Hair and decorations

Sacha wasn't too pleased when Caroline met him from school this evening, and announced that he had an appointment with the hairdresser. But once he had got used to the idea, he quite enjoyed the experience.

He managed to sit fairly still, and he now looks very smart and French.

They helped to decorate the Christmas tree when we arrived home.

Helping.

Oh do come on, boys, SMILE......

  Caroline tried to get them to pose for a Christmas card photo, but they weren't really in posing mood.

If you want to take my photo, it has to be like this.

How do you expect me to put that onto a Christmas card?

Advent

We are well into Advent. Thank you Luke and Colette for the chocolate Advent Calenders!  These are very much appreciated, and also serve to count off the number of swimming lessons, the number of early risings, the number of weekends etc to go until school finishes, thus marking the end of their time here.

The days are going past so quickly.  At school, the children are making mysterious objects. There are Nativity scenes and Christmas decorations in all the classrooms. Louis and some other little visitors to the school were taken into Angers this lunchtime, to see the Christmas market in the town centre.


Louis was invited to lunch last week with Valentin, another  classmate, and has just received his invitation to Hugo's 7th Birthday party next Wednesday. Or should I say Sir Hugo, as the birthday party will have a Chivalric theme. I don't know whether there will be any damsels present.




Today the boys initiated Selma into the mysteries of Bingo, and Snakes and Ladders, but in French. Next week we'll teach her Ludo.

More music

Sacha and Clara

On Tuesday afternoon I accompanied Sacha's class to the music centre at the Chateau du Pin. They were informed at very short notice that there was a slot available for this school, and it was quite a long slot - two hours.

 The teacher asked for two volunteers, and Sacha's hand shot up immediately. He was chosen, with Clara, who lives in the house at the back of our garden.
They played an instrument from Africa which works on the principle of a rasp.

Sacha and Wandrille, with Adrien just behind

 The Far-Eastern room was fascinating. The class saw some Javanese shadow puppets and played gongs and cymbal-like instruments.

In the North-African room, everyone watched and drummed in time to the music. The children were all very interested and well-behaved. Sacha followed everything and listened intently.

Futuroscope

Nick took the boys  to see the Futuroscope this weekend. This is a multimedia theme park in Poitiers, featuring cinema and audio-visual techniques.





There were several 3D and 4D cinemas, and various other attractions.

 Louis was congratulated upon his magnificent French by the lady in one of the restaurants.

It was a good weekend to visit, as there were not too many other visitors, and there were no queues. Sacha especially  liked the film about a man making his way across the Antarctic with no food. Louis enjoyed the journey to the moon featuring three men, and three flies.