The year 2016 started with full speed. Our friends went back to Australia, I travelled to Finland for work and Grandma came to help out at home while I was gone. 
Finland was very, very cold, the coldest day it was 25 below zero and coming from 35 plus was quite a shock for the body. When it began to warm up, a snowstorm arrived, so I really got to experience winter.
Meanwhile in South Africa, little I started grade 0 at Dainfern College. She loves school but not the uniform she needs to wear as she really is a dress-loving girl. Back in SA, I went with Grandma to work at Tokozani preschool in Diepsloot one morning. The classrooms were crowded but the main purpose is to keep the children away and safe from the street, while parents are at work.
Last week, I went back to Diepsloot Combined School to help teach English to a new batch of third graders. There were 66 children in the class, with one ordinary teacher! Surprisingly enough, they were all silent when we arrived. 
Now we have one year to improve their English so that they are better prepared to manage school, which will be in English from now. Many did not know the alphabet yet….
