Here are some photos from J´s new ballet class with Ms. V. She has decided that she wants to do a double dance session on tuesdays so we´ll give it a shot and see how it goes.

 

 

 

I dont remember if I have written about the stuff that has been going on with the ballet when we came back after christmas. If I did, here is a reminder ;)

 

J has always loved her ballet and was always full of smiles when I dropped her off and picked her up but after christmas something happened. She is not big enough to put words to her feelings and explain why she hasnt wanted to go but I have a feeling why.

 

When we arrived for the first ballet lesson this term J was tired since we came back from Sweden that night but she was happy and excited to go to her ballet lesson. There is a 15 minute break between the "baby ballet" and her class and when the "babies" have finished their class the girls in J´s class that are slightly early always go in and dance (read run) in the studio until all girls are there and its time to start the class. I didnt see exactly what happened this time but J ran to the studio to do her usual stuff but came back quickly saying "Ms. C said its not time yet" meaning she was not allowed in the studio yet. J almost looked scared and she curled up in my lap and I think this is where it went wrong. She probably felt that she was being told off and couldnt understand why when she didnt think she had done anything wrong. I do think that the fact that she was tired played part in it, maybe she took the words worse because of it but I can understand that she couldnt see why something that was ok for a whole term suddenly wasnt. Since then it has been a struggle to get her to go to her class and it might sound terrible to make her go but we have said that if the kids have commited to or said they want to do some activity they have to stick with it for the agreed period of time (normally a term). It is not ok to say you want to do this and you want to do that and then quit after one or two times. In this case I also thought she might start enjoying it again if she felt she could trust her teacher again. This hasnt happened and we have been on countdown to see how many classes left and now its finally over. Its not just this but some small incidents during the term, Ms. C is not a very "good" teacher (at least for kids), she has very obvious favourites in the class and the kids have felt it. The hip hop teacher Ms. V, that both kids adore has a ballet class for J´s year group just before the hip hop so for next term J has 3 choices, she can stop ballet completely, she can do a double class with ballet first and hip hop then or stop the hip hop and do ballet instead.

 

This term has passed so quickly, last 4 days of school to go and we cant wait! R is doing his medical right now, a yearly checkup that the pilots have to do to make sure they are healthy enough to fly a plane. This means he has the car so I couldnt go help out in J´s class. Instead I went for a walk this morning, followed by a bath and some swedish tv on the computer. Right now Im waiting to hear from R to see what we are going to do when he is ready.

 

J has her last ballet class today and that means we can go in and see her which will be fun of course. Since R is not working the whole family will go see her, she will be very excited about that :) It will be the last class she does with this teacher, which Im really happy about but that is a whole other entry reallly.

 

On Friday we leave for London. Im sooo looking forward. The sleeping plans changed a bit though since my friend will be going away for easter and they offered us to borrow their house which of course will be much more convenient for us than sleeping on the other friend´s tvroom floor. Dont get me wrong, we are very happy to have friends in London to avoid paying for hotels but when you have the choice of staying in an empty house its pretty easy. Just in case someone had missed that detail, after London we will be heading to Malta for some 10 days. Looking forward to seeing both the "new" and "old" cousin and of course my friends back in Malta but most of all I look forward to having some time with my whole family without the musts of every day life.

 

 

So my mum has left and we are back to normal. At least for a week since we are leaving for London and then Malta on friday. Yesterday R left for Venice and the kids had their last football practice and today we rode our bikes to the bigger playground in our area.

 

 

 

One evening we went to the marina for dinner at Nando´s and a stroll. As we were waiting for our food A's teaching assistant Mrs. S came walking past and she stopped by to say hello, always so lovely and friendly. A thought it was very nice to have met her outside of school....sweetheart!

 

After a year and a half in Dubai we finally went up the Burj Khalifa. Its something Im happy to have done but it really was nothing special and I wont be going up again any time soon...

 

The kids were very happy to show my mum the slide pool. We spent a full day there and even went down to the beach and sea.

 

the kids favourite in the pool, here its J being thrown