Laowai

I feel a little like I’m trying to catch up on posting to my blog and I’m trying to catch up to our new school schedule. The girls started on Tuesday and they’ve done great – handling all the newness so well! Bea was lucky enough to have art class on her first day and she came home so excited about the art room. She described a complete workshop full of power drills and saws and sewing machines, a whole wall of paint and lots of fabric. I wish I could take art class with her. Claire and I giggled because her teacher says maths instead of math. She is obviously British.

Here are some photos from our last few day.

Around town there are signs posted along streets to remind everyone to take care as kids are starting to walk to school now.

The girls are required to wear a uniform for PE class:

We took a lovely boat ride this weekend:

Brian likes to treat us:

We ended up at the Chilbi one town over. It’s like a county fair but without the 4-H animals.

The girls and I went to the zoo at the bottom of Lake Zurich. The same zoo we went to many times when we lived here before. I kept thinking of the past and how little my girls were the last time we visited. It’s such a nice zoo – all the animals were out and about and there is a really fun playground.

Brian was gone all last week and the weather was terribly rainy for four days in a row. It felt good to eventually get out of the house. We went for a quick walk to the old ruins in our town.