Shocking, Shopping, Sleeping

Today was an early day for me. We ate and tried to leave on time but that backfired a bit. The time shedule has been adjusted so that everybody wakes up in time and eats in time. But as a result of our little mistake we were a few minutes late in Groby Community College.

I had to start my morning with registration, which is basically taking up the attendance and having a chat with the tutor group. It was really nice. My tutor that I have to follow (Chriss Hannaford) is a real nice dude. He has some sort of thinking challenge, which is some iron bars formed in such a way that you need to puzzle them out, and if you complete the challenge you get accepted in the group. I did succeed in a minumum of time concidering my sleepy head.

Next was another day of observing. After a fairly nice English lesson we (Evi and I) had to observe Dance which was really impressive. One dancer, ballet trainnee, Phiona was absolutely the most flexible person I have ever seen.

A while later I witnessed the world most shocking History lesson and a very surprising Science lesson. After those lessons we could go home but we had to 'search and rescue' Lindsay and Ann from Miss Evans who is really communicative (she's nice but we were just a tad impatient I guess).

We went home first and then straight to a mall (what did you expect!). I was so happy we found a starbucks!

I bought some small stuffs, a present for a dear friend of mine and saw the most gorgeos coat of my life. I tried it and it fit me like a charm. The bad thing was the coat is 70 pounds. I do get a 20% discount till Friday thanks to a coupon but I am in terrible doubt whether to buy it or not. I put in on lay-away just in case. You can post a little comment about it, advice would help.

On our way home we got stuck by some idiot who somehow created an accident. Luckely we were far away from it and had nothing to do with it. The challenge was turning the car on the left side of the road when it is your second time you are driving the car.

Finally we got home, ate a bit, I took a bath and off course using the built in jacuzzi feature and afterwards we chilled a bit. I will try and mail everyone tomorrow but today I am just going to sleep. We are all really tired.

Love you all

Timmy

Serene chaos comme Vermeulen

After having slept only 4 hours and me oversleeping and missing the shower stop (my own damn fault) we left for Groby. One small detail. I packed 2 pants. 1 was too small for me, the other one's zipper broke off. I have no pants left anymore now!

The GPS refused to kick in action, afterwards sending us on a tour around Desford then it sent us to Groby. The result was that we were half an hour late. The introduction was quite OK. I had to observe with Evi. We were a bit shocked because this is not the typical English school. The pupils call the teachers here with their front name, they do not have to wear uniforms, the school layout is not practical, teacher-pupil relations are really fluent, ... I like the school though. I could imagine moving here (hopefully in this house because it is really beautiful) and teach.

Afterwards we used the foul GPS to go to Sainbury to tank and shop. I needed new pants. I bought 2 new pants for 19 pounds. They even included matching belts. Afterwards Evi cooked a very nice dinner which I cleaned up and we had some akward conversation about girls and gay stuff (what else did you expect).

We are now going to rest a bit, watch a movie, type out the observations will be for tomorrow. Maybe we will wake up with the Tai-chi-do-it-yourself-video. I found some liftingweights so I might work on my figure, who knows.

One thing I was surprised about when reading the forum of the French organised play is that at the Belle-France (2 pokemon Tournaments) Matthieu Sirel won and not one of our Belgian players. But hey anything is possible.

Signing off now.

Love all.