La rentrée - so far so good

Catrin seems pretty at ease in her new class. One girl wrote her a very sweet note at the beginning of term and now we can see all the marks she gets in every subject on the internet using our own special code. I suppose this means that we could send weekly letters to the school commenting on whether marks are falling (inefficient methods) or rising (dumbing down).

Gwilym has changed school and he also seems happy. Yesterday he had school lunch - spaghettis carbonaras followed by a chocolate doughnut. OK - it is probably not as balanced a menu as at his previous school but it cost less than £5 and he ate it. He mentioned liking his art teacher, who is 62 and on his 35th rentrée, and who said of some artist "ce mec il est mort et...".

Meanwhile at the music school the text book for their theory of music class this year costs 29.95€. They're both in the same class, so I just bought one copy ! The teacher may not like it, but he'll have to lump it. I'll buy another copy later in the year if sharing doesn't work out.

We don't yet know the day or time of Catrin's flute class and the slot Gwilym had for guitar was strongly desired by another father, but we couldn't negotiate because the time of his child's guitar class was not a decision he could take alone without consultation.

Gwilym is a bit non-plussed because he has school on Wednesday afternoon, the traditional time for sport. However he'd gone off his football club anyway - the under 15's are not as nice a gang as the under 13's were.

Other than that all OK !

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