This week in our Monday morning circle, we started to sing our Saint John and June songs. Ilay told us about his trip to Las Vegas and then Ruth T. introduced us to our new coworker Leander who will be working in the garden with us for three months.

In the afternoon, one group went swimming and another group stayed at Circle Hall and practiced our Saint John’s play.

On Tuesday evening most of our Families and Friends came to the Vancouver Rowing Club to support us at our ‘Just Singing Around’ fund raiser. Everyone enjoyed the food and entertainment.

In our Thursday morning College, Jason gave us a lesson about bees.
To start off Jason told us that ants, wasps and bees all live in different places. For example ants live in the ground, wasps live in nests of paper or mud and bees live in their hives. We learned that that bees live in colonies.
In each colony there are working bees, honey bees, drones and a queen bee.
The working bees produce wax to build honeycombs and to repair the hives. The honey bee is most important because she collects nectar from the flowers to store in the hives. The honey bee also pollinates the plants by carrying pollen from one flower to another. The second most important bee is called the queen bee. In the spring she stays in the hive and lays up to 2000 eggs a day. That is her only job. During the summer time, the male bees (drones), fly away to other hives to mate with the queens. Once they have completed their job, the male bees die.

We also learned that both wasps and bees have stingers to protect themselves. A bee’s stinger is straight and would cut right in to a person’s skin. After a working bee stings a person it dies. Wasps also have stingers but their stingers are not straight; instead they are curved.

On Saturday after Jason's talk on bees, Fiona brought over a swarm for our sunhive in Kaspar House garden. We are all abuzz about it!

On Saturday after Jason’s talk on bees, Fiona brought over a swarm for our sunhive in Kaspar House garden. We are all abuzz about it!

After a short break, Lorna’s bell choir practiced for the A.G.M.
On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we broke in to our eurythmy, clay, painting, reading, writing, walking and novel groups.

On Friday morning we were introduced to Dick’s family friend,
Nobuyuki Isobe, who will be staying with us for ten days and then he will travel around the world.
In the afternoon, one group went swimming and another group practiced the Saint John play.