Riggs day 11
Fri 28th October - 7.00pm by Caroline Riggs
Woke up this morning at 5:20am to hammering on the door, leaped out of bed thinking someone was sick or mike had stood on some sort of puffer fish again but as I opened the door I realised that it was the hotel staff banging on the too next door for the inconsiderate reason of safaris leaving. After my heart rate returned to normal it dawned on me that it was PPI today :)
The whole school was sat/stood/crouched in an area the size of 1 and a half B labs. Perhaps half the music room at st Andrews. It was stuffy and very very hot. Dripping with sweat hot. Then Mr Edward started the singing, all the childrens's voices filled the room and echoed off the metal walls and roof. We smug my favourite song called "I am happy today" with the best line ever of "and the way to be happy is to make someone happy and have a bit of heaven down here". Every person in there was singing and clapping and dancing. At one stage we were all jumping up and down to the song "victory is mine" and I felt shivery cold at the feeling of togetherness.
Lessons then continued as normal for everyone as I took my first trip to doctor Luke's with Pagey. At lunch we gave out games and I taught some little ones to play jacks for a good ten minutes before they all decided they wanted to keep one of the jacks or the bouncy ball and took off in different directions leaving me sitting on the dusty floor in the mid day sun wondering what happened.
Safari this weekend so no blogs. Love to all x

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Comment by Jackie Riggs
Jambo from Dublin!
enjoy the weekend safari! x
Comment by Jennifer Milan
Riggso!
Your blogs have been a-mazing. Looking forward to seeing/hearing all about it on your return. I hope your safari experience is tremendous!! Get a picture of an elephant for me - they're my favourite. :)
Hope the hat has served you well for it's second year!
J
Comment by Caroline Adams
Jambo from Hickling. Great so see pics. All looking happy.Enjoy safari
Comment by Riggso
Milano!
We got a video of the kids in their hats singing for you to see :-) Plenty of elephant pictures for you, the hat has kept my head from getting sun burnt, however not my arms, legs, nose, shoulders..........
Hope you had a good half term see you Wednesday :-)