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One more hotel room
All I want is to be home
Boys, wife, homelife yes

No I don’t have one but I like the way that some bloke from a law firm in Australia talks about the exclusive deals that Apple makes iPhone users and providers sign.

“It would be like Ford deciding that from now on all of the cars they produce can only use be used with petrol from Shell.”

“If you fill your car up with fuel from BP the ignition system will detect that and shut down the car.”

Source: NZ Herald

I went through my diary today and worked out that I have been away for 78 nights in the last year (doesn’t include day trips)….. I think that’s quite a lot.

So here I am stuck in Auckland on a training course for the week missing Max’s first full week at school 🙁

Luckily I get to speak to the whole family on a regular basis so I’ve managed to keep in touch with him to a degree. He’s started to bring homework home and at the moment it’s a set of early learning books called “readers” which only have 3-4 words per page. I always call in the morning and Vic says that when he hears the phone he races downstairs to get his latest book and then we put him on speaker phone so he can read to me – it’s very cool 🙂

I was also away for his second day at school last friday and when I asked Vic to email me with how it went this is what she sent:

As we were walking up the school drive Max said “mummy I can do this myself” but I told him I have to walk him to his classroom.
He hung up his bag, put his Phoenix cap in, took out his journal bag, rushed into his classroom, put the journal bag into the box, grabbed his school hat out of his tote tray and said “I’m going to play now”. I hung around in the playground till the bell went but he ran straight past me and into his classroom. Looked in through the window – he put his hat away and sat down on the mat. Guess he’s got it sorted!

On his second day!

Oh well – back to my course I guess……

Here I am in Auckland on a course so I thought I would test this from my BlackBerry 🙂

In case you don’t like the theme I choose I now have have a theme chooser over to the side 🙂 Have fun!

My friend Rico and I crept through the fence of an old run down theme park at 07:00 this morning to take some photos just as the sun was coming up.  Both of us agreed that there really wasn’t anything worth getting excited about……

Max’s first day at school today!

It all went surprisingly well too with Max showing no signs of trepidation this morning and showing nothing but positive signs this afternoon.

We turned up a little bit early so that he could just sit and watch what was going on in the playground – he had voiced some concerns over “what the big kids might do” when we put him to bed last night. A couple of his mates from kindy are in the same class so within about five minutes they were all tearing around the playground without a care in the world. We had dropped his books off in his classroom earlier and as soon as the bell went he went flying past us, into his classroom and sat of the floor facing the teacher without a word to us! The only reason that we got a goodbye is because I stood in the doorway and yelled out to him! 🙂

After school (which finishes at 2pm for the new entrants in their first week) he was a typical kid (already)

What did you do today at school

Stuff

What kind of stuff

I don’t remember…

Typical! 🙂

All in all it went really well and here’s hoping it lasts.

Max and his mate Freddy outside school

Max hanging up his bag