MY MOM IS IN SOUTH AFRICA!
December 2, 2010
Sorry for the lack of posts lately! I have been so busy and trying get everything in I can! :) My mom will arrive in South Africa in ONE WEEK! She will get here on the 9th in the evening and she will have to meet the amazing people I have met here! Then on that Saturday her and I will make a quick trip to Cape Town to do some fun touristy things together as well as meet up with April and Nichole! :)
SOoooo EXCITED!
Let’s recap last week!
After I recovered from being sick I headed back to school Wednesday November 24th! Obviously we had school here even though at home you have Thanksgiving break! :) This was the week of the Play Performance! YAY! Wednesday night I did not make it to the play because of a horrible headache but Thursday the 25th (Thanksgiving!) I was able to help backstage. The girls put on a stunning performance! The girls from my class represented France and Ghana, they all sit on the stage and go on and off for their dance to a song from their country! It was so cute!
Friday the 26th the girls did the play performance for the final time to the entire school! They did an outstanding job again! After break the girls headed back to their rooms, there were a few things going on in grade 1 so I visited Marvine’s classroom during their Fancy Nancy Theme! It was so cute! The girls were allowed to dress up in their “civvies” (clothes that are not their uniform!) .
They did all sorts of fancy things based on the children’s book Fancy Nancy! Painted each others toe-nails, made bracelets, crowns, and other cute girly things! See what I mean about the joys of being in an all-girl school! You can be so girly! :)
I walked home from school today because it was so nice out and Sherryl stayed home because she had been feeling sick still! While I was at school she was preparing a turkey and with the recipes my mom provided I got home and helped make cheesy potatoes, green bean casserole, corn and turkey. She also prepared a pumpkin pie! Marvine joined us for a true Thanksgiving and it was delicious! I was so happy to have a little reminded of home and it was a great meal! Well done!
Saturday morning I hit the gym with Mel. In the afternoon we got in the car and did a small road trip to Jeffrey's Bay or Jay Bay. Here is a large Billabong Factory store and other surfer shops. Jay-Bay hosts a huge Billabong Surfing Competitions and is said to be the best waves!
We got home and I got ready for Marvine to pick me up for Jay’s 21st Birthday Dinner at the Cape Town Fish Market! It was a delicious meal! Their 21st birthdays are much classier than ours! It is like entering adult-hood where ours is basically a bar event with friends. Jay’s family set up a wonderful dinner full of champagne and lovely speeches! It was the cutest and so fun! The following Sunday we spent spending some of Jay’s birthday money on cool gifts for her and eating lunch together!
I got prepared for my last true week of student teaching at Collegiate that Sunday and off to bed!
Monday November 29th back to school! We are nearing the end so just wrapping everything up and entering our Christmas themed week! We are working on Consonant Vowel Consonant words (CVC) like cut, bit, pin, etc. and then adding Fairy E (Magic E or Silent E) to the end! Which changes the short vowel to a long vowel! I did a lesson on Fairy E on Wednesday!
I transformed into Fairy E, wand and all! I was fluttering along with all my CVC words but lost ALL my fairy E’s! I sprinkled my lost Fairy E’s among the girls on the carpet having them each find one! On the board I displayed (displayed for Priscilla! Not, “I stuck on, or up!”) enough CVC words for each girl to have a chance to place their Fairy E on the end and transform it with my magic wand! Girls came up and placed the ‘E’s’ on the CVC words and had to say the word before and after the magic Fairy E wand transformation! They seemed to enjoy it! I assigned some sentences on the board in their lined books while I did small group reading lessons, if the girls finished they had plenty of other activities to complete, candy stick ornaments (candy cane) and a fairy picture to color. After break, we all made our very own Fairy E wands! :)
So this week has been a lot of cutesy activities for Christmas and I have also been helping another student with prep for the next grade ones which will come in January! I have been assisting in label making and such and will help more Friday and next week with that. I have also been assisting in a swimming gala with our students to see how they place and determine times and such, I was never a swimmer so I am not so sure on the whole thing but its fun! I was a timer on Tuesday and Friday I will be like a score recorded/walker thing! Just helping out!
On Wednesday night I went with Marvine to babysit for a family who has three daughters at Collegiate Junior! Wonderful family! I am going to help chaperone a birthday party on Friday with Marvine for this family too! They also have a holiday home near a fun activity we are doing on Saturday morning, so I hope we can stop by and say hi! It was a pleasure entering this families beautiful home and the girls are nothing but sweet! They also have a jack Russell puppy who I may or may not have almost stashed away in my Vera because it was so cute! It slept in my arms the entire night! So maybe I did more of a dog sit and Marvine entertained the girls :)
Tomorrow is my favorite brother’s birthday!
Happy Birthday Jason!
Tomorrow I am working another swimming event from 8-10 in the morning. Then we are having a teddy picnic outside after break with all the grade-ones and having ice cream! :) The grade one girls get to wear their civvies tomorrow and are encouraged to wear red for AIDS awareness… I don’t have any red! :(
Friday evening, I am helping chaperone that birthday party with Marvine! We are going to do a picture chase challenge and there will be 12 girls in 4 teams. The teams will each go with an adult in a car and be given clues to go to random places in PE! Once they figure out the clue they will have to do something random there and capture it with a photo!
Marvine is organizing the clues!
Ok here is the big kicker, Saturday morning…
Janine, Iain, Marvine and I will be going to…
Bungy jump :)
It is the World’s highest bungy bridge called Bloukrans Bridge!
Check it out:
Wish me luck! Picture to Follow!
xoxo
Miss Godmar
