Of fires, Africa Day et le Français

Today being Africa Day, it was ostensibly a public holiday. However, I first had my Monday intro to the week's work with my class on Zoom and then I had my first French lesson with two Chinese five year olds who ordinarily would go to the French School here, but due to Corona are back in China. I managed to work out how to tell who is posting on my shared screen in Zoom and gave that student a bit of a fright by saying, so and so please stop posting on the screen. They couldn't resist straightening my diagrams a little later on but I had to ask if they were paying attention to what I was actually saying about perimeter and not just obsessing over my wiggly shapes. The French lesson went fairly well. I had two hard working five year olds and they did sweet drawings of themselves and their families and I tried to get the vocab across. The little girl claimed she had seven sisters and nine brothers so couldn't fit them all in. Obviously China's one child policy no longer holds or she may be getting her numbers a bit wrong.

There was a massive fire on Monavale Vlei as we were leaving to go to school to prep for tomorrow's book hand out. The fire brigade came and they managed to put it out eventually but it took a couple of hours. Wasn't near our house, but close to houses where I have house sat in the past. Depending on lock down I may have a house sit in June.

Photo credit: Jill Roberts from Monavale

Photo credit: Jill Roberts from Monavale

Photo credit: Jill Roberts from Monavale

Photo credit: Jill Roberts from Monavale

Photo credit: Jill Roberts from Monavale

Photo credit: Gretta Mackenzie

Photo credit: Gretta Mackenzie

Had a bit of time out this weekend. My sister organised an online games afternoon with our cousins Jaimie and Carly, in Cape Town and London respectively. We played Drawful 2 and then Quiplash which were fun. Jaimie has an alternative that you can play without Zoom as Zoom did keep timing out, but hey, technology is amazing.