Two Weeks of School

Two weeks of school, and I still miss Seve. I walk to school. It takes about 16 minutes. On Monday, we went to the beach on a class field trip to learn ocean safety! It was a mini junior lifeguards for about two hours. It was fun! We ran around on the sand. My feet sunk in the sand quickly which made it very hard to run, and it was very tiring. I was partnered with a kid, I still don’t know his name, but he is really nice. We practiced using a yellow rescue buoy, and the lifeguard showed us how to use it. My partner swam out into the ocean (but really it was a small cove with little to no waves) and with the rescue buoy I swam after him in the ocean. I strapped it around my partner’s body and pulled him in. He did the same for me. It was really funny because a lot of kids fell in the water because the waves would crash at the shore and with each step it would make them fall. My teacher was sitting on the beach having a coffee with some of the parents that decided to come along. There was one lifeguard helping us out. A lot of the kids already knew him so I guess they have done this before. On Thursday, we did bike safety. There was a little obstacle course. The first obstacle was a wooden plank that you ride across. It was an imitation of going on a sidewalk. After that we rode through curvy cones like you do at soccer practice. Then we went around a cone and there were cones super close together, you had to keep balance and your bike straight without knocking any cones. Then you grab a ball from a cone, drop it at the other cone while riding a bike. There were more swively lines, you go around a tree, and one more cone. Then you have to make the infinity route and then you ride forward and there is a doorway that you have to duck and stop at the perfect time and knock only one of two sticks. I brought my own helmet because Stacey said that the one’s at school may have lice. A police officer set up the obstacle course and watched us while we were biking.

School is decently easy. Everything seems like fourth grade work. I thought it would be a lot harder since I am in fifth grade. It is hard, as everyone knows, because I don’t speak French. We haven’t had English class because it is not something big at my school. The past few weeks have been fun, but I still miss Seve!