Practice and practice!

I know I'm talking about Sports Day practice a lot but it has been eight days straight now (apart from a brief rain interruption on Tuesday). It's one of the most important events on the school calendar.

I guess it's not really a practice of sports, as such - it's the practice of the routines for the day.

Getting the line-up exact

One of the team events is Jump Rope. Each class competes against the other classes in the same grade - first the girls, then the boys, then the whole class. The girls do exceptionally well - surprise, surprise - but the classes of 40 usually don't make one rotation! I think the school record is 88 rotations. So far, the highest has been about 30.

A class of first graders (year 7s) jumping well

But onto other things...

Monday night was a fellow Aussie's birthday - so we all celebrated with a dinner made by his fabulous wife - couscous, chicken risotto and African-spiced casserole - and a good ol' Aussie lamington cake (you might just see it in the background).

Good food, good times!

Well, tomorrow's another practice day, so trackies again to work!

Until then,
Monica