Ecole a la maison

16:54:25 o'clock BST
Feeling Happy

Last tuesday which was the 6th of may i think at around 11pm, i was with my son and daughter in my bedroom because we decided to have a look at the stars and my room is were we have the best view with very big windows and it's over the green space and the river.

Like i said at around 11pm, we saw like a shaped cigar around 30-35 cm long glowing and gliding over the river, we saw it may be for 2 seconds, lucky we turned our head this way!

Then about 30 minutes later, i see over a tree, a ball of blue light, darker blue around and light blue in the centre and shining. Around 30-40cm diameter, not sure about the size. It was over the river and on top of a tree right in front of me, i was so amazed that i couldnt even call my son to see, it stayed there for about 2 seconds and flew away opposite us at a normal speed and at the same time getting smaller and loosing the blue colour.

I have never seen something like that in my life, it was beautiful!

But then may be a minute later, my son see the same cigar shape light going the other direction, but i didnt see it because i was still stunned by my blue ball!

It just came out of nowhere, not from up or down, or side to side. It couldnt have been a fireworks, there was no noise and it was on top of the river, and i would have seen it coming up. Someone suggested a fire balloon, whatever that is, but where did it come from and from the speed it was going, impossible it was a fire balloon.

I'll never forget this ball :))

A few days later, we decide to do it again, so we put chairs in front of the window and wait for something new. We werent expecting another blue ball ( we'd be lucky) but we kept looking at the stars with our binoculars.

And nobody will believe us, but we saw a light going in a straight line, but not like a plane and then the light was going up like the speed of a plane and disappeared in the dark sky. No way it was a plane, there was no noise ( we are used to it) and it was going up and up. ( a plane stay on the same path more or less).

I tried to find an answer to my sighting but with no luck. Tried to go on many sites about ufos but nothing about balls of blue light, may be i am not looking in the right direction.

Anyway, apart from the feeling of having been abducted by aliens many years ago, i have never experienced this sort of things. I have never even been interested in this sort of things.

 

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10:40:45 o'clock BST
Feeling Happy

Today has been a historic moment for me.

My dear husband who is still away on business has been very generous with words this morning.

For him i am a clever woman with a high IQ, a helpful and loving mum and wife.

Caring, generous and courageous!

I think may be it's because he is far away and miss me and the children, but i felt so good afterwards, he never told me that before.

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09:04:37 o'clock BST
Feeling Hopeful

Last week-end we made a floral crown for sarah.

I found the idea on the net. As we've never done it before it was not easy but we managed and i think we've done good.

I think Sarah looks pretty with it.

We want to make another one later because this one is a bit small for her head and i didnt find many flowers in the shop.

Here are the pictures.

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09:20:57 o'clock BST
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I have just noticed that it's been one year that i have started this blog.

I think it's time to celebrate and as i am going out today, i'll bring back a good bottle of wine! and why not some cake ( mainly chocolate :))

mmmmmmm, my mouth is watering!

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09:15:11 o'clock BST
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I finally told my husband about his son being homeschooled. I made him promise not to interfere or try to change my mind.

I had to explain to him why he was being homeschooled; not happy in class, bullied by teachers and some school kids etc...

He said he was ok with it, but knowing him too well, i know he is going to try to talk me out of it, but i'll stand my ground!

It's been over a month now and Jalil is very happy. There is a few fights with his sister but when it comes to learning he is great and love to work. He is the one who wanted to work on his math, english and science. Me i am more relaxed and told him he could work at his own pace but he says he will feel much better if he does some work.

I just need to enrol him in a football club because he loves to play and used to be in the school club. I try to get him out of the house but he loves to stay home ( me who like outdoors) I'll need to find more recreations for him.

For Sarah as well she needs to get out more, but sarah loves shopping! She is ok i f we go to the park and can walks for miles but she prefers to look at shop windows :))

She also loves the library and if i listen to her she would get the whole library at home!

 Here is a picture i made for a *friend* in france ( i made it into a greeting card), but it came back to me, she didnt even take the time to go to the post office and get it! but i am happy it's back and gonna put it on my wall.

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12:39:18 o'clock GMT
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After over 30 years! i found some friends from the 70's who were in class with me.

I have registered with a french site since last year but it's only now that they start to appear!

