Alyssa attains new heights

Alyssa has a science project due tomorrow. She chose to build a 3-D mountain scene, based on a 4x5 km section of Waterton Lakes National Park. She has done this pretty much to scale with 1 cm = 100 m, both on the horizontal and the vertical. The valley base is at 1300 m and the highest peaks are at 2400 m. She has put a tree line at 2000m, and the grass-rock border 200 m higher. Creeks from the mountains feed into rivers which flow east to the lake. She has scooped out basins because these are glacial mountains which are jagged because of glacial erosion. The Eastern side of the mountains which comes just before the foothills and plains is grassy because it gets less rain.

Meanwhile, Alyssa has been playing lots of basketball lately. Since we came back from Hawaii 13 days ago, she has played in 3 league games, and 2 tournaments, for a total of 9 games. Her team won both of their most recent tournaments, and have won 7 of the 9 games. Alyssa is a strong fundamental player and is really tough on defence. Her coach is really happy with her progress.

I have been impressed that despite Alyssa's busy schedule, lately, she has still been a stong positive influence in our family, is conscientious with school work, YW and other responsibilities.

Good work, Alyssa!