Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Leaver's assembly



Joe is moving up to the Junior School and his entire class performed at assembly. The theme was a pirate adventure and looking for a new home. They told about highlights from class, places that they had visited and things that they were looking forward to at the new school. Hot lunches!

End of term



Anastasia moved up to the big class in Promiseland at church. She was chosen from her group to be a solider of God. Here she is modelling her outfit.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Natural History Museum






I accompanied Ana's class to the natural history museum. We had a total of 63 children aged 4 or 5, along with 18 adults. We saw the dinosaur exhibit, creepy crawlies, butterfly house and the puppet show. The kids had a blast and were wiped out after their day out. It was good fun.

Friday, July 2, 2010

More of the court action










Here are some more pictures of the various players, ball officials, press, queen's box and had a blast.

Wimbledon











We had incredible weather and Jamil about melted in the heat. I applied plenty of sunscreen and surprise, surprise, I did not burn. Here is an array of photos depicting our journey from the tube around to the various courts with different players. Again, WOW!

Women's semi finals







I was so excited to land tickets to Wimbledon. http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/index.html
After some disappointment, I was finally going!! I felt like a kid at Christmas. The entire atmosphere was incredible.
I met up with Jamil, a uni friend, at Southfields station where the adventure began. Along our walk, we scored free samples- strawberries from Asda, donuts from Krispy Kreme, those being the most tasty. It was cool. We saw the park where they camped out for tickets- poor people, and then we arrived!
We were escorted to the ticket office, given our tickets to the THIRD row of the Centre court! Wow! There were loads of people viewing practice games, children's games, warm up games, watching the big screen on the park lawn, buying souvenirs, awaiting the outcome of a match, and me-- just soaking it all in.
We soaked up the atmosphere and headed to one of the outer courts to see the men's doubles.We saw:
Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles
Donald Johnson(USA) /
Jared Palmer(USA)
def. Goran Ivanisevic(CRO) /
Cedric Pioline(FRA)
6-7(4) 7-6(3) 1-0(5)
They were having a really good time. The American's were a few minutes late and the other team was making fun of them. They were bantering back and forth and you could hear it. Low stress and fun.
After a bit, we headed to our seats, did I mention that we were center court, third row?? We had a long day and may have met our quota for the year, but it was great fun. We were able to see some big named players and even sat behind Vera's family. I know because I asked! Will have to brush up on my East bloc languages, but they were cheering for Vera.
Ladies' Singles - Semifinals
Vera Zvonareva(RUS)[21]def. Tsvetana Pironkova(BUL)
3-6 6-3 6-2
Complete
Ladies' Singles - Semifinals
Serena Williams(USA)[1]def. Petra Kvitova(CZE)
7-6(5) 6-2
Complete
Gentlemen's Doubles - Semifinals
Robert Lindstedt(SWE)[16] /
Horia Tecau(ROU)[16]
def. Juan Ignacio Chela(ARG) /
Eduardo Schwank(ARG)
6-4 7-5 6-2
Complete
Not Before:17:00
Ladies' Invitation Doubles
Martina Hingis(SUI) /
Anna Kournikova(RUS)
def. Helena Sukova(CZE) /
Andrea Temesvari(HUN)
6-1 6-4

It was funny, after the second ladies match- Serena and Petra, all the photographers, headed out. However, atthe end, when Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova played doubles, they all mysteriously returned. Hmm.