Birthday Week

Lots of people at work had their birthdays this week. Something to do with Singles Awareness Day nine months before? For my birthday Naomi made a nice lamb dinner with a Tarte Normande for dessert. Yesterday we had some friends over for Swiss Fondue.

At school I initiated a couple meetings about the low grades. Basically, students understand how it works after the explanation but can't translate that understanding into doing on the test. For the most part, if they did their homework well, things would be fine. There is also a big problem with retention - Math builds and they don't seem to be able to remember how to do much of anything after the test. Perhaps it has a lot to do with the fact that they have 14 different subjects every week. Bottom line is that I don't know how to solve this problem and nobody else seems to either.

Abigail and Amélie are sleeping away as I write this. Naomi went to the gym. They are all doing well although Naomi had a rough week. She decided to quit her job at WolfertPRO. A difficult choice for her, but everyone (except for a few of her colleagues there) seems to be quite happy with it. She will still work at the other school and might even get offered more responsibility. Much better to have it there than at PRO!

Happy in the box.

Birthday Pie.