In the groove

Another great day at school – overwhelming at times but everyone seems to enjoy themselves immensely. Pretty unusual for most educational systems, I think.

The Vandenberg family will get a kick out of this: in class we often play word games to help us remember words, concepts, etc., and today we played a game where there was a list of categories and then we were given a letter and had to find words beginning with that letter for each of the categories. That’s right it’s the age-old Bernice game which as some of you may recall Steve does not usually play but which he had no choice but participate in this time! Anyway it was a bit different in that we were broken up into teams and instead of a set time to think about the answers, we began whenever one team was ready. We all had a lot of fun and there was plenty of laughter all around – in fact much of our day is usually spent in laughing and just having a good time.

After class we stopped at Conad supermarket in the city center for a few groceries, and then went to a little wine shop nearby where we had been once before and bought a few bottles including a vin santo dessert wine. Afterwards we walked to the central bus office where picked up a few more bus tickets to get us through the rest of February. Come March 1 we hope to start using our monthly bus passes – assuming they arrive on time.

And speaking of arrivals. the first of our two boxes arrived while we were at school and a call to FedEx informed us that the second will arrive tomorrow (each apparently cleared customs on a different day). The good news is that I have all my blank DV tape, my blank DVDs and my sound equipment. The one thing I don’t have for this weekend’s tape sessions are my tripods, which are in the other box.