Back to School

Ms Laura at the school
I haven't forgotten about blogging but have had a busy social life recently so it's been a while since I wrote. The house is coming along, all be it slowly. We now have wiring and switches, cabinets but no plumbing fixtures yet. Part of the lawn is sodded and our hydro meter has been installed. We visited today and found that the electrical box for the bathroom vanity light in the guest bathroon has been installed over the toilet. Sending an email to our contact to request remedial action.

Well it's September and time for back to school. I have met the principal and teachers of The 5 Star Academy, an English primary school in Santa Clara, where we used to live. The teachers are renting a condo in the building next to us and are both friendly and fun. I'm volunteering at the school one afternoon a week, doing art with the kids. I have been a couple of times to the school and the children are great. We have a lot of fun with the projects. The classes are very small as this is a new, private school.

The three teachers at The 5 Star Academy, MC, Laura and Nekia, love to play cards and games so I arranged for a friend to come to our condo to teach us Canasta. Another neighbour, Marc, from New York, also came to learn. We have played several times since and really like it. I'm hoping I can involve Bob too as he is such a good card player.

I also bought Mexican Train dominos and we are going to try this tomorrow night! I hope I can remember how to play (we played it with Jonathan, Joanne and her parents in Canada and had a lot of fun with it.) Our landlord, Mitch, just got in from Chicago, and is joining us for dominos!

Getting this leisure thing down pat......