"I try to take one day at a time ...

... but sometimes several days attack me at once." Ashleigh Brilliant.

And that is what it has felt like the last few weeks. But fortunately I have my students to rescue me - leaving me in fits of laughter and oft-incapacitated; desk-thumping and laughing like a loon. I leave you with some examples of sentences from this past week's grammar and spelling tests - not to mock the writers but just because they are amusing. Remember, for many of them this is their second or third language ...

• “My brother is a mushroom.”  ... I think he was trying to comment on his brother's expanding girth? Well, I hope so. If he really is a mushroom, I'd like to meet him.
• “My grandmother is an obsolete woman – she just lies in bed all day.” ... I hope no-one ever describes me like that when I get old.
• “Phlegmatic means someone who is very exciting.”  ... Really?
• “My sister is obsolete.” ... Oh, why is that? Are your parents thinking of replacing her with a newer, better model?
• “My cousin is pregmatic. She will have a baby soon.” ... Now that's creative use of language!
• “Mr Robin is such an engaging and pleasant person.” ... Not the Mr Robin I know. Can anyone say “sucking up?”
• “Some girls are garrulous.” ... Only some?
• “I have an intuition that my girlfriend is crazy about me.”  ... And most guys don’t understand women, you ladies man, you... 

D, one of the true characters at VVS: "Meesa Rubeen, ees too haaaard!" ... "Stop complaining and work, D" ... "Okay"

J, Grade 12,  showing his skills ... that hoop and backboard have seen better days.

Grade 1 and Grade 12 out on the playground together ...

Those boots really are that big. I don't know how Z, the cutest grade 1 with her spindly legs, runs in those clodhoppers!