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The Bay's the Way
As you'd expect, the accomodation was comfortable, clean and very reasonably priced, the location in the heart of Kerry was excellent but the real asset for the Kenmare Bay are the staff. All the staff I encountered, starting with the manager and going right across the board, were genuinely interested, friendly and helpful (something that I've found is pretty rare in the hotel trade). This creates a relaxed, unfussy atmosphere about the place that makes it easy to feel at home the moment you arrive. A credit to the management and staff. I look forward to returning.
Memorable Weekend
Kenmare is an absolute gem of a place to visit. It offers beautiful scenery, super restaurants, lively nightlife and loads to do. We stayed in the Kenmare Bay hotel and I recommend it highly. The hotel and the rooms were excellent. The staff were extremely polite and professional. I will definitely return soon.
Exactly what we needed ...
The Kenmare Bay Hotel completed all the requirements for a perfect getaway. Service was excellent - the management could not do enough for us to make our stay better. The rooms were clean, the food was great and all this at great value.
Perfect base to check out this beautiful part of Kerry.
Feel good factor 5 stars!
I stayed in the Kenmare Bay Hotel for a weekend with some members of my family and really enjoyed it. It's an extremely friendly place with smiling and helpful staff, who make the stay a pleasure. The hotel is only about a few minutes stroll from the colourful streets of Kenmare town and makes for an easy return to the nice rooms and a comfortable bed after a night out sampling the local cuisine and famous atmosphere of the Irish pub life.
It is also a good place to be based for taking day excursions and drives around the spectacular Kerry countryside.
I'd recommend this hotel to anyone. For some reason there are no signposts to direct you there, but ask someone when you're in town, as we did and it's very close by.
Great Touring Base
A nice hotel, with an excellent staff. We arrived late our first evening after a fustrating 24 hours of airports, missing luggage, and rerouted flights. Our room was ready and the very nice staff member at the desk reopened the kitchen and managed to get us several sandwichs and salads without a second thought.
Excellent location to tour County Kerry and the Ring of Kerry. The hotel is a short and pleasant three minute walk to several nice pubs and restaruants in Kenmare. Leave the car at the hotel and enjoy your visit rather than mess with the narrow streets and driving on the left. Or just have a pint at the snug bar on the premise.
If you need Killarney, its just up the road, but staying in Kenmare allows you to avoid the congestion of the city and enjoy the Ireland you came to see.
Pleasure to stay in
I recently had a cousin over from the UK to visit and brought her to stay at the Kenmare Bay Hotel for a couple of nights. The rooms were comfortable and the staff excellent. We both were impressed by the service and hospitality we received there. I would definitely recommend the hotel and hope to stay there again on my next visit.
Great value for money
I stayed in the Kenmare Bay Hotel last weekend and we found it to be a welcoming and a very friendly an relaxing hotel. We had phoned numourous places and the value for money that this hotel offered was exceptional. I would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone who wants to visit Kenmare or any part of kerry.
Service excellence
I wrote a note to the management of the Kenmare Bay Hotel in Kenmare, County Kerry to compliment their staff on their most welcoming of service that I've experienced in Irish hospitality for a good while. I felt I had to share my sentiment with other travellers too...
We arrived fairly late, without having booked a room, and check-in and
check-out was flawless. Not even organising us a sandwich tray later that
evening was too much to ask.
Good service nowadays seems to have become the exception to the rule, which shouldn't be the case in a country so dependent on tourism. But when I come across service that leaves a champagne aftertaste in my soul, I have to give a 'pat on the back'.
I can recomment this hotel to each and all.
A lovely spot
Having read the review "depressing and costly" about Kenmare Bay Hotel, I was dreading my weekend away in the Hotel. It did look a bit dated from the outside but the interior is nicely decorated. The room was lovely and the bathroom was very clean with a modern shower in the bath.It was the first hotel in Ireland I have stayed in that had a very informative coloured booklet which went through everything you`d need to know from babysitting service to obtaining ice for you room. It also had a list of things to do in the area on a nice day and a rainy day! Free maps where also at reception.At breakfast there was a lovely spread a whole pot of tea/coffee and hot toast was promptly delivered to you table. The staff could not have been nicer very cheery and helpful, insuring you had everthing you wanted. The dinner experience was excatly the same, being a vegan I always have problems in resturants....the waitress asked me what I would like and I got excatly what I asked for. I truely enjoyed my weekend in Kenmare and would have no problem recommending The Kenmare Bay Hotel
Depressing and costly
I stayed in the Kenmare Bay Hotel last weekend, I was really disappointed by the entire experience. The rooms are small and dingy with horrible d�cor. The staff were cold and unhelpful. The hotel had just reopened for the summer so that might explain the musty smell in the room.
