Our teacher then added in her strongly accented English voice, “When everyone gets here, please give a short report on your health to limit the need... to repeat it a thousand times, please.”I smiled and nodded at our diminutive teacher. Miss Auzins was at most five-feet tall and I doubted she tipped her bathroom scales at ninety-pounds. She had a reputation as a stern, hard grader, but she was great at explaining things and demanded excellence from her students. There was nothing wrong with that. "While I was having lunch today, I overheard girls talking about her. If she isn't flying off the handle for the littlest things with some girls, then she's buttering up others, asking for special favors from them.” "And I’ve noticed some funny things about the phone system we use," said Dee Dee. "Between myself and Ebony, we monitor and spot check all the security and information systems activity here on the Island, including the telephones." She went over to her computer terminal, and. Although we helped Alice clime down the tree, I'm pretty sure -- from seeing her later antics up the same tree – that she hadn't required any assistance herself.Very quickly we learnt who Alice and Emma were and that Susan and Reggie had brought their new half-siblings to the park to show them around. Then Reg and Susan had climbed the tree themselves before enticing the new arrivals to join them.However, when little Emma had become stuck and then frightened, Reg and Susan had climbed down and. I needed cabinets and drawers for the kitchen, a stove and a furnace. A water heater sure would be nice to have. So would a composting toilet. It was illegal to dig or operate a pit toilet any more, and a hostile neighbor would be certain to turn me in, sure as shit.Hmm. I needed a bathtub and a pipe run from the well head in the kitchen into the bathroom. That water was cold!I looked around the place and sighed. I hated to leave, but my vacation time was about over. I took pictures of the.