Dear Richard
Wow, September already… this year really is going fast, but
then you know that ;) And I survived a crazy week last week! I final finished
all of the public sector material that has been hanging over me for the whole
year, and I’m pretty happy with what I’ve put together. I also finished all of
the first year marking that keep me very busy! What complicated the week a bit
more was that I got a tummy bug, so I took a bit of time off on Tuesday
afternoon. It’s the second time in a month that I’ve been sick enough that I
actually took time off work. That’s just not something I do! But as one of my
colleagues pointed out, I am pretty stressed at the moment, so I guess it’s not
that surprising… But it was thankfully just a 24 hour bug, and no one else in
the family really got it!
On Thursday I did that CPD course for the engineering
faculty that I was working on previously. It was a marathon session! I was
teaching from 10:30 in the morning until 17:30, with only a lunch break where I
ran off to another meeting and then a tea break where I did some marking… But
the feedback was positive! I had had only a short brief on what to include, but
the guy running it said that I gave exactly what was needed, and the
participants enjoyed it :) One of them came to me during the one break and said
that either he missed the point when he was doing accounting at school, or the
teacher didn’t know it, but he hadn’t got the big picture of how a business
actually works and how the accounting, and more specifically the reporting, fit
into it. And that’s the kind of thing that I was hoping to achieve, so it felt
good :) They are planning on repeating the course a few times each year going
forward, including in Joburg, so I’ll get to be involved again, and then it
will just be presenting, and refreshing my memory, rather than all of the work
I put in this time to prepare :)
On Friday it was grandparents day at the school, and the 4
cousins had all 6 of their grandparents there! The Powries et al invaded! But
it was so bizarre, because Dane’s mom (Dane being Josh’s best friend, and we
got his parents to have one missionary discussion last year) phoned me just
after it started saying that she saw her aunt there when she was dropping off
her parents… She had known that her cousin had moved to Bothasig a while ago,
but hasn’t seen him in years, so didn’t know any details, but it turns out that
Rohan is her cousin! Wow! It really is crazy how small the world is ;) So Josh
and Dane are kind of cousins now, because Amy and Dane and cousins ;) And the
Lord is putting lots of members of the Church in the way of this family! But we’ll
just keep up the friendship, and see when they’re ready to take it further
again…
As our 10th wedding anniversary present to ourselves
we recently bought a gas braai, when we saw it on a really good special. It
took us 2 hours to set it all up on Friday night! And we’re still needing to
get the gas bottle and a cover, and a couple other things, but we’re excited ;)
But I will be happy if I don’t have to set up a braai like that again!
Yesterday afternoon Andrew got back really late from church,
but while Caleb had his afternoon sleep Josh and Hannah and I played Lego. They
are both getting so good at building stuff! Josh is very creative, and he’s
good at following the instructions, but he loves just creating things. But I
think Hannah is more like me, where she likes to follow the instructions and
has the sense of accomplishment from doing it right. She’s come a long way
since the last time I did it with her though. And she’s so proud of herself for
being able to build the stuff!
So a crazy busy week, and this week ahead is also going to
be pretty crazy, but then there should be a brief lull, I hope!
Love you lots :)
Shelly
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