totem pole thing as our library had the most books on that trail.
Whale in the Sky and a Lesson Plan (really, really simple) and on Reading Rainbow.
Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest
I'd picked up the Rough-Faced Girl forgetting it was Algonquin but such a nice read!
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