Stars in our eyes

Been quite busy recently and haven't managed to do many updates here. Alice and Felicity are almost at the end of first term and are doing well at school.

In the recent family concert, Alice performed two recorder duets with her Irish friend Colm and Felicity did her first violin solo. Both Alice and Felicity represented Avondale at the recent International Schools Championship. Alice won a third for High Jump and Felicity only just missed out in the High Jump in her age group, coming fourth. Today at the Final Assembly for Term 1, Alice won two Phoenix Awards for Excellence - one for PE and one for Mandarin Writing. She is so quick and neat with her Mandarin characters which is peculiar because the same cannot be said for her usual handwriting. At the same assembly, Felicity performed in a play with her Speech and Drama Group. She is loving this activity and enjoys being on stage. Okay, that’s enough bragging about our talented kiddies who obviously take after their parentsJ

In just over a week we are moving. Not looking forward to all that packing and unpacking and the inevitable trip to Ikea for bits and pieces but we are excited about the new area we are moving to. We’ll miss not seeing quite so much of all our lovely Condo friends. I had a night out with all the Ladies from Newton Gems last night which was a little farewell for me but they promised to invite me back for all the Girls’ Nights Out so I hope to stay in touch.