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Beautiful countryside
... walked us around the small farm, showing where Molly Gallivan would have retrieved the water, where she would have planted crops, the cow she would have kept, the sheep, the pig and the chickens. Back then, the farms were so small, they used to have the animals in at night with the families to keep them warm, as they were also very valuable to them. We were shown how bread would have been made and how butter was made. Then ...
Kinsale to Kenmare
... a few minutes, so we strolled into town and checked out a few shops. Siobhaun told us that a particularly good trad music band would be in the hotel's restaurant that night, so we had dinner there and lingered a little to listen to the music. The place was very busy that day as it was hosting an 80-year-old's birthday, a 70-year-old's birthday, a 50-year-old's birthday, and a funeral party that seemed particularly un-funeral-like. The Irish know how to throw a ...
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On Tuesday morning I asked Hiromi if she'd like to visit King John's Castle with me so we walked over there and walked all through the exhibits and around the castle. There is so much tragedy connected to that place; I always feel quite somber after a visit ...
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... most skips with the stone, I won in an exciting tie breaker. Joining the other boys back at the hostel we showered and got ready for the nights activities. Dave (our guide) had organized for us to see "Pat" who was going to tell us some tales and stories. It sounded like a fun evening, as the Irish sure do love to talk and have good craic. It was held in one of the cities hotels and we ordered drinks and waited for the show to start. The ...
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Annexedby Sharon Dogar
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In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peter's point of view. What was it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, first to hate her and then to find yourself falling
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Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex - but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her?
In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peter's point of view. What was it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, first to hate her and then to find yourself falling in love with her? Especially with your parents and her parents all watching almost everything you do together. To know you're being written about in Anne's diary, day after day? What's it like to start questioning your religion, wondering why simply being Jewish inspires such hatred and persecution? Or to just sit and wait and watch while others die, and wish you were fighting.
As Peter and Anne become closer and closer in their confined quarters, how can they make sense of what they see happening around them?
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"[Annexed] is compassionate and thoughtful, told in a very intimate way. Dogar gets the claustrophobia of the annexe across brilliantly, as it escapes in pointless bickering and petty resentments, but the picture of vital, interesting people with hopes, dreams, loves and ambitions rises equally vividly from the pages. Peter himself is wonderfully drawn: painfully shy, introspective and independent of thought."—The Book Bag (UK)
A bold move. Dogar writes with respect, but to tell the story of Anne Frank and her companions in the Annex from Peter Van Pels's perspective invites controversy, which may overshadow the story itself. Peter's dying thoughts (completely imagined, as there is little documentation of his life after the Annex was raided) are interspersed with events readers will likely recognize from Anne's diary, but in Peter's eyes Anne annoys as well as enchants. Less hopeful than Anne, Peter mostly thinks about his burgeoning sexuality and his loss of faith. The author's writing is assured and at times poetic, and it truly soars in the wrenching and powerful (and fully fictional) camp scenes; knowing the characters and outcome from the outset robs the Annex portion of the story of some depth and nuance. As a companion to Anne's diary, this fascinating read raises great questions about truth, narrative and perspective, but it may strike some as exploitative, needless or otherwise questionable. Ultimately powerful, but much of this feels like an exercise despite the love and artistry apparent in the writing. (preface, epilogue, author's note, further reading) (Historical fiction. 12 & up)
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May 1945 —Peter: Austria,
Mauthausen, sick bay
I think I'm still alive.
But I'm not sure.
I'm ill.
I must be because I'm lying down. We never lie down.
In the camps there's no such thing as rest.
I should be carrying rocks up the quarry steps. It's a long way to the top of the quarry. I never know if I will make it. If someone ahead of us falls, we all fall—unless we're quick.
Sometimes the guards wait until one of us is on the very last step, already thinking of laying down his burden, of the relief of letting down the weight. That's when they reach out with their boots and kick us down. We fall like dominoes.
That's all I remember, falling down the side of the quarry. I feel my body jolt and bounce. I feel the other bodies land on me. I am crushed, bony body on bony body. We are all so sharp now. My bones crunch. I am suffocating. The bodies move off me, the dead pushed aside by the living. I can breathe. My bones click back into place. I am alive and must get up, or I will be piled up with the dead. I try to stand.
I can see why the guards laugh. I look like a puppet. A puppet of bones with his strings all cut. I stand. I walk. I go on. But I know that really I am still dead on the ground, that each day a piece of us dies.
And we let it die. We have to—to survive. Soon someone will come and wake me and the nightmare will begin. I'm waiting for the word, that word:
Wake up. If they come, then I must stand up and work, or I must die. Perhaps I am already dying. Everyone does in the end, there's no other way out. And now it's my turn.
It's a relief.
The problem with lying down is that it brings memories. They keep on coming, reminding me of who I am.
The world.
My life.
The German Jews have a word for it.
The longing for home. We avoid it if we can. It can be fatal.
