Time is ticking along and today marks the official beginning of our 6-week summer holiday, although if I am being honest, mine has kinda started already...the senior School has finished for the year, so no more relief teaching for me this year. What’s a girl to do?!
A brief update on our latest events:
Last weekend we tried to get ourselves into the Christmas spirit and took the ferry into the CBD for the Santa Claus Parade. It was a horrible experience, never again! It was BUSY and LONG and HOT. We stood around, 10 people deep in the crowd and waited an hour for the parade to get to us and then the parade was an hour + long. There were some cool floats, but nothing spectacular enough to WOW us:)
Siena’s netball team wrapped up a fun season with a win on the court and a win for best dressed team. They were the Belmont Beestings.
Siena qualified in high jump for her the interschool athletics day, where she ended up placing 2nd in her 9-year-old girls category.
And...LICE...grrrr! Until now, both kids had managed to avoid getting lice...and if you know me at all, it’s a bit of a ‘thing’ for me, something I have always dreaded because of S’s long, blond and curly hair. What can I say, I called in sick (not cool as a relief teacher...oops!) and spent the better part of 7 hours picking through Siena’s hair section by section to get all of the eggs. We then treated her hair with coconut & tea tree oil overnight for 3 nights in a row. I was diligent all week and think we have eradicated it. Of course, not without ME managing to get it too. ARGH! Mike was a Saint and picked through my hair...but fortunately we found it early & it took much less time! Let’s hope THAT is behind us FOREVER!!
One day last week I ran into Jonah down at the beach during school. I took my PE class down (yeah, like that would ever happen at home!) and Jonah was down there with his ‘Get Fit Fast’ elective. I couldn’t pass up on the photo op and fortunately Jonah still thinks I am cool enough to take a picture with me:) As you can see, I was not dressed to teach PE that day!
In other big news, last weekend we booked four tickets to Cambodia in May. I have been keen to take the kids somewhere culturally very different and during my research, Cambodia really piqued my interest. I figure that we are as close as we will ever be to SE Asia, so why not, right?! We still have lots of planning to do, but I am very excited about our 2-week adventure.
Next week is a big week of end of year prizegivings, Secret Santas, picnics and then school holidays begin.
We are very much looking forward to celebrating Christmas ‘Kiwi style’, on a beach in the Coromandel with kayaks, body boards & a BBQ.
Stay tuned for our Merry Christmas from New Zealand message. XO
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