Entry from Rose and Xyla

Welcome to folks who are visiting for the first time...

Short notes from Rose and Xyla:

I am having fun at school.  We have a uniform and the shirt is green.  The sweater is green, too.  You can have a checked dress or a white shirt and gray skirt.  Green or gray tights are okay and white tights are okay.  You can also wear white socks.

On the weekends we always go on long trips.  I am wearing pressure bands on my wrists to keep from getting car sick. 

-Xyla


It's raining here.

At school, we have to listen to our teacher.  We are in first grade here.  It is not a Montessori school.  We have snacks and we buy them for 20 p.  Twenty p means 20 pence.  It has the picture of the Queen on it.

At school we can buy lunch.  The people who cook lunch are Janice and Jill.  In this school you have to do whatever everybody else is doing.  You do not get to choose what you want because our class is a little small.  There are 30 people in it.  My dad is one of the people who helps at lunchtime. 

-Rose

Indeed, we have successfully negotiated the school uniform and it is quite liberating for your children when they know there are few options in the morning when they dress for school.  Well, I don't know if it is liberating for them, but the house, at least, has been liberated from the conflict that can sometimes accompany the morning as two six-year-olds vie for the same shirt or skirt or whatever. 

School goes well and I have been afforded an insider's view as I not only help at lunch in the cafeteria and playground on Mondays and Wednesdays, but I also help read with students once a week.  The school is smaller than the New School, and while the classrooms are regular size, they seem smaller with the weight of 30 students.

As Xyla reports, we usually get out and about and have done quite a bit in the Peak District and in the Cheshire Valley.  There are tons of walks here and there is a wide range of possibilities from walking in farmland to walking in the nearly barren moors of the Peaks.  Carsickness is part of our experience and our first outing with the pressure wristbands seem to be helping with this.  We will see if they continue to come through for us.

I write here most days and you can get a pretty good idea of how things are going here by checking out the archive.  In addition to the entries here, I have a couple of months' worth at the iWeb page.  Click the link found in the sidebar to go there.

Hope all in Lancaster are well!

Steve