Busy, busy, busy

I've been really busy since school went back - my hours have increased so I have four classes now (last year I had three). The increase in time is more than 25% though - seems like 200%! I am doing a digital camera course at the local Community Education; hopefully I'll be able to use my camera with all its functions at the end.

At Intermediate, the pupils earn "Merits" for example, when they get 99/100 on Basic facts, they get a Basic Facts Merit. Well, Ross got his within a week of being there.

Colin loves his new teacher - Mark Kyne - and I am pleased as I asked for Colin to be in his class.

Adrian is very busy at work but loving it. He is doing a Web Page design course at Com Ed and is enjoying that too.

I had some news from my sister-in-law this week: she and my niece are going on a three day scrapping cruise!! That sounds so wonderful and I am envious of the two of them

Painting Update

Well, the decks are done, as is the gate next to the garage and the shed outside. Adrian and Colin also sanded back the garage doors and put new oil onto them. I have now bought the third 10 litre bucket of paint and hopefully this weekend will be fine so we can waterblast and paint the fence.

February!

First of February today and I had a department meeting at school while the boys went to the pool with Gay-Gay and Pa. School starts next week and not a moment too soon for the boys - seven weeks is waaaay too long for me to have them at home! I was really pleased to go scrapping on Saturday and managed to get quite a few l/os done (two above).

On Friday night, Adrian and I went to see Memoirs of a Geisha, which was very good. We saw it at the Lighthouse cinema, where one sits in couches to watch the movie. The is also a cafe where one can get food and drinks to have in the movies. After the movie we had dinner at a little Thai place in Petone - a very pleasant evening indeed!