Today we started learning how to use our pens to draw straight lines and circles. You may think it sounds easy. Well its not. A very discouraging day indeed. I know what I am going to do all weekend. These pens are buggers. I have ink blotches all over my fingers and my paper was full of splodges and smears. Drawing a perfect circle with a compass so that the line is even all the way round and one cannot tell see any overlap what so ever for the end point was not fun.
Round out the day with a letter from the kids' school notifying me of an outbreak of head lice.
Sep 25, 2007
Sep 24, 2007
School Days are here again
Well, I am now in my second week of school. Today the allure of taking the train into London every week, twice a week for the next nine months, has gone. That didn't take long!
First off-despite my best intentions of waking up at 6 to get in a little exercise and eat a bit of breakfast in order to make the 7:55 train-didn't pan out. I slept in due to a bad night's sleep (still sleeping on a twin mattress on the floor) so no exercise. I did eat and had a cup of coffee made by my loving husband. However I had to run the whole way to the station. There is another train 5 minutes later, but it is a slow one. I managed to get there, buy my tickets, run up and over the tracks just as the train pulled in. No sooner did the train leave then the rain started coming down in buckets. Hope the nanny feels comfortable enough to drive the kids to school
Once in London I ran to Boots for some tissues (nagging cold), chap stick and over to M & S for lunch and water. I take the fast train to ensure a good hour to get to class. Just as I walk over to the tube station alarms start up and the doors close. There is a huge crowd standing around waiting to enter while swarms are exiting. I am hoping it is just crowd control and not some disaster because the bus takes almost 1.5 hours and I can't remember which ones to take anyway. I send Jason a quick text to find out what is going on-signal failure at Kings Cross has just caused the closure of the Circle Line (the one I need). Fantastic.
After about 10 minutes the doors open back up and they let the cattle in. A made dash to my platform where the notice board says a train will arrive in 10 minutes. An announcement reveals it will only go one stop. Ok-I can catch the District Line from there and still get to my stop. After 10 minutes the board changes to 'delayed' with not sign of any trains. I quickly run out and over to the Central Line, standing room only. My only option is to take this train a few stops, get out and Bank and take a fast hike to the Monument station (up and up and down the stairs because the escalators are not working). It is a good 10-15 minute walk. From Monument I catch a District Line train and get to my stop with 15 minutes to walk the 10-12 minute walk to my class. Of all the days to forget my deodorant. Ah well-I fit in with everyone else now HA!
I walked thru the door with 2 minutes to spare and out of breath.
First off-despite my best intentions of waking up at 6 to get in a little exercise and eat a bit of breakfast in order to make the 7:55 train-didn't pan out. I slept in due to a bad night's sleep (still sleeping on a twin mattress on the floor) so no exercise. I did eat and had a cup of coffee made by my loving husband. However I had to run the whole way to the station. There is another train 5 minutes later, but it is a slow one. I managed to get there, buy my tickets, run up and over the tracks just as the train pulled in. No sooner did the train leave then the rain started coming down in buckets. Hope the nanny feels comfortable enough to drive the kids to school
Once in London I ran to Boots for some tissues (nagging cold), chap stick and over to M & S for lunch and water. I take the fast train to ensure a good hour to get to class. Just as I walk over to the tube station alarms start up and the doors close. There is a huge crowd standing around waiting to enter while swarms are exiting. I am hoping it is just crowd control and not some disaster because the bus takes almost 1.5 hours and I can't remember which ones to take anyway. I send Jason a quick text to find out what is going on-signal failure at Kings Cross has just caused the closure of the Circle Line (the one I need). Fantastic.
After about 10 minutes the doors open back up and they let the cattle in. A made dash to my platform where the notice board says a train will arrive in 10 minutes. An announcement reveals it will only go one stop. Ok-I can catch the District Line from there and still get to my stop. After 10 minutes the board changes to 'delayed' with not sign of any trains. I quickly run out and over to the Central Line, standing room only. My only option is to take this train a few stops, get out and Bank and take a fast hike to the Monument station (up and up and down the stairs because the escalators are not working). It is a good 10-15 minute walk. From Monument I catch a District Line train and get to my stop with 15 minutes to walk the 10-12 minute walk to my class. Of all the days to forget my deodorant. Ah well-I fit in with everyone else now HA!
I walked thru the door with 2 minutes to spare and out of breath.
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