The day started off with jane and i going to a sports club not too far away from where we live to look at swimming lesson options for the girls. it also had a rather nice gym which might be ideal for jane so she can meet fellow stay-at-homers over Pilates (whatever that is).
the place trains some of the best atheletes in NZ, including the NZ olympic swimming squad. like all things kiwi it seems completely down to earth and you get the feeling you could be on a running machine alongside some world champion something or other.
except i wouldn’t be, as i don’t do that kind of exercise (or any other at the moment it seems – ho hum)
anyway, the girls are being ‘assessed’ next week to see what level/kind of swimming group they might go in and we might also put the girls in to this so they can get some sea swimming experience.
after that we drove up to Otewa to look at a secondary school option then went for a drive down a sticky outy land thing (see google map below)
it was really windy today so felt like 10-12 degrees most of the day. chilly chillsome. it looks like jane is wearing a baseball cap in the picture, but it’s just her hair blowing away
there’s a bay out that way called ‘Big Manly Beach’. We resisted the obvious picture (given the state of my physique) and went for this photos of manly price cutter.
meanwhile at school Kezia has a visit from New Zealand’s strongest man, who is also the 5th strongest man in the world. she said he said (etc) that he eats 24 eggs a day and like broccoli. he’s a friend of one of the dads of a kid in her class apparently. it’s a very small world over here.
he signed her drinking water bottle but i guess when you are the strongest man in the country you can pretty much sign anything and no one is going to stop you.
after school we went to the local library. kezia has homework this week. here are her spellings. we’ve now reached the stage where i have to check her attempts against the spellings in her book as i don’t know how to spell most of the words.
the interesting thing is that each pupil gets to chose the words they need to learn themself. she decided to choose some difficult ones. good on ‘er i say. but wonder if she’ll do the same next week.
AND IN OTHER NEWS: the compulsory hat is also now found so we have two girls reunited with their uniforms. hoorah !
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Those words look really hard, Kezia. I didn’t learn most of them until year 4 or 5.