I am desperately behind in my posts. I'll put up a few right now and try to backdate.. Not even thinking about photos at this point. We are extremely busy as we are going through our final months here and are trying to also continue our coverage of architectural and cultural wonders.
Dan's aunt Inga and grandma Alicia are visiting. Today Inga went to London to explore V&A museum and Harrods. In the evening the three of us went to Rose Theater to see a Midsummer Night's Dream. It was an interesting production, kind of punk men-only style. Once again it was hard to believe that we are actually in the UK and watching a Shakespeare play. I really liked staging and acting but had to harken back to my high school days to understand at best a quarter. To get through the extensive text the actors were going at a mad pace. So we've lasted through only one act.
The pattern emerges that plays are done spectacularly well. Most of them are a treat. We really loves the play kids and I saw last week: Tom's Midnight Garden. Beautiful angle on the much covered subject of ignored and mistreated children. What was really cool was that most actors played one or more musical instruments. I was moved to tears in the end when the story comes together thanks to the amazing acting by Helen Ryan. Dan & I saw her coming from the train station the next day and came over to say hi.
Speaking of repressed children ;) on Friday it was Georgia's 8th birthday. Just re-read this - haha - she is definitely not a repressed child, but read on to find out more. We brought Sakotis case from Lithuanian food store Papa Karlo to her school and then invited about half of her class to the Sweet Revenge cupcake decoration class. So a few things struck me about that celebration. Every single person we invited showed up. This is kind of amazing with all the different extracurricular activities kids have going on these days. I wonder if parents had to make any special accommodations to make it possible.
Georgia has autistic kid in her class. He came too with his nanny. It was very nice to see how kind and attentive the kids are to him. So OK, back to me story... What struck me was how wild and loud kids were. It is as if someone told them to shut up all day long, and then fed them some sugar and said OK, OK, you can speak now. And speak they did. To the point that instructor, a young girl obsessing about her weight.. I guess providing cupcake decoration instructions could bring that thought to your mind... screamed really loudly at them to shut up. I was upset about that - completely inappropriate & unprofessional on so many levels. Fortunately the kids did not appear to have noticed. Anyway, Dan and I, and Isaac's nanny Marta, and Rosie had a few entertaining and loud hours with 16 kids (Isabella bailed right after pizza).
Despite how it sounds, it was actually fun. Most parents came back about 15 minutes prior to the pick up time. They stood pressing their faces against the glass like some Dickensonian orphans, watching the madness within, and not braving coming in. Against the common sense we decided to plan a major playdate soon.
OK, onto the weekend of March 8-9th.
Dan's aunt Inga and grandma Alicia are visiting. Today Inga went to London to explore V&A museum and Harrods. In the evening the three of us went to Rose Theater to see a Midsummer Night's Dream. It was an interesting production, kind of punk men-only style. Once again it was hard to believe that we are actually in the UK and watching a Shakespeare play. I really liked staging and acting but had to harken back to my high school days to understand at best a quarter. To get through the extensive text the actors were going at a mad pace. So we've lasted through only one act.The pattern emerges that plays are done spectacularly well. Most of them are a treat. We really loves the play kids and I saw last week: Tom's Midnight Garden. Beautiful angle on the much covered subject of ignored and mistreated children. What was really cool was that most actors played one or more musical instruments. I was moved to tears in the end when the story comes together thanks to the amazing acting by Helen Ryan. Dan & I saw her coming from the train station the next day and came over to say hi.
Speaking of repressed children ;) on Friday it was Georgia's 8th birthday. Just re-read this - haha - she is definitely not a repressed child, but read on to find out more. We brought Sakotis case from Lithuanian food store Papa Karlo to her school and then invited about half of her class to the Sweet Revenge cupcake decoration class. So a few things struck me about that celebration. Every single person we invited showed up. This is kind of amazing with all the different extracurricular activities kids have going on these days. I wonder if parents had to make any special accommodations to make it possible.Georgia has autistic kid in her class. He came too with his nanny. It was very nice to see how kind and attentive the kids are to him. So OK, back to me story... What struck me was how wild and loud kids were. It is as if someone told them to shut up all day long, and then fed them some sugar and said OK, OK, you can speak now. And speak they did. To the point that instructor, a young girl obsessing about her weight.. I guess providing cupcake decoration instructions could bring that thought to your mind... screamed really loudly at them to shut up. I was upset about that - completely inappropriate & unprofessional on so many levels. Fortunately the kids did not appear to have noticed. Anyway, Dan and I, and Isaac's nanny Marta, and Rosie had a few entertaining and loud hours with 16 kids (Isabella bailed right after pizza).
Despite how it sounds, it was actually fun. Most parents came back about 15 minutes prior to the pick up time. They stood pressing their faces against the glass like some Dickensonian orphans, watching the madness within, and not braving coming in. Against the common sense we decided to plan a major playdate soon. OK, onto the weekend of March 8-9th.
lovely post! feel like i was there.
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