I am hot. My head aches. My body hurts. These are just words, they don't explain the pain. The way my bones grind against each other. There are no words for pain like this.
But the memories are worse—pictures of a time before. Of a time I must deny, so that when they come to wake me I can go on. Put one foot in front of the other, pretending that there is only this moment, this day, this night to get through—and survive.
To tell my story.
But the memories persist; they push at the edges of my resistance. They spill. There was a girl, wasn't there? There was a place. A place where the leaves fell like golden coins from a tree into the water as we watched through the attic window . . . and before that there was a home, a street, a world, a girl I loved . . .
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July 13, 1942 —Peter van Pels:
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I'm running through the streets; it's early morning and the sun tries to break through the mist. My footsteps echo. My thoughts race: I'm not going into hiding. I'm not going into hiding—especially not with the Franks!
I don't know where I'll go; I only know that I can't do it. I can't stay locked up in a tiny apartment with two girls (especially not Anne Frank) and Mutti and Mrs. Frank! Just because Father does business with them doesn't mean we have to like them! I'd rather take my chances on the streets.
My feet hit the pavement. Somewhere behind me there's the sound of an engine. I know at once what it is. We all know the sound—a military vehicle.
I slow down, keep to the shadows. It's still curfew time for Jews, not that I look like a Jew.
I'm nearly there.
At Liese's house.
I whisper her name. I imagine her face, her violet eyes and her soft dark hair. I imagine what she might do when I tell her I'm running. She might hold me; she might lie down in the grass with me. She might . . .
I need to concentrate. I need to get over the wall and into her back garden.
I take a run and try to vault it. It's high. I miss.
The sound of the engine comes closer.
I hit the wall with my left foot, and with fear fueling my fist I grab the top of it with my right hand—and this time I make it.
I drop onto the grass. Breathe hard and reach around me feeling for a stone, a twig, anything I can throw at her window to wake her.
But something stops me. I listen. The streets are silent. There's no sound. That means the engine's stopped. I stand completely still. Did they see me? Are they searching through the streets right now, listening, waiting for me to give myself away—to make a sound?
Into the silence comes a banging, a crashing of fists on the door and voices shouting.
"Open up! Open up!"
I stand in the garden, frozen. I watch as the lights come on. I see Liese's face appear briefly behind the window as she draws back the curtains—then she's gone. I watch as the whole family reappears behind the lit-up window of the sitting room. They're wearing their nightclothes. They gesticulate, argue, but in the end they pack their cases, put on their coats, and disappear—with Liese.
I know they're calling up teenage girls. I know that's why we're going into hiding, because Margot Frank has been called up. But I never thought it would happen to Liese.
I try to run to her, but my legs won't move; my hand's still behind me holding the stone. I don't know how long it is before I can move again, before I vault the wall and run to the corner of the street, but I know it's too late. The van's already moving. I watch it turn the corner and speed away.
With Liese in it.
I start to run. I run hard but the van's already racing down the street.
The van goes on, disappearing. I keep on running until I'm on my knees. Too late.
Too late.
She's gone.
I can't believe it. Why? Why her? Why now?
I turn back to the house. The door's locked but I know where the key's kept. Slowly, I unlock the door. Everything is neat and tidy.The piano lid is open—Liese's favorite piece of music is on the stand. Everything looks the same, but the house is empty of her and so everything is completely different. Where have they taken her—and why did they take all of them? Where shall I go now?
I don't know what to do.
I look out the window onto the street. I look at my watch. Six twenty-two. I'm meant to be at Mr. Frank's workplace in a few hours. We're arriving separately, all of us. We'll walk into the building just like it was any other visit—only this time we'll never walk out again.
We'll stay in there.
We don't know for how long.
I stare out the window.
The early-morning streets are empty, and so am I. I can't think of anything—except the van disappearing, and the fact that I stood there and let it happen! How did I ever think I could escape them, or fight them?
She's gone.
And I know what I'm doing.
I'm going into hiding.
I wait and watch as the streets fill with people. I wait and watch the sun get higher. I wait and watch the world come to life. I wait knowing that I'm not running anywhere because there's nowhere to run to.
I look out the window.
The world I can see isn't my world anymore—it's theirs: the National Socialist German Workers' Party's—the Nazis'. They've taken it away from me—piece by piece. I can't ride in trams or cars like everybody else. I can't swim in the same
water or sit and watch films in the same cinema. I can't shop in gentile shops. I can't sit in the street. I can't drink from the water fountains. I can't walk anywhere without a star on my chest. I can't . . . I can't . . . I can't do anything. If someone decides to attack me I can't expect any help—and I mustn't fight back. If I do, then they might beat me to death, and no one would stop them. If I don't fight back, then I'm exactly what they say I am—a cowardly Jew-boy.
I don't exist anymore. They've turned me into a nobody so that they can wipe me off the face of the earth.
