Same Shirt, Different day-2012 Adventures of the "Devonport Wonder Babes"

Friday 19 October 2012 Singapore

Ruth and Marco’s son Sammy, who is nearly 6 years old, goes to the Overseas Family School and today they were celebrating United Nations day for the kindergarten classes at school with families invited, so we went in our capacity as honorary grandmothers.

 

There are about 90 different nationalities at the school with the kindergarten classes having about 45. All the teaching is in English so all the kids end up speaking English quite well and can communicate with each other.

 Celebration took the form of all kids wearing some sort of national costume, flags being marched into the hall and then a half hour concert of international songs and dance, just the right length to keep attention span both of kids and parents.

 

 

 

 

 

After the concert in the hall, during the morning rainstorm, we all moved off to individual classrooms for lunch provided by parents and lots of talking. This school sells copies of the United Nations charter in the stationery shop !!

 

 

 

 

After finishing at school we walked down to Orchard Rd to a huge  bookshop called Kinokunija  to buy Sam a copy of the  Guinness Book of records plus visits to SinTel to check out iPhone prices here (pretty much same as NZ for unlocked phone not on a plan) and the huge  electronics shop for some iPod speakers.

 

Sammy reading his new Guinness Book of Records

 

After siesta time Sammy and I spent sometime in the pool working on our “falling backwards into the water” technique as this pool is too shallow for diving.




Lynds by pool with flowers in her hair

Looking like my father




getting ready !!

Then we go not quite synchronised !

After dinner we went to symphony concert at the Esplanade Centre in central Singapore with American cellist Lyn Hurrell.

 

Nice walk back along water front viewing buildings by night.