Birgit’s friend and neighbour Steffi, also mother of Max, who is in Ben and Nick’s class asked a few days ago if I might like to join her in a class called drums alive. My wonderful Ingrid agreed to mind my children (plus two other ones, Jana and her friend Nele…who are of course easy because they are eleven and girls) and so off I went to drum on big swiss balls that we set in a huge bucket, a bit like an egg cup, and we learnt a few different choreographies and then drummed to music.
It’s a good little workout and I must say I enjoyed having the music as I hadn’t really done anything to music since the eighties! Lucky me, Steffi organised for me to go for the next three Wednesdays. Very pleased with that, as my other exercise is of course not quite as much as my poor old body is used to from back home.
Ingrid managed to tame the wild children here and as they went to bed a little later than in the last week I am hopeful that Nick might sleep past 4:00am tomorrow!
I will move my Apple appointment from Friday to Saturday or Monday by the way as there is a chance that Steffi’s husband can sort the issue out for me on Friday afternoon without having to completely shut it down, which would mean loosing every setting and App etc on it.
That would be awesome, I will keep you posted.
The children are still enjoying school, Tessa had her first English lesson yesterday when she got to help the other children, which she enjoyed. Her English teacher has asked her to make a presentation on New Zealand, of course in English so she is quite looking forward to this. We are looking things up for her to use, pictures etc.
The boys had their first English lesson today and also got to help others and the children there could ask them questions. They too liked it.
They all get really tired from school and this afternoon was very challenging, but I ended up putting Nick into one room, Tessa into the second and Ben in the third and we had peace for an hour. After that we all went outside with Jana, Nele and Ingrid and the walking and being outside always helps with grumpiness! We found a great little place called “Fossie House’ which is a ten minute walk from here. It’s a lovely wooden house in a small forest area with a great outdoor space and it is staffed each afternoon by four social workers/educators and any primary school child can come by and play from 14:00 until 17:00. Parents can stay, or not, and on our visit today they boys as well as the three girls (Jana and Nele used to go there when they were a bit smaller) had a really good time in the garden with go carts, pulling vehicles, big wooden horses with real saddles available for mounting them, a soccer goal, a sand pit and lots of huge puddles to get dirty and wet in.The normal contribution if the children attend regularly is Euro 2 per month, which of course is crazy cheap.
I better go and have my shower now….
Ciao
Tanja