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We’ve got flowers!!
That’s right – our tomato plants have sprouted flowers!!!
Here’s a couple of photos:

They have also been living outside on our balcony for a while now & it seems to agree with them quite well 😉

Now that we are off to Singapore for a month – they will be boarding @ one of Tobias’ classmates home for the month – we are very grateful to have someone to care for them while we are gone but unfortunately if the flowers are in bloom now, we’ll likely not get to eat the fruits…
It’s ok – hopefully the smaller plants will still bloom later when we are back…
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So yes – the school year has officially ended – Tobias has officially completed his 1st year @ Kindi… On to the next 🙂

They ended the school year by having an over night stay @ the Kindi. So all the kids arrived with sleeping bags, mats, pillows, soft toys & breakfast food @ 7.15pm on Thursday (8th July 2010) night & slept there with 2 of their teachers.

Here’s a photo of a very very excited Tobias all ready to go:

The parents picked the kids up @ 10am the next morning… from rather tired looking teachers… as expected they didn’t get to sleep much with 17 kids in the same room & it was a super warm night…

i, on the other, had a lovely evening to myself – the man had to go for some company dinner (which in the end he didn’t go, cos he had work to finish). i caught up on some paperwork, had junk food for dinner, watched some TV & finally watched Sherlock Holmes the movie – it was a good movie! It was a relaxing night. i thought i would miss hearing him around the apartment, but i guess i soooo very very rarely get this chance – it felt good 😀
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You know sometimes i wonder why they go to Kindi here – it’s so different from Kindi in Singapore where i went to school – here it’s all about learning social skills & learning to work together & getting along – over in Singapore it’s more about knowing your ABCs & 123s…
i think it’s better here – ABCs & 123s can be learnt later & studies have shown that by the time kids are 10 years old – it made no difference whether they started reading at age 3 or age 6…

Anyhow, Tobias had quite a few more outings with his Kindi – but none of which i went along to – so no photos for those.
But just to keep a record:

On 1st June 2010 – the Pirate Band took to the town – it was a full day (almost – they started @ 8.15am & came back @ 3.15pm) where they took the bus (public transport – no chartered buses like in Singapore) went to another town, hiked there, had lunch in the great outdoors & then came back.

On 29th January 2010 – they went to watch the theater perform The Frog Prince – i would have liked to be there but alas – only Kindergarten kids & their teachers – Tobias said it was great fun & the performers interacted with the kids which i though was great!

Just the day before that, they had a colour party to end their theme on Colours – i caught the final thing they did (but no camera) – they had written down wishes – wishes for themselves as well as for their respective balloons – tied the wishes to their balloons & then at the count of 3 let them fly! It was wonderful seeing the balloons in the sky & how much the kids enjoyed it.

Then on 11th November 2009 – they had a lantern parade! They had the theme of Fish & each child made (with the guidance of the teachers) a fish lantern for themselves. It was a lovely lantern. See pictures below:

We have 3 kindergartens here on our village & all 3 kindergartens came together for the parade & i think by far, our class had the best looking lanterns & the biggest ones too.

i love it that the lantern wasn’t just a walk around the school thing – they actually walked around the village & stopped @ various points to sing songs. Here are a couple of videos of them singing (i hope they work well):

This second video was taken in the forest – they had to walk through a section of forest on their route around the village. & it had gotten much darker by then so you can’t see the kids but it shows off the lanterns really nicely.
Sorry the sound isn’t very good on this one.

Looking @ all the fun stuff they got to do – sometimes i wished that i was in Kindi too 😉
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