It feels so obvious to me now.
I can't believe I didn't see it before.
How did I miss it?
How did I ever think I could escape?
How did I ever think I could fight?
I should leave now. It's time. I find a satchel and a spare jacket with a star sewn onto it, but then at the last minute I decide not to wear it. If this is my last walk through the city I'm going to do it free—as me—and if anything happens, if they find me—then let them.
The walk to Prinsengracht is a long way, maybe an hour. At the end of it is a warehouse; at the top of the warehouse, hidden at the back, is an annex.
No one knows it's there, except the workers who'll help hide us. Father says we're lucky, lucky he happens to be in business with Mr. Frank. Lucky Mr. Frank's asked us to join his family in hiding. I don't think so. I'd rather be in America.
I've got a diagram of the Annex. I know where to go in, which stairs I have to use, and how to find my way to the back of the house where the rooms are hidden. Where I'll be hidden.
I should go now.
If I'm going.
I'm on the street. The sun is on my face. There is no star on my chest. I'm free for another hour. One more hour. The whole world feels strange around me: pin-sharp and beautiful. Without my star I get no pitying looks. I've forgotten what it's like not to be noticed. I stop. I drink from a fountain. Mutti would be horrified. I could be arrested, killed, sent away if I was found out. A Jew, drinking from a fountain! I could infect all the non-Jews, but with what?
What is it we've got that's so evil?
"Beautiful morning!" a woman says, and smiles. I smile back, but inside I'm thinking, I'm a Jew, you stupid woman, can't you see? Can't you even tell what I am without my star to guide you? Here, I think of saying to her, put it on. If you feel so sorry for us why don't you all wear them, and then who would know the difference between us?
But I don't say anything.
I just smile back.
And walk away.
The walk is over quickly—too quickly.The wide avenues turn into the small canals and streets around the center of Amsterdam. And then I'm there. I'm at the warehouse—263 Prinsengracht. I stare at the wide, wooden warehouse doors and at the narrow door up the steps that I'm meant to go through.
I'm scared.
I want to run. I want to run and run and never stop until I find Liese. I'll hold her hand, and we'll run together until we find some woods, some hills, some caves to hide in. But there aren't any—only flatlands. We've already fled from Germany to here. And now we're surrounded. The Nazis are everywhere: Luxembourg, Belgium, France. Holland is just a small pocket in a whole coat made of Nazis. There is nowhere else for us to run. I stare at the doors.
I feel sick.
I feel the sun hot on my back.
I turn and look down the street. I shouldn't be doing this, I shouldn't be doing anything that draws attention to me— but I can't help it. I turn and look down the long, narrow street. I look at the trees and the water of the canal. I look at the people walking past me, but it doesn't matter now how long I stand here, looking. Nothing will change.
Liese's not coming back. I'm probably never going to see her again.
My name is Peter van Pels. I'm nearly sixteen years old. I walk up the stone steps and turn the handle of the narrow wooden door. I push it open and step forward. The door closes itself behind me.
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"Readers are enlightened and deeply moved....Annexed is a superb addition to the Holocaust literature, and should not be missed."—School Library Journal , starred review
"Showing equal skill in bringing history to life and in capturing the spirit of a young man searching for his identity amid chaos, Dogar has written a novel as provocative as it is devastating."—Publishers Weekly , starred review
"The lines between written record, educated guess, and fictional construct are fascinatingly blurred here. . .made all the more so when readers consider the role perspective, translation, and editing play in the written record. The book's skillful synthesis of all these facets should stimulate discussion about the nature of history, fiction, and truth."—The Bulletin , starred review
"[Annexed] is compassionate and thoughtful, told in a very intimate way. Dogar gets the claustrophobia of the annexe across brilliantly, as it escapes in pointless bickering and petty resentments, but the picture of vital, interesting people with hopes, dreams, loves and ambitions rises equally vividly from the pages. Peter himself is wonderfully drawn: painfully shy, introspective and independent of thought."—The Book Bag (UK)
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Sharon Dogar is a children's psychotherapist who lives in Oxford, England with her family. She discovered Anne Frank's diary as a child and the again recently when her daughter started reading it. While writing and researching this book, she spent many hours soaking up the atmosphere of the Annex.
