Angela (which she pronounced as "AHN-heh-lah" when speaking Spanish and as "ANJ-eh-luh" when speaking English) was Tom's fifteen-year-old sister-in-la.... Like all of Arnulfo Montez's four daughters, she was a lovely girl. Ever since I had served as Tom's best man in his black-tie society wedding the year before, I had developed a keen appreciation of the sisters' charms, and I always tried to take any opportunity to spend some time in the company of one or more of them. Most often, this meant. After the first day, they didn’t even think of the exercises as tests at all. The got the next two school days off while the teachers decided on what to do with them. On the Friday, they were called in to do interviews with their parents and to decide their curriculum for the rest of the year.Gloria had described to humans on the ship the strange way they taught here. Lee had adopted a version of the Genteli school system. Here your age was irrelevant. It was all about what you could do, what. We’ve laughed and sung songs and we even got to eat at a hotel with just us kids. It was like we were grown up and we all acted like our aunts and mommas taught us,” Kit told him as she hugged his neck and kissed his face like his own daughters.Eli looked up to see Ruby sitting beside Isaac, with a big grin on her face, her teeth shining white through her dry, cracked and dusty lips. When he held his arms out, she leaped into them, knowing he would catch her.“Eli, I love you like you are my own. I didn't think we had enough men though. "I don't want to offend our Russian and Japanese male counterparts, but knowing you and Anya don't you think we should ask Gene and George to come over?"She chuckled, but went to make the call and see. It was perhaps fifteen minutes before they arrived. Danil, Aleksandr, Dogo, and Hogo showed up at about the same time.The conversation around the table halted as soon as the food was set down. Most of it I didn't recognize and had to ask about. The.