{"id":6712,"date":"2015-09-17T21:34:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T20:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=6712"},"modified":"2015-09-17T21:34:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T20:34:02","slug":"one_hundred_and_seven_months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2015\/09\/17\/one_hundred_and_seven_months\/","title":{"rendered":"One hundred and seven months"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe new school year has begun in earnest. Ingrid has two new subjects this year: arts and woodworking. The latter is a split-class subject: half the class does woodworking and the other half does textile crafts, and they will swap after half term. Their first project is to make a mascot (in wood). Ingrid told me she is making a sun.<\/p>\n

Otherwise school continues as before. Same school, same room, same kids, same teacher (except for specialist subjects like sports, music, arts and woodworking). One big difference compared to last year is that Ingrid goes there on her own and comes home on her own every day, so I really don’t have much insight into what goes on at school.<\/p>\n

This year her Estonian lessons are at her own school, whereas until this spring she had to go to the neighbouring school. (There’s one kid taking Estonian in each school so they get shared lessons.) It was quite a bit for her to walk and she is not yet allowed to cycle in the street on her own, so I used to go with her. We often talked about her school day on our way. Now even that is gone.<\/p>\n

One thing I’ve noticed recently is that they are doing lots of sports. There’s sports class on Monday morning, but in addition they have been training extra on Thursday afternoons for a relay race. The race is called Liding\u00f6loppet (Skolstafetten)<\/i> so I guess it takes place in Liding\u00f6. I have no idea why kids from Sp\u00e5nga would run a race in Liding\u00f6 but whatever.<\/p>\n

This week they also had a sports day on Tuesday when the kids could try out all sorts of different sports (from table tennis to boxing), plus a charity run on Wednesday. I’ve barely seen Ingrid out of sports clothes this week.<\/p>\n

The Thursday running training means that Ingrid is too tired for riding lessons, so we haven’t been to riding school more than once during this past month.<\/p>\n

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Currently of course the big thing occupying Ingrid’s mind is her upcoming birthday. This year she and two friends of hers are planning to have a sleepover party together, with pizza and a movie at night, and then cake in the morning.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile she has her usual interests: watches Minecraft videos, plays Minecraft, reads Kalle Anka<\/i>, occasionally practices magic tricks.<\/p>\n

After much talk about how she would love to have a pet, we borrowed a hamster from her cousin for a couple of weeks. She was diligent in taking care of it, but it turned out to be less sociable and less fun than she had imagined. It would probably have become more sociable if she had taken the time and effort to make friends with it, but she didn’t. There were no tears when we returned it and I haven’t heard a word about getting a pet since then.<\/p>\n

Ingrid still sleeps in the tent in our back yard each night. She cannot quite articulate what she likes about it, but she sleeps well there and most definitely does not want to move back into her bedroom.<\/p>\n

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