It -9 degrees and the children are all skating after school and Lucy is just wearing a T-shirt under her coat!! As you can see Charlie is the only one to have really embraced the Canadian National sport, Lucy just walks around the ice on her skates, and Ned looks more like Bambi!! The bloke in the video is Ned's teacher Mr G....a real dude!!
The children have been at school 3 weeks now and have all settled in beautifully. The day is longer than in England, starting at 8.30 and with very few breaks in the day until home time at 3.30 to make up for the fact that they only do a 4 day week so that the families here can take advantage of the mountain and ski on Fridays. They also have homework every night, even Lucy, and not just reading and spellings, they all have maths and Ned has been doing book reviews and essay planning and writing. I quite like cramming it all into 4 days though knowing that there are 3 days off coming up!
The weather here has been weird, last week it snowed continuously, and the snow just kept piling up on the sides of the roads higher and higher until you couldn't see the buildings behind, then this week when we went to Kelowna it was 12 degrees..positively balmy, it was even 1-2 degrees on the mountain, unheard of in January!
This weekend we're taking a trip to Vancouver, a 4-5 hour drive weather permitting, which is just down the road to Canadians! We're all really excited, it's meant to be an amazing and beautiful city.
Charlie your skating is fabulous! Victoria is very impressed and keeps watching the video! Lucy definitely seems very comfortable walking on the ice, even if it isn't quite skating yet! Glad school is going well. We have a very disappointed Victoria as the long awaiting Eden Project school trip is on the day we leave for Canada! I have spent the evening explaining we are going somewhere far more exciting.....! Have a lovely time in Vancouver. XX
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