Yankee fan

Joseph loved baseball. He did not play much, only on the Edgemont Rec teams and in his dreams. From the time he was a young boy he wore his Yankee gear with pride. At Fordham, it was a requirement to be a Yankee fan. When the Yankees won the world series the school gave the boys a day off.

When he went to Amherst he really became involved in the math of baseball. Fantasy baseball and statistics were right up his alley to being a sports fan. He did not watch the game very much but he avidly followed the team, play by play, on the computer. He ran two fantasy baseball teams, and talked incessantly about players and stats with his Ray and Kyle. Baseball and swimming. His two sports.

Galapagos

We went to Ecuador to see Kyle who needs to speak Spanish in order to graduate. He is behind on his spoken languages because he took latin and ancient greek in high school. He took a year of Spanish his freshman year, but language got dropped his second year because of Joseph's death.

Immersion Spanish in Ecuador is a great option (if you can afford it). Kyle is definitely fluent in spanish now and he'll take another year of spanish at georgetown.

We flew down to Ecuador to see Kyle in his new environment, and then over to the Galapagos - definitely an experience.

While on the boat, two families asked me, on two different occasions whether we had other children? Who would ask a family if there are other children? Only people who are attuned enough to realize their is something wrong in the family grouping.

It was uncomfortable - how do you reply - do you have any other children? I reply, "Yes, but it is complicated"