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Just reading through this was difficult as it leads to the inevitable tragic ending. However, I thought it was interesting, the story being told through Peter's point of view. It's well written and although some parts were fictional, others were factual and pretty much fully accurate. As you read through the book, Peter has his 'philosophical' moments with Anne, which..I found a little odd coming from a teenage boy. However on the other hand, there were moments where Peter does act like his age - his references to Lise are frequent, and his sullen sulky moods are also prevalent. At least in that, Peter is shown acting like a teenager. During the moments where they were almost caught, still gave me a moment of panic even though I already knew what was going to happen to them. Dogar does a good job writing here, as she successfully attempts to re-create the feelings of unease, and the feelings of uncertainty the inhabitants of the Annex would have experienced. I also liked how their 'happy' moments were treasured no matter how trivial it might be. It was moments like those, that kept them going and to keep surviving no matter how bleak the situation was. What really got me the most was the part with Peter and his father. It was a touching moment that brought tears to my eyes. What Peter's father did was what any loving parent would do for their child. It's more painful as Peter came so close to surviving towards the last final days of the war. I do recommend this book to others who are interested in Anne Frank, or are into Holocaust studies. It's well written and well worth the read. It's certainly an interesting point of view as we're so used to hearing about Anne Frank.
Annexed is a really interesting look at the story of Anne Frank through the eyes of Peter. This novel will make you laugh, cry, and feel their terror as you go through the journey with the characters. Sharon got the characters spot on. Anne was portrayed perfectly from her non stop chatting to her quick emotional shifts. Peter was more revealed in this novel. Through Sharon's words you begin to see how Peter might have been in life. Introverted, smart, brave, and willing to survive, Peter was amazing. At first I just wanted him to shut up and quit whining, but as the story progressed I loved him more and more. This novel also gives a great sense of what it would be like as a Jew during this time period. Dogar isn't afraid to show the more gruesome acts that were inflicted on this people. It was enough to make you shake your head, crying. Read Annexed. It is definitely worth it
When I first started reading Annexed, I wasn't sure how I would feel about it, I had read The Diary of Ann Frank as a teen and wasn't sure how much of the story I actually remembered, but "Annexed" transported me back to Ann Frank, giving me a whole new perspective on life in the Annex, because we hear the story from the voice of Peter Van Pel, a young man just about to turn 16, who was hesitant about hiding out with the Franks, actually not really liking either of the Frank daughters but in the end, the families become close, and its easy to believe that young Peter could have fallen in love with Ann. This book is broken into two sections, with the first section giving us a glimpse of life in the Annex thru the eyes of Peter. He is a typical 16 year old boy, he grieves the loss of his first girlfriend Liese, wondering what might have happened to her when her family is taken away, knowing he and his family is going into hiding with the Frank's but dreading it. The finality of what is to be as the door closes and he spends the next two years in the Annex, the close quarters become stifling. He didn't really even like the Frank family in the beginning, but after spending time together he and Ann become close. While she expresses herself thru words he draws, and they both talk about what they will do once the war is over. Unfortunately they never get the chance to find out. The second section of the book is The Camps, which allows us to follow the Franks and the Van Pel's as they are taken on a train to the concentration camps. While it is a fictionalized account of what Peter experiences in the camp, they are reconstructed from others who survived.The accounts are so real that you can feel Peter's suffering. Hating the person he had to become in order to survive, often wondering if he was the only Jew left. In the epilogue the author gives us an actual account of what happened to the eight from the Annex. The author does an outstanding job of weaving fact with fiction,the story of Peter and the concentration camp is something I will never forget. A thought provoking story that puts a different spin on the time spent in the annex. A book that shouldn't be missed!
I LOOOVVVEEEDD this so freaking much! DO NOT LISTEN TO WHAT OTHERS ARE TELLING YOU! It is so touching and sweet and does NOT have a lot of sex in it. They simply disscuss it. But I mean- they're teenagers- with hardly any hope for the future- what're they gonna do? Play scrabble? Anyway, the part at the end had me (of all people -.- I don't cry easily) had me in tears. She tells a very beautiful story of the possible POV of Peter. A bit confusing with the name changes, but she was being respectful of you jerky die hard- we will defend Anne Franks Diary to the end- fans (Who, bless there souls, ANNOY THE HELL OUTTA ME) Besides, if this storu was boring to you Anne Franks Diary must have been a DRAAG, so go read it and weep!
Really sad in the end but overall I loved this book and I would recomend it for anyone 13+
This book made me see that we really are blessed in what we already have. We should be thankful. Very inspiring read. A definite must read.
Annexed is a book that I will definetly read again. I read the diary of Anne Frank and it made me think that Peter was hapoy to be safe, but really, he was not too thankful. I was surprised at all of the things that just popped up. Great read
This is a terribly sad tale shown through Peter's eyes. The author eloquently brings you intp the dark little attic and shows you what their world was like. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in that time period and Anne Frank.
If you liked The Diary Of Anne Frank, you will like this.
A further look into the annex, very well written except it had some dull moments.
This a great read
I have already read this book but i will read over and over but i still love it!!!
Absolutely fantastic.
It's a good book. Pretty Good I guess, you don't get really attached to any of the characters. I would recommend it to a friend....


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My fiance and I are expecting our 2nd child in August, another babygirl and we have decided on the name Reya (pronounced ray-uh) im trying to think of a good middle name to flow with this so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! :)
Middle name suggestions for Reya
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How pretty!
