So we are 6 weeks in!
I can't quite believe how the time has flown. We have settled in quite well - I think anyway.
The kids received their mid-term (mid-term already, didn't they just start term?!) and I'm not sure whether the teachers are just trying to ease us in but all the kids received glowing remarks :-) The boys received no marks but got fantastic comments from their homeroom teachers. When we originally registered at the school we made an important decision in consultation with Jen to let her redo her first year of high-school (for a list of reasons really) but unfortunately the school bumped her up a year by mistake. We decided to ride it out and see how she did but it became clear a couple of weeks in that we needed to make some changes. Everything pointed to moving her down as originally decided and so thats what we did. .. anyhow that was a long way of telling you that her report was a bit more complicated and in the end her progress report was for the work she did in Gr7 even though she is know in Gr6. The most exciting bit of that long story is that our daughter got A's and B's!! Silly child - she has no self-confidence in her own intelligence!And thus what we are now focused on. Homework is a nightmare but she is slowing but surely getting hershit act together.
Clays last week or so have been a bit bleh - he has been hectically busy at work and had to do a quick trip up to the mine all while nursing some kind or viral parasite tummy thing. He's feeling much better now and so am I as his trip to *inthethroesofelectioralunrest* Guinea has been postponed again.
I can't quite believe how the time has flown. We have settled in quite well - I think anyway.
The kids received their mid-term (mid-term already, didn't they just start term?!) and I'm not sure whether the teachers are just trying to ease us in but all the kids received glowing remarks :-) The boys received no marks but got fantastic comments from their homeroom teachers. When we originally registered at the school we made an important decision in consultation with Jen to let her redo her first year of high-school (for a list of reasons really) but unfortunately the school bumped her up a year by mistake. We decided to ride it out and see how she did but it became clear a couple of weeks in that we needed to make some changes. Everything pointed to moving her down as originally decided and so thats what we did. .. anyhow that was a long way of telling you that her report was a bit more complicated and in the end her progress report was for the work she did in Gr7 even though she is know in Gr6. The most exciting bit of that long story is that our daughter got A's and B's!! Silly child - she has no self-confidence in her own intelligence!And thus what we are now focused on. Homework is a nightmare but she is slowing but surely getting her
Clays last week or so have been a bit bleh - he has been hectically busy at work and had to do a quick trip up to the mine all while nursing some kind or viral parasite tummy thing. He's feeling much better now and so am I as his trip to *inthethroesofelectioralunrest* Guinea has been postponed again.
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