We went in to our chosen school in the morning to hand in her enrolment forms and they asked if she wanted to stay for an hour. When we went back to collect her she begged to be allowed to stay for longer and ended up spending the rest of the day there!
She came home full of tales about why stars twinkle (something to do with gas and wind), why the sky is blue (with a full explanation of how sun light refracts through water), and all sorts of other things which I’m sure I didn’t learn until I was in secondary school, certainly not at the age of five?! Anyway, she had a great time and is really looking forward to starting properly on Monday.
In the meantime, three and a half years in small, remote communities has left us a little bit unused to city life, and we’ve all been feeling a little bit overwhelmed this week by the huge amount of traffic, roads, people, buildings, shops, etc. So we drove around the coast today to Eastbourne/Days Bay to get some peace & quiet and spent a while relaxing in the sun on the beach. It’s amazing that this area is still part of NZ’s capital city yet we felt as if we were miles from anywhere. Alfie and I had stone throwing competitions while Molly collected yet MORE shells, and Jake just fell asleep.
Next job for us is co-ordinating the shipping of all our stuff from both Central Australia and Auckland in time for our moving in date. Anyone who visited us during our time in Alice Springs will probably understand how excited we are about having a proper home with real stuff in it again!
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