Happy Mother's Day Mum!!!

I MISS YOU SOOOO MUCH!! I miss your hugs, and laughing together. I miss discussing life, books, family etc. with you. I miss being able to call you always for advice (I hate time zones). I love you so much, and I miss being with you.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Horse Riding

Today I went horse riding with some of children from class for the first time. Clarification, it was my first time going, not theirs.

Every Thursday a group of children from class goes to the Activities School down the road for about a half hour session of horse riding. I have always been left behind to clean in the classroom with other children so I hadn't been before today. I was happy enough to stay behind and clean but I really enjoyed going today. It was great!

First of all I went along with one of our boys who hasn't been horse riding in a while and he was so glad to be going again it was really sweet. He was giddy with excitement, all smiles and playing shy with the ladies there working. It was real cute. They didn't ask me to walk with him alongside the horse like they do with some of the others, so I just watched from the side. It was wonderful to see how much he was enjoying it, especially when they were trotting around the ring! I think he even looked proud when he saw himself in the mirror sitting up on that horse. I really enjoyed watching him.

Then while I was standing there one of these old ladies working there invited me over to where she and a few others were chatting and having tea and coffee. So I joined them for a cup of coffee and chatted away the next several minutes with them. How fun! As I left one of them said to me "Give me a shout if you see around down in the village!" I'm such an old lady, I fit right in!

Chick, chick, chickadee...

So in class we now have an incubator which has been keeping more than a dozen chicken eggs nice and toasty warm. Most of the eggs have been "claimed" and we have been eagerly watching them all week to see when "our's" will hatch. On Wednesday a few chicks began to make the first little cracks in their eggs. Halfway through the morning my little chickie was really working away at that egg shell and it didn't take her long to free herself from it. By our second lesson she was free!




Wednesday night we had a few more hatch and by Friday we had five healthy chicks chirping away during our lessons (helpful considering most of the children already have problems with concentration). They are quite cute.....for now. I have to admit that I wasn't at all excited when I heard that we were going to be raising chickens this term but having an egg of my own and watching it hatch was kind of exciting. And as chicks they really are soooo cute. As soon as they pass the chick phase though I'm sure I'll return to my previous opinion of chickens.

In the style of keeping things simple I named her KD.