Lucie has a Scottish girl in her class-from Aberdeen, and Sophie has made lots of friends already. The teachers and pupils were incredibly helpful and welcoming which made a big difference. Lucie's 'homeroom' teacher gave her a big hug, and Sophie's class are very welcoming - Jack Wills is the coolest thing ever in Calgary, so Sophies giant navy schoolbag is getting lots of admiring looks, (.....as is Lucie's bag from Primark!!)
Lunch was a big excitment- the girls have a swipecard for the cafeteria, Lucie was very impressed by the popcorn on offer at breaktime, Sophie's English class had hot chocolate during the lesson....Sophie had both volleyball and basketball yesterday, neither of which she had played before but she really enjoyed it....Lucie was chuckling as she had a lesson called GH which she later found out is Geography and History combined :-)
The uniform changes on day two, to a more 'relaxed ' uniform (formal school uniform only on mondays and first day of term):
Bruce went off to work at 6.30 am - I drove him to Sunterra (a lovely food shop), which has an Express bus into Calgary. He made it into work door to door in half an Hour which is great considering we are right on the edge of the city.
Ive spent the morning rushing round buying padlocks, backpacks etc for the girls, and a kettle for a decent cup of tea...I met our lovely neighbour who has a dog almost identical to jasper-he told me about all the local dog walking places which Jasper seems to love already. Ive joined the local gym which is the biggest gym I have ever seen, it has what looks like an 800 metre indoor track above the three swimming pools and three ice rinks....I did an aqua class and managed quite well...good place to start, will build up to everything else as my leg gets better. xx
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