Another week has just flown by in the rush of normality! Except…..the sun shone all week and everyday reached into the high teens! It is now officially Printemps –Spring!! It really has been like someone threw the switch and it changed overnight. WOW, what a difference to have the sun on your back. I did hope it was all up from here- however the forecast looks for snow early next week.
I finally got a box sent home full of resources from here – a costly exercise but one that will be repeated at least 2 more times!
Neville got invited out for St Paddy’s day! He trotted into town to meet John and his mate (an english teacher) he also caught up with John the kiwi! He had a great time.
Uni this week for me has got really hard – so much emphasis on the written work and the grammar! Haven’t enjoyed this week at all, it must be hard for everyone else too as on Friday there were only 2 of us – more intensive tuition! This seems to be a problem every Friday!
The girls came home with a notice advertising that Saturday was Carnavale in our ‘quartier’ suburb. A bit of a mystery to us and not sure what to expect, the girls made masquerade masks in the morning and then wore their Moroccan dresses. We wandered off to the church for the rendez-vous but on the way a lady in a car stopped and told us that the meeting point had changed to the Intermarché (supermarket). As we rounded the corner we were met with many (200) people in fancy dress – young, teens and older people! It looked great – some fantastic costumes. As it was the meeting point there were different groups getting together and practising dance moves.
An African drumming group and people with other instruments playing music. A lady came around handing out incredibly noisy balloon squeaky things and whistles.We then headed off for a walk around the district with the drummers and large dance groups in front.
We finished in another school’s playground where there was entertainment and food available. We had a choir, hiphop dance group, African drummers, and dancers, then all the children learnt an African dance. It was great! Sitting in the sun soaking up the entertainment. 
This weather has inspired Nev in his running again, he had been trying to go out in the winter but it really was miserable and at times too dangerous with snow and ice on footpaths, so this week he has been out 5x!
Sunday was peaceful – the girls disappeared outside and built huts and things and we weeded the school gardens and picked up all the rubbish again in the school grounds.
A big disaster – the TV we had been given, very old and extremely heavy – finally gave up completely today. Amazing how much you rely on it for normal things like the News and weather. We all also enjoyed “Roue de la Fortune” (Wheel of Fortune) and “Prendre ou a Laisser” (Deal or No Deal). SO we will have to rely completely on the internet now for news in the world!
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