School life a Montpellier

As I was preparing dinner tonight in the kitchen, the children were all around me...skipping and dancing in the bedroom, on a barstool at the kitchen bench writing Sasha's birthday card, at the kitchen table doing des devoirs.

Today seemed a great day at school, and the pearls coming out of the mouths of babes were priceless:

Will: I played with so many boys today. We played "Attrap les files"....catch the girls. Went on to explain, could be "garcons attrap les filles" ou "filles attrap les garçons"

Will: "I have so much homework. I have to read for a demi-heure....can't believe I have to read for 15 minutes."

Sasha: "Will, a demi-heure is 30 minutes!"

Mum: "Why do you have so much homework?"

Will: "Mum, I am the highest grade in school! Higher the grade, more the homework."

Sam, sitting down to his apparent homework, saying quietly to himself "I will need to use a stylo bleu".
(he thought the notice about after-care, written in french, was his homework. Bless him! Needlesss to say he happily bounded away from the kitchen bench, when he realised he had no homework)

Mum to Sasha: "Does Vincent still tell you he likes you?" A very cute story that one. This lovely boy Vincent, who can speak English, has liked Sasha from day one, and keeps telling her he likes her. He wrote her a poem...

"When the rain falls, you are the rainbow in the sky"!!

Will: "I wish Sasha knew the word for cute in french, so she could tell Vincent."

Sasha's reply: "I know the word for cute, it is "mignon"...but why would I say that to him? That means 'little', Vincent isn't little!"

Anyway, happy evening at Chez Edney.

Sasha's birthday tomorrow and she is very excited. Would you believe no rice crispies in Montpellier, so I couldn't prepare my usual low-key chocolate crackles for her class. Oh well, some Haribo lollies will have to do!

Sasha wants to come home for lunch tomorrow, instead of the canteen, so I can make her an omelette. Then, tomorrow night, sushi in France.

For her pseudo birthday party, we are heading to Avignon for the weekend, and have booked ourselves into Novotel Avignon, in the heart of the old city and with a swimming pool, for a bit of 4-star 'luxury'. Happy days!

Love to all.

M x