Reya Catherine
Reya Simone
Reya June
Reya Emerald
Reya Lorelei
Reya Madelyn
Reya Penelope
Reya Calanthe
Reya Sheridan
Reya Bellamy
Reya Francesca
Reya Noelle
Reya Naomi
Reya Kerensa
Reya Lisette
Reya Dorothy
Reya Verity
Reya Serenity
Reya Suzette
Reya Cameron
Reya Valentine
Reya Josephine
Shan: Jonas(9), Bridget(7), Daphne(3.5), Malcolm(1.5)
Roses and Cellar Doors(name nerdery)
"Though it be not written down, forget not that I am an ass."
One of my colleagues has an Aurelia and her nn is Raya. Cute!
Her mn is Grace but then Reye itself is a lot shorter than Aurelia, so I'd go with something with at least two syllables.
Reya Noelle is a lovely suggestion
Reya Lucette
Reya Elizabeth
Hayli - Mummy to Annabelle, Louis-Alexander & Everett
Aunty to Isabella & Zachary
Godmumma to Kurt, Jack, Jesse & Ayva
Reya Lynn
Reya Annette
Reya May
Reya Claire
Thank you everyone for ur suggestions!! Much appreciated!! :)
My GF has a little girl names Rayah (Ray-uh) and her middle name was Hope... as in Ray of Hope.... I said was because she later remarried and her husband adopted Rayah and changed her middle name to Esperanza (Spanish for Hope) I think both are nice
im myself tryin to decide a middle name that would go well with that name and these are the two ive come up with so far....
reya leigh/lee
reya lynn


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Chris Sale didn't intend to hit Prince Fielder with a pitch in Detroit last week, but admitted he let his temper get the best of him and his frustration was present at the time.
A's left fielder Yoenis Cespedes will bat behind Prince Fielder and Michael Cuddyer in tonight's eight-man Home Run Derby at Citi Field.
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Homare Ikeda Gallery Artist Talk April 7, 2016
Homare Ikeda Gallery Artist Talk
April 7, 2016 12:15-1:00pm
White Cube Gallery at Nalanda Campus – 6287 Arapahoe Avenue Boulder, CO 80302
Naropa University & William Havu Gallery are honored to present Homare Ikeda's paintings and drawings in the exhibition entitled "ん" from March 3 – April 15, 2016 in the White Cube and Nalanda Galleries on the Nalanda Campus (6287 Arapahoe, Boulder, CO). ん is one of Japanese hiragana alphabetical letters but is neither vowel nor consonant, and it is the last letter in addition to all other hiragana letters. Homare clarifies his title for this show, "ん?" means questioning yourself, and "ん⤵" means "yes," and "ん→" means "let me see." ん can be different meanings depending on its intonations". Being an abstract painter, he explores his vision in a wide range of media such as painting, printmaking, and drawing to mixed media on paper. Homare Ikeda was born in Yoron Island, a small subtropical island near Okinawa, Japan. He spent his childhood exploring the island and the coral reefs surrounding it. He writes, "I used to sit on the white sand beach where I could watch the horizon. Whenever a ship approached the island, I imagined the people and things I hadn't seen in the world beyond the ocean. I dreamed of becoming a sailor".
Visual Arts Faculty Showing at Dairy Center for the Arts
Visual Arts Adjunct Faculty Member, Jill Powers, is currently exhibiting at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder. Her show Holdfast: Seaweeds in a Time of Oceanic Change is currently in the Dairy's McMahon Gallery until April 3.
This installation exhibition explores the beauty and ecology of seaweeds through contemporary art and science. Education is at the heart of this exhibition which explores the critical role seaweeds play in ocean ecosystems during times of environmental change.
Jill Powers has created a visionary show, full of the sounds, movement, tastes, and vivid presence of the ocean including: video of an underwater kelp forest, seaweed-tasting station; a wall of diatom forms, salt encrusted art, luminous bull kelp sculptures and more. Art pieces will focus on themes such as: ocean upwellings, seaweed traditional harvesting, microscopic views of phytoplankton, kelp forests, seaweed holdfasts and tidal action, and more. The art will address ocean temperatures, acidification, the ocean food web, plastics in the ocean, and invasive species.
Why all this attention here in Colorado to seaweeds? The focus on ocean ecology is central to our planet's environment in a time of great stresses on the oceans. Kelp beds are the rainforests of the sea, scrubbing carbon and producing oxygen. They are an overlooked and critically important part of ocean life. Seaweeds, along with phytoplankton create from 50 to 70% of our planet's atmosphere!
Seaweed is recently being referred to as the new superfood- loaded with minerals, and preventative for disease. Culinary-wise it adds strong umami flavor and can be used in dishes all across the menu. It is recently being hailed as the "new kale". Seaweed snacks are making a huge hit in the natural foods market. Seaweed farming is a new occupation for many fishermen who have lost their livelihood, and for indigenous coastal residents needing a source of income worldwide.
