Feb 13
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Max
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……
Feb 12
Here I am in Auckland on a course so I thought I would test this from my BlackBerry 🙂
Feb 09
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Site News
In case you don’t like the theme I choose I now have have a theme chooser over to the side 🙂 Have fun!
Feb 09
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Photography
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……
Feb 07
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Max
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
Jan 31
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings
I’m in Auckland at the moment and had the excitement of a fire alarm at the hotel at 05:55 this morning! Walking down 26 floors in hot, muggy weather is not my favourite way to get my day started 🙁
Jan 28
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings, WWW
A six months pregnant Bay of Plenty woman has been charged with drink driving for allegedly being five times the legal limit.
Police say the 19-year-old Te Puke woman had a breath alcohol level of 750 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath. The limit for anyone under the age of 20 is 150 micrograms.
The woman told officers she was driving her three companions home because she was the least drunk of the group.
She will appear in court next month.
Source: Stuff
The mind boggles at the thoughtlessness and stupidity of some young people!
