WTI Takes Huge Fall; Down 5%; Will Test $38 -- October 1, 2020

Oil traders must be reading the blog. Before the trading day started, I suggested folks may want to re-visit the history of the Spanish Flu to get an idea of where we are with regard to Covid-19.

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Duolingo

Of all her apps, and of all her "streaming" activity, 6-y/o Sophia's favorite activities:

• when she signs into her class on Webex twice daily; she loves it not so much for the actual education as for seeing her teachers and her friends; she signs on for thirty minutes every morning and thirty minutes every afternoon;
• Duolingo: her Spanish app;

Her older sister helps Sophia with her morning sessions, and I have her for the rest of the day, from 12:00 noon to 7:00 p.m., though she spends part of those seven hours elsewhere. 

Our first activity at 12:00 noon is physical education. She loves that and it's easy to do. The p/e teacher has a daily exercise assignment; Sophia accomplishes that, and I take a video and send it to her teacher.

After that, Humanities (generally a reading and writing assignment) which generally takes about thirty minutes. Then we check the status of assignments in art and music. 

Then ten minutes of Duolingo and ten minutes of piano. Both are apps and although piano practice is "a pain," she is making progress, slowly but surely.

But Duolingo! Wow, she loves it. It's her favorite educational app. I think she enjoys it for several reasons:

• she gets to use the  Pencil;
• I am learning Spanish with her, but she guides the lessons; I think she feels she is competing with me and beating me; she if very, very competitive;
• the application, for some reason, is addictive -- as noted by an early reviewer;
• just challenging enough; it's almost like a puzzle every day; solving translations, English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English