July 2008

The first week of the holidays we are gobsmacked to receive a phone call from the big international school 10km away from us, offering us a place for J, against all the odds. However, we feel that our decision has been made and the boys are all geared up to go local, so, feeling slightly sick about the situation, we turn it down. The logistics of it would have been difficult anyway.

We also receive a very friendly letter from J’s new teacher for next year, with his weekly timetable, and her private contact details. Unfortunately it appears to be written in code, as the lesson blocks are just allocated a letter of the alphabet with no explanation, so we ask for the teacher neighbour’s help to decipher it, and it makes more sense. He will have 9 sessions of school per week: 5 mornings and 4 afternoons (no school Wednesday afternoons).