Seaweeds, when seen fresh in their underwater environment, are incredibly beautiful and fascinating! The show is called Holdfast, which is named after the part of the seaweed that anchors it, even in the turbulence of the tidal surf- a metaphor for our times- Hold fast to what is important during turbulent times, staying both flexible and strong.
Jill Powers is a contemporary installation artist who works with the aesthetics and science of ecosystems. A trip to the Pacific Northwest seacoast sparked an intense interest in changes occurring in oceanic environments. The experience of kayaking through a kelp bed led to research about the subject of seaweeds and visiting ocean habitats to learn more. Her life long love of the ocean, and the beauty and captivating details of seaweed ecology drew her to create the work in this exhibition.
Jill works extensively with natural materials, including kozo- a fibrous plant material that she works by hand in a wet stage to shape into her art, perfect for creating the fluid seaweed forms. Jill also appreciates the culinary benefits of seaweeds, and has been cooking with seaweeds for 25 years.
Jill is an adjunct faculty member of Naropa University's Visual Art Department. She founded the course in Eco Art, teaches Ephemeral Art, and specializes on unusual natural materials. Her previous eco-themes have included ecological issues with bark beetles and western forests, and silkworms and insect life. She has exhibited nationally, and teaches workshops that feature unusual natural materials as art mediums.
Music Works in Progress Showing
Commedia dell'arte Performance Saturday
Don't miss world renowned Commedia dell'arte artist Antonio Fava
7:30 pm – Saturday, March 12 at the Naropa Performing Arts Center
ArscomicA, Naropa University School of the Arts & University of Colorado Boulder's Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities and Theater and Dance Department Present the US premier of:
MFA Theatre Thesis Festival – Part 1
This past weekend brought the start of the MFA Theatre: Conemporary Performance program's thesis productions.
By Any Other Name
by Teresa Veramendi
A fully embodied, ritual enactment of difference and equanimity, By Any Other Name is a collaboratively devised, interactive, multilingual performance by an international cast. Dig into words with us, and watch them burn in the most awfully beautiful rainbows.
Siren's Fury Playlist
by Leslie Grasa & Stephanie Wilbert
A musical about finding solid footing.
A woman embarks on a dream-like journey to the Underworld to find…well, she's not exactly sure what she's looking for yet she's pretty sure she'll know it when she sees it…pretty sure…. Whatever it is, it will end all her suffering and pain and, once she finds it, she knows her life will forever be rainbows and roses. With the help of a mysterious Guide (who may have ulterior motives), she soon realizes that, in order to complete her quest, she must face the Demons of the underworld who confront her with an old story of disability, physical pain, loss and grief. What will she do when going forward to claim her prize means facing her deepest fears, while going back means letting them continue to control her as they have her entire life?
Stay tuned for information about upcoming thesis performances!
Opening of Exhibit in Paramita Gallery
By Jor-El Zajatz (Visual Arts Instructor at Naropa)
March 7 – April 17, 2106
Paramita Gallery/Paramita Campus/3285 30th Street, Boulder, CO
Naropa University is honored to showcase the photography of Jor-El Zajatz in the upcoming exhibit BUS STOP TO BARDO CAPTURING THE LIMINAL. Join us for the opening reception Monday, March 7th, 5:00-7:00 p.m. This powerful showcase will be held at Naropa University Paramita Campus in the Paramita Gallery, 3285 30th Street, Boulder, Colorado. Jor-El has been a photographer for 15 years, double majored in Psychology and Visual Art at Naropa University, and continually experiments with the interplay of psychology and art.
Jor-El Zajatz is a photographer whose work explores the relationship of the human psyche to the environment. The exhibit, Bus Stop to Bardo, presents three series that explore the human connection to the environment and how awareness of transitional states can provide the opportunity to either form a deeper connection to with our world or create tension from imposition of our agenda.
- Everyday Spirituality asks the question, how you connect with your spirituality on a daily basis. Through the use of triptych photography, the series shows how five people connect to their world and transcend their sense of self.
- Inner Nature explores the relationship formed when one connects deeply with a landscape that calls to them and serves as a tranquil place to return to no matter where one finds themselves.
- Free-Range Geometry works with the tension that arises when natural form within an environment is challenged through constructing artificial geometry into those landscapes.
Jor-El is a freelance photographer who has worked with clients on a variety of projects ranging from websites to weddings. His photography has been featured on websites such as National Geographic and Outward Bound. When not taking on freelance clients, Jor-El is working as adjunct faculty in the Visual Arts Department of Naropa University teaching photography. For more information about the exhibition contact: Charmain Schuh at email@example.com or 303-245-4637.
