The three old foogies were at Notre Dame College today,and we had our first group conversation class,with the students I think they are grade 9. (To make things easier for the the students to comprehend, Fr Swavic suggested to me and Tony to say we had 13 children and not to elaborate) Of course that was one of the questions they asked us, how many sisters and brothers I had, and they nearly fainted when I told them how many sisters and brothers I had, then when I said I had 13 children I almost had to pick them up off the floor. And twenty grandchildren,my goodness one boy said pointing around the room more than a whole class room, I could see the awe in their faces, unbelieveable!!! (I think some of the boys thought Tony was a bit of a stud,) well yeh they are very impressionable! poor kids, he lapped it up of course, and all the young girls thought he was gorgeous, blue eyes and silver hair, almost swooning they were, but there is no accounting for peoples taste is there now?.
We had great fun with them the students are delightful and soooo shy I'm amazed.
We were then invited to the hall where there was a festival day affair on, and as you can see these things hanging across the room, with questions and numbers on them, there were 15 in English,made especially for us, kind of trivia questions ( now you all know how much I enjoy trivia) so that turned me on no end, but I did get into the swing of it and got 7 out of 15 correct. Which was a amazing for me as it's not my forte at the best of times, the picture below gives an idea of how it was arranged, hundreds of them, I couldn't get a good idea of them.
This is a lantern made by the students, as you can see its on its side, I forgot to turn it upright and I don't know how to delete it from the blog
These are really beautiful and made out of paper
Then we were invited up on the stage and each given a skewer with a ribbon on it and invited to burst all the balloons this gave great mirth to the students to see the principal, deputy and us bursting all the balloons
This next photo is a girl called Christina and she asked if I would be her friend
The weather has become very cold here again, and all the windows in the schools are kept open but all the teachers run around in fur coats and scarves. I had to buy another jacket I explained to Tony I needed to look the part!!
Tomorrow Tony and myself are off to St Eugene Primary School and we know our work load there is much more structered and busier, so looking forward to that.
The photos are a bit scarce but once we get going I'll try and get a few every day.
Every night there is singing coming up from the playground courts it starts at 7pm and goes on until 11pm and honestly it's the most awful stuff you ever heard, but we have got used to it and can even sleep through it.
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