fiercely alive — the peculiar adventures of peter and liz

Photo Friday: Taekwondo

March 16, 2012

A couple weeks ago, my Taekwondo school had its annual club championships to discover who are this year’s best fighters among us. Although I didn’t compete, I did show up to take photos for them. It was a long day, but a great chance to hang out with some of my classmates in a different [...]

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The Power of Women’s Stories

March 15, 2012

The wall reads: “Happy International Women’s Day! 8th March. Girls Have the Power!” The teenagers with the XLP bus project I volunteer with chalked it onto the wall last week! A week ago, I climbed the stairs to the top floor of the Idea Store (aka the library) and emerged in a rather empty gathering [...]

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Photo Friday: Rainy Canary Wharf

March 2, 2012

Hey friends, we still won’t have internet at home until next week, so we’ll continue to be a bit disconnected for the next few days. The weather has been great here this past week (until today… go figure) — sunny and 50′s or 60′s. A great week for not having the internet, and for being [...]

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Photo Friday: Keys

February 24, 2012

Hi friends! Just wanted to let you know we’re pretty limited on internet access for the next week or so. But it’s for a very good reason, I promise.

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Photo Friday: Church and Sky

February 17, 2012

If there is one thing that continues to amaze me about London, it’s how incredible the evening sky can be. The colors are amazing, and it’s a regular occurence! Brilliant golds and yellows like this, or different shades of pink and purple and blue and red, the light bouncing off the clouds… London’s sky is [...]

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Fashion, Clothes, Choice (How Much Do We Really Have?)

February 16, 2012

The XLP Bus parked outside the estate next to ours. (So on Thursdays I volunteer on this big purple bus—it comes complete with Xboxes, a Kinect, laptops, an air hockey table, a tiny little oven, and a karaoke machine! It belongs to XLP, the eXceL Project, which is a London-wide youth charity serving boroughs all [...]

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Photo Friday: First Snow

February 11, 2012

Hey friends, miss us? Sorry for the absence. It’s a been a busy month. We’ll get to more of that later on, I’m sure. For now—London got it’s first snowfall last weekend! And again a couple days ago, but the second go around isn’t quite such a big deal.

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In Which Many Books Were Read During 2011

January 12, 2012

Hello friends! We hope your “festive period” (as Transport for London calls it) was delightful; ours was! You can just pretend this New Year’s post aligned perfectly with the beginning of 2012… As we looked back on what we learned during 2011, we thought we’d share a slice of our thinking and show you what [...]

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Guess What: Simple, Gorgeous 3-D Snowflakes Tutorial!

December 16, 2011

So! Last week I was visiting some of the neighbor girls on our estate (you can see our flat from their balcony.) And we were chatting about birthdays and holidays and decorating, and one of the girls mentioned she’d just learnt how to make really easy, beautiful paper snowflakes. And I said, “You should show [...]

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Photo Friday: Strikes and Assemblies

December 6, 2011

As you may have noticed (or maybe not?), we were absent on the blog last week. We’ve been busy working on some projects, and taking a lot of photos of a couple big events last week. You may have seen on the news last Wednesday that London and several other cities around the UK faced [...]