Grad Presentations – What a special day! Hard to believe that only 5 years ago I had this smile on my face 🙂

Violet & I had a lovely morning felting with the international students.

Happy Spring!

The year we brought home a xylophone.

Last week was reading week – you already know that I went to visit Kerstin & John and my nephews for the long weekend. Once I returned to Vancouver I attended  participated in an THE Instructional Skills Workshop. Every day we presented mini lessons to the group and then gave each other feedback. By day 3 even my dreams were structured. The people in the workshop were very diverse, some had no teaching experience while others had been teaching for over 10 years. I loved that everyone came from a different department, which meant I got to think about politics, history, geography, ecology… it was fantastic. I would like to think that my background in ECCE gave me a head-start, because I already think about children and students as participants in their learning. Others struggled with this idea and wanted to “teach” or “lecture”.

Being back at work this morning and trying out some of my new skills was a big success. My curriculum development class was beautiful with lots of participation. It just flew by. After class I bumped into a few colleagues on my way to my office and talked for a while. I signed up for a conference. Being an instructor was a little bit easier today.

Family Day in Prince Rupert 🙂 A weekend filled with cuddling, playing Duplo, art projects, hiking, swimming, playing ukulele, baking, birthday parties… All the good stuff. Only Oma was missing!

Butze Rapids Trail
We’re taking a small break.

Der Kletterbaum.

Lenni is taking his lunch break before returning to work. My favorite: the tigerduck plate <3

Evan and I have been in our new home since October and started wondering about our mysterious neighbor, Melanie. Her love for gardening, especially her plants along the side of her apartment, made us fall in love with this house right away and we’ve been looking forward to meeting her. We finally got to meet her in the week before Christmas. We found out that she has been hit by a car and spent all this time in the hospital 🙁 She is still recovering and wheel-chair bound for a while. So, to keep her spirits bright, we brought her bacon for breakfast (something I have learned from Ainsley, who used to knock on our door with the most delicious food). We delivered groceries. We baked gingerbread cookies together. We had her back when she took her first steps outside of the hospital. We pretended that we’ve known each other for 10 years.