That Was The Week That Was !

...and it's nearly over !

We've had smiles and tears, we've had joy and frowns, we've had raised voices and gentle whispers... and all that was just from Ms Robbens at dinner time tonight !

all in all, it's been a fantastic week - the kids are now packing, and the general feeling is a mixture of excitement at being home tomorrow and sadness at leaving Glasbury and although their new bruises will fade, the memories will not.

Sleep tight (for it may be you last night of peace for a while)

See ya tomorrow !

Friday Morning - The final day

Very quick note this morning - running late.

Last night we experienced our first drop of Welsh rain - it's just as wet as the English stuff

At breakfast this morning some kids asked if they could stay a few more days. Today we have a group doing canoes, another doing caves, and the other two are going to the waterfalls. It's a bit cloudy out, but hopefully will stay dry today.

A great day had by all. Mr Langtry and his group have a very cold but enjoyable day splashing through the Gorges and beautiful waterfalls. Mr Molloy and Miss Willers went Canoeing, the children did brilliantly paddling 4 miles down river to Hay on Wye. Myself (Mr Crouch) and Ms Robbens took out their groups to climb a mountain (around 6 miles) the children are absolutely shattered now, but loved it.

As posted yesterday, please understand that our day starts very early at 7am. We do not have any spare time to update blogs and/or edit videos until late into the night when the children finally go to sleep. Once a video is edited it has to be converted to the correct format and compressed. it then takes around 20 minutes per video to upload to Blogger. Please understand that the videos posted are merely snippets of the full footage to give you an idea of what the children are doing and to see them having fun. We are unable to search through hours of footage from each of the four groups to pick out individual children, but endeavor to do our best to give an overall picture of the days activities. In addition if the children are wearing waterproof clothing you may find it difficult to identify individuals.

The full version of the footage will be available from the school in July when the children leave the school for them to keep as memories of their stay here at Glasbury.

Some more videos from the last couple of days....

Thursday Morning - Shamrocks & Shenanigans

All the boys were up at sunrise this morning, playing table tennis and pool ! The girls...? Well most of them were snoring their heads off and needed calling !

Today is St Patrick's Day and to make Mr Langtry feel special we have asked the children to say "Top o'the mornin' to ya" - we suspect that after the 700th time in half and hour that Mr L is finding it a little annoying. Tough luck ! He's got another 13 hours of it !

And as a double special treat he got a very 'unique' performance of Riverdance at breakfast time.

Sun is shining, bones are aching, but still having fun.

More later