I am so fed up with my job laptop! The internet connection is terrible and downloading emails took me 1 and 1/2 hours this afternoon. I have had no reply to my request for broadband!!
The girls are now off school for the summer holiday!!! I listened to parents at end of year assemblies saying how they were looking forward to having their children home for 7 weeks. I am riddled with guilt knowing that I dread it. I am going to try really hard this year tp be more positive. I wonder if these other Moms are really looking forward to it or just trying to convince themselves they are? I have told Eric that we must try and DO things this year rather than just let the weeks glide by.
As I mentioned we have been attending school EOT assemblies. Alice's was yesterday. They did a kiwi-ised version of a childrens story. It was so funny and the whole school participated. I never fail to be impressed by the support the schools here get from families of their children. The hall was packed and overflowing - literally. Alice had a lovely report pointing often to her kindness, consideration and helpfulness. Her literacy skills are way above her year level but I feel she lives in Harriette's shadow sometimes and doesn't believe she's as good as she is. Harriette's assembly was today and she recieved one of the 6 awards given for acaedenic excellence for her year. Her report was excellent and said at one point that "the depth of her vocabulary is outstanding and her peers are often in awe of her knowledge". It also said things like "Having a tidy desk may help Harriette to be more organised"!!!
The weather is still so up and down. Yesterday was gorgeous in the afternoon and the wind even dropped for awhile, it's back today!
We came hone today to find strangers poking around in Claire and Ians woolshed. I was just about to call out "Can I halp you?" which is code for 'who are you and what are you doing?' when I realised that they are probably prospective buyers! I therefore just offered a friendly wave. Needless to say Eric had the bino's up peering at them from the dining room and assessing whether or not a)they could afford the place and b)did we want them as neighbours. I wonder how they would feel reading this in a years time when they have moved in and we are all best of friends?!?!
Had some, not so good, news from Mom and Daddy today. They went to NZ House to deliver their application for residency last night (well yesterday for them - you know what I mean) and were told that the limit on residency visas for family sponsorship had been reached for this year and their application would not be processed until July 2005. I didn't know they had a quota even! Anyway they now have to think about coming out for a very long holiday while they await a decision.
Richard and Robyn coming for supper tomorrow night. They have such a hectic social life that we have had to resort to catching up mid week with them as their weekends are chocoblock!!!! (I can see Robyn laughing as she is always saying they never go out!!) Still with them up early 7 days a week and the girls now on holiday I guess it makes no difference to them.
I am off to teach in Hamilton tomorrow - the last of the MeNZB training sessions. Should be interesting as for the midwives session we only have one person booked in! I'll let you know how it goes. That's it for now. Serious Xmas card writing tonight.
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