Every year for the 2 weeks before February half term,the school the kids attend does a "focus fortnight". The first year K was there the theme for the 2 weeks was Fitness. Last year the theme was Drama and Dance and this year it's "super Citizens".
Very apt since we are fairly newly sworn in as citizens of this fabulous country. Anyway the kids have had to help me with chores and they have had various visitors who are super citizens, the vets, a doctor, plumbers etc, etc. Today they had the local Beavers scout master in and the kids could wear their Beaver/ Scout/ rainbows/ guides uniforms. The reason I mention this is because regardless of the weather which let's face it is usually lousy, the Scout Master wears shorts. We have yet to actually see him in a pair of trousers with long legs. Before Christmas we went to Paulton's Park (for those of you abroad this is an amusement park geared pretty for children under 7 years and although they have some amazing rides for grown ups the bulk of the attractions are for the smaller ones), December was the coldest it has been here in something like 15 years and yes Beaver scout master was wearing his shorts.
If he wore long socks his uniform would look like those hideous safari suits that were all the rage in SA in the seventies, and still the preferred method of dress for most Free State farmers (or is Mpumalanga farmers).
Anyway just thought I'd share this amusing little bit of information and say that even without a card to prove to their teachers - my children are super citizens, and I love them more every day.
In love and light.
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