Naropa University welcomes participants with disabilities. Persons with questions about accessibility or who require disability accommodations should contact Charmain Schuh at firstname.lastname@example.com or 303-546-3549.
Exhibit in White Cube Gallery Opens March 3
Naropa University & William Havu Gallery
Homare Ikeda
March 3 – April 15, 2016
Meet the Artist Reception: March 3 from 5:30-8:00 p.m.
Gallery Artist Talk: April 7, 2016 from 12:15 – 1:30 p.m.
Gallery hours: M-F from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Naropa University & William Havu Gallery are honored to present Homare Ikeda's paintings and drawings in the exhibition entitled "ん" from March 3 – April 15, 2016 in the White Cube and Nalanda Galleries on the Nalanda Campus (6287 Arapahoe, Boulder, CO). Meet the Artist reception on March 3rd from 5:30-8:00 p.m. with refreshments and appetizers. Gallery hours: M-F from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
ん is one of Japanese hiragana alphabetical letters but is neither vowel nor consonant, and it is the last letter in addition to all other hiragana letters. Homare explains his title for this show, " "ん?" means questioning yourself and "ん⤵" means "yes," and "ん→" means "let me see." ん can be different meanings depending on its intonations". Being an abstract painter, he explores his vision in a wide range of media such as painting, printmaking, drawing to mixed media on paper.
Homare Ikeda was born in Yoron Island, a small subtropical island near Okinawa, Japan. He spent his childhood exploring the island and the coral reefs surrounding it. He writes, "I used to sit on the white sand beach where I could watch the horizon. Whenever a ship approached the island, I imagined the people and things I hadn't seen in the world beyond the ocean. I dreamed of becoming a sailor". In 1978, he moved to the United States. He received BFA and MFA from University of Colorado at Boulder. He is now surrounded by mountains but longs for the bottom of the ocean – his works are filled with both of these environments.
Join us in the White Cube Gallery on Thursday, April 7th for an intimate talk with Homare about his life and creativity from 12:15-1:30 p.m. For more information contact email@example.com or 303-245-4637.
Undergraduate Film Project
Enjoy these student films from Fall 2015′s course Writing 344 – Literature Seminar: Shakespeare.
Visual Arts Professor Appointed Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow
Naropa Visual Arts Professor, Gina Adams, was recently appointed as a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow. Earlier this month, she presented at the annual conference of the College Art Association. You can read more about her presentation here.
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Jennifer Lopez's new makeup-free selfie is absolutely flawless -- and it also features one adorable special guest.
Jennifer Lopez's new makeup-free selfie is absolutely flawless -- and it also features one adorable special guest.
It might seem surprising, since Jennifer Lopez has been around for over 20 years, but 2014 is definitely the year of Jenny from the Block. The Latina has created a seriously impressive and diverse empire, and with her eighth studio album about to drop, there's no doubt her brand will only continue to grow.
Pitbull, Jennifer Lopez and Brazilian singer Claudia Leitte danced and sang their way through the opening ceremony of the 2014 World Cup in Sao Paulo, Brazil to the rousing tune of 'We Are One.'
Jennifer Lopez and her boyfriend Casper Smart have reportedly ended their relationship after two and a half years.
Jennifer Lopez, fresh off of receiving the Icon Award at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards, has announced she'll be releasing her first book 'True Love' this upcoming fall.
Jennifer Lopez took it the streets with her recent hit song 'I Luh Ya Papi,' which reminded us of her 'Jenny From the Block' days, as it is a super urban track. Now, new single 'First Love' has leaked online and it shows us the breadth and scope of the diva's new work, since it's a dancefloor jam.
Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull are bringing the heat and have teamed up once again! The duo has repeatedly proven its explosive musical and vocal chemistry and the partnership has served them well in the past. So it makes sense that they've linked up again, this time for 'We Are One (Ole Ola),' the 2014 FIFA World Cup Song.
Jennifer Lopez is currently showing up on our small screens as a returning judge on Season 13 of 'American Idol,' a gig she held in 2011 and 2012. The singer/actress/designer/reality show star aka quadruple threat, who is also the mom of twins, is also returning to episodic television, as she will star in and executive produce the NBC cop drama 'Shades of Blue.'
Jennifer Lopez and her bodacious booty went back to her native The Bronx to film the video for her upcoming single 'Same Girl.' She even shared some pics from the experience and all we can say is "Whoa!"
T. Swizzle x J. Lo? On a song? Yes, that's the rumor.
The peeps at 'American Idol' -- really Jennifer Lopez, who is said to be returning after a season off, and the producers — are rallying to get Scooter Braun on the restructured judging panel.
It's official: Country star Keith Urban will be back on the 'American Idol' judging panel this season, making him the only judge from last year who's returning. But, uh, how would you feel about a judge from two years ago? Because producers are also reportedly trying to woo Jennifer Lopez -- again.
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