One of them send me a picture of the 60's but i am not on it as it is from 64-65 but the lady in it was my teacher in year 5 and she was very strict but fair. I remember she used to put us in the corner with a hat if we didnt listen or didnt work properly, or she used to hit us on the tip of our fingers with a ruler, really hard, ouch! i remember! But that's how it was in this time. The year i was in her class is the year i lost my mum ( 1970)

Then i got news from a boy who was in high school in the same classes as me and i used to fancy him. We used to hang around with him and three other friends. Ahhh good time!

And then a girl i was in college with, she hasnt got the net, so her brother gave me her postal address, i'm gonna send her a nice card, let's hope she remember me!

Here is a photo of my old teacher, Mme Quinet.

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12:27:58 o'clock GMT
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Jalil has started homeschool on monday but we havent done much yet. I still need to buy a few books. I bought some CGPs workbook in every subject, he wanted me to buy them because he wants to do some work.

Apart from that, i am a bit worried about GCSE's! But someone said that i have time to worry about it, he is only 13.

I thought we should get ready about now for GCSE's but i was wrong

And i dont know much about it, being french! ;-(

Although i have two big boys who've done it, but i wasnt really interested at the time, they've just got on with it and that's all.

I told Jalil that he doesnt have to do his GCSE's and he was real pleased!

His dad still doesnt know, being on a business trip, he doesnt have to know really, not yet.

Even his brothers dont know, they work most days, so they havent seen him at home, but i'll have to tell. Knowing them, they'll have the same reaction as their dad!

But no one can tell me what to do or what not to do! And if my son is unhappy at school, i'll do anything to change that.

 

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12:17:15 o'clock GMT
Feeling Happy
Hearing Enya


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07:51:11 o'clock GMT
Feeling Hopeful

My son wants to be home schooled. He is fed up with his school, his lunch money get stolen almost everyday, he cant stand the french teacher, who thinks he can speak fluently french because his mum is french! and keep getting at him. ( I had a word with her, well almost, it's difficult when someone doesnt stop talking).

He is a very popular boy and has lot of friends and he says that he will still see his friends after their school. I said ok, i dont mind doing it, if you are really unhappy and if that's what you want.

I got called at school yesterday by his tutor because his behaviour was unacceptable. I dont know what they call unacceptable, because i know my boy, he is someone very friendly, kind to others, etc..

Anyway, i pretended to agree with them but in myself i was quite boiling with anger! and thinking: wait until after the holidays, you'll never see my son again.  I didnt want to show them that he was going to be homeschooled.

Already his tutor kept staring at sarah and i know what he was thinking: why isnt she at school. So when i left and in the corridor, i told him that she was homeschooled and that may be Jalil was a bit jealous of her and wanted the same thing ( hint) :))

Got to go, husband coming down!

Will write later the rest.

Later:

I am more than willing to home educate him but i dont know where to start. Luckily i wrote on eo forum and had a few advices. So now i feel more confident.

The only thing to do now is write the letter to the school; on top ( or more at the bottom of the letter) i'll add how happy i was with them ( NOT)!!

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08:25:39 o'clock GMT
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I was saying i am back in january and then nothing more happened! I am really lazy!

I forgot to say how the meeting with the LEA went in november. Sometimes i havent got all my head.

It went very well, a very nice lady, she had a look at sarah's work and asked me a few questions about socialization and that's all. It was very quick. She even showed me the report that she was going to send.

A few days later i got the report saying that ( forgot the words) the teaching was satisfactory, something like this, i havent got the paper under my nose. And that the next visit would be in a year's time.

I was not apprehensive at all about this meeting ( they dont scare me!), she even offered me some tea, which i accepted.

Sarah was a bit shy, as always. She had a book on high school musical and the lady asked her if she could read all this words that looked difficult and sarah said yes. She asked sarah if she could have a look and she read a sentence and then ask sarah what it meant, saying this is a complicated word, what does it mean? And sarah explained to her easily.

I heard so many bad things about the LEA in this area, that they were strict and etc.... but i think there is two in my area and i depend on the best one!

Anyway, after that i felt more relaxed and even my husband doesnt ask so much of us, and for him it's like he knows now i am able to teach sarah, well he knew i was capable, but this meeting put his mind at rest.

i think i'll go to the park today, it's a nice day, sarah needs to go out a bit.

She said she wants to be a painter when she is bigger! Bless her.

She is very good at art. Even the lea lady was impressed with her paintings.

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