Last night we had dinner in our room and then the unthinkable happened...Sam picked up his pad and spent about an hour drawing a picture, completely unprompted! I know when I read about home schooling people commented that this kind of thing might happen, that the kids begin to self teach and want to learn, but I never truly believed it. And this was on top of learning science, reading about earthquakes from the Bill Bryson book and reading Harry Potter twice in one day!
His ear infection is clearing up now so all being well he will be back in the sea on Friday, we have picked up a couple more antibiotics to completely clear the infection. Santa Teresa is pretty nice, we had a tropical storm tonight, complete with thunder and lightning... I do think I have some strange connection to some magnetic force here because I can smell strange things and I felt very odd during the thunderstorm - I'm sure my Dad will have some extravagant scientific explanation for it!
Will is fine he got up this morning and asked Sam to cut his hair, quickly followed by saying he would be really annoyed if he didn't do it well. I pointed out that you can't ask a 12 year old to cut your hair and be cross if it goes wrong and so I decided to do it myself (well was more forced into doing it) it was very high pressure and Will was his usual calm self!!! but fortunately it turned out ok and he actually looks quite handsome now.
There's not a lot else to report right now, tomorrow we are going to take a trip to Mal Pais which is a nature reserve and hopefully see some more crazy wildlife. I leave you with a picture of Sam and Will trying to catch Lobster in the rock pools for dinner (they failed so we had super noodles with chicken and aubergine sauce - very Costa Rican) - check out the rainforest behind - our house is just behind the big tree.
Certainly I have an explanation but it's hardly an extravagant one. Electrical activity will alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere, in particular produce more ozone, sulphur dioxide and nitric oxides. The former two certainly have distinctive smells which if you are sensitive enough you will pick up. Sometimes the cemcentration of SO2 is so great that everyone gets a whiff. So it is not surprising that an empath like yourself should pick up strange smells. Also, there are now so many different pollutants in the atmosphere that nobody has any real idea of what chemical alterations are going on during an electric storm, what is certain however that gaseous changes will be made and some of the resulting products, though of minute quantities will have a distinctive smell. It could be these unknowns that you are sensing.
ReplyDeleteSam is beginning to learn the greatest lesson of all, how to amuse himself. Without the great barage of crap from the television and with a lack of friends and other associates around him to keep his mind lazily occupied with trivia he has discovered the beauty of learning from and for oneself. If you keep that up his interests will only develop and grow in many areas. You should also be seeing that his ability to concentrate on any task of learning or self amusement will be gathering a pace. Good for him. Good for you all.
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