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In a message dated 5/7/2003 12:37:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

>
> I know. So far, I haven't seen anything negative. I keep telling my
> husband
> we need to buy an old school bus and let the kids paint it however they
> want. He screams Partridge Family!!!! at me, but I think it would be fun!
>
> Although, he'd NEVER be caught dead in it. My 6 yr old wants to go to
> school desperately so she can ride the school bus. That's her sole reason.
>
> LOL As if I'm not weird enough to my family and others...imagine us
> trekking around town in a big 'ol school bus!!! Oh, just the thought makes
>
> me want to rush out and trade my boring conversion van in.....
>
>
Oh my GOD!!!!! I just had an idea...it's probably way weird, and would be
too expensive, but...

What if part of the Unschooling Conference that I'm planning in New England
involved renting a school bus and driver for an hour or so...maybe going
somewhere, or maybe just the ride.....

Hmmm....

Kathryn


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In a message dated 5/8/03 4:25:53 PM, KathrynJB@... writes:

<< >
> I know. So far, I haven't seen anything negative. I keep telling my
> husband
> we need to buy an old school bus and let the kids paint it however they
> want. He screams Partridge Family!!!! at me, but I think it would be fun!
>
> Although, he'd NEVER be caught dead in it. >>

When I was little my dad bought an OLD schoolbus. It's still parked in the
orchard at my cousin Nada's house, being a little house.

But my dad bought it, and converted it to a camper. This was in the early
60's. Time passed. The late 60's came and suddenly my dad's hunting bus was
two degrees from being groovy and that was NOT okay with him, not one bit.
He was mortified that what he had worked so hard on was now considered a
hippie thing. (We kids were not mortified, of course. <g> But we didn't
paint it orange and flowery, although we sure asked him if we could!)

My dad did his own upholstery (cushions with zippers and piping) for the bed
that converted to a dining table with bench seats. I hadn't known he could
sew until he did that.

Funny that I don't think I've ever thought of that bus AND the one I bought
in the late 1970's at the same time before. Life goes so fast in my head...

Sandra

Sandra