UK Tour 09

Started the day off with an assembly which our kids did brilliantly!! Some of the boys did a gumboot dance and the hockey girls did their famous war cry at the end of the assembly. Spent the rest of the day in Bath. The Roman Baths were very interesting and Bath itself is beautiful! The hockey girls are playing in a match this evening at a club called “Lydney” which is just outside Chepstow. We are all looking forward to Thorpe Park tomorrow!! The spirits are still high over here and a lot of us are not too excited about leaving this beautiful place, however there are those who are getting really excited to go home:) See you all at the airport on Thursday evening…x ciao

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Spent the day in Cardiff yesterday.  Went to Millenium stadium, was amazing!! The shopping in Cardiff was great too.  Today we are spending the day in school until 12 and then we will join the St Johns children at the Chapel for a church service.  To view photos please click on the Media link:)

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Please check out some of the photos I have uploaded.  I will try upload more as soon as I figure out how to increase the memory size on this blog, for now it will only allow me to upload a few.

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Its been a while since I last updated so I have a lot of news for you all.  It was the childrens first weekend with their hosts and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.  Some made blackberry jam with their host families while others went cycling… On Saturday St Johns had a derby day against another school “clifton” some of our boys got to play rugby for St Johns but the coach kept taking them off the field as they were scoring too many tries and here in Wales its all about team spirit and the schools do not like to beat other schools by too many points which we are battling to understand?!? anyway…Bea got to play in a hockey match for St Johns too!  On Sunday the hockey girls travelled up to  Cardiff to play against a young club team as well as St Johns.  We beat the club team 3-0 and drew 0-0 against St Johns.  The girls are much stronger than a lot of these teams, so we definately doing something right back home:)

Today we went to Chepstow Castle and walked around inside, which was very interesting, loads of photos were taken and of course…souveneirs were bought!!  We then walked along Severn Bridge, which I am sure was a good 8km walk!! Very pretty here in Wales and very clean too!!  Tomorrow will be our first official school day, so it should be a lot of fun to follow the St Johns students around.  The hockey girls will be travelling to a school called Badminton for another fixture so wont be at school with us.  Until next time…..ciao x

Hello Mrs Gamiet, I hope you enjoy your UK trip! And I miss you very much. From Jenice.
Hello Mrs Gamiet, I hope you had a safe trip to the UK. Our class is going to win the spelby again, From Tonia.
Hi Mrs Gamiet, Hope you had a very nice trip to the UK. I have been a very good boy today. Miss you, from Shiven.

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We arrived in chepstow, Wales yesterday…17th Sept.  Its really beautiful here, green green grass and little towns.  The staff and pupils at St Johns are really friendly.  The children spent their first night with their hosts last night and everyone seemed happy.  Hockey girls won 5-o against Clifton and joined us at the ski slopes in gloustershire today.  We also visited the Gloustershire cathedral where most of Harry potter was filmed:)  Everyone is having a great time.  Some children learned a very hard lesson but a very valuable one about travel in the UK..Those who bought “weighty’ bags really really battled. South Africans load bags into cars,,,,the English have to lug their bags with them for long distances from tube station to bus station an so forth,  some of the children with heavy bags really battled!!! Anyway until next time…..ciao x

p.s… please be patient as its REALLY difficult to find internet time!!

We miss you very much! We hope you return early – don’t take the wrong train this time ). We wish you a nice time and holiday.

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By now we are all packed and ready to go(hopefully). Please make sure you have your son/daughter at the airport by 9am sharp! I will try my best to keep you all informed as to our whereabouts by updating this blog as often as possible:) Please feel free to add posts to this blog and I will pass them on to your children.

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