Over the last few weeks, we've been out and about around Perth, done some research in terms of classes and been sick. So generally times have been busy.
Last week Willow went off to try a new choir -
Cottage Children's Choir. She had a great time, and overall their teaching technique appealed to me. It was very active, and fun and made the singing look much less like work. I've also been looking into music teachers, and sport classes, but unfortunately this has all been slowed down a bit by Damien and I being unwell.
We've now been to
City Farm, and although we love the feel of the market, it is very small and really won't be suitable as a place to do our food shopping every week. So at this stage we're thinking of alternating between it and Subiaco. City Farm has a fabulous cafe, and also has a circus skills class happening there on the weekends, so overall there's lots of great stuff on there that really appealled to us. Yesterday we went back to Subiaco, and Willow did some finger knitting, to help with creating some knitted pieces to
yarn bomb Subiaco for Christmas. Over the course of the coming months, a local artist is working at the market to get the community involved in the project.
We've been getting out to a few homeschool meet ups too, and meeting lots of foreigners that have moved here. It seems Perth is very international- I had no idea prior to moving here, and I do like the way that makes for a more diverse city. We've met homeschoolers from Portugal, South Africa, Ireland, Queensland, NSW- it even amused me that most of the Aussies we've met here, have been from other parts of Australia. The last homeschooling outing we got to was at
Scitech, the kids really enjoyed it there, and they certainly had a diverse range of activities happening. Last week we missed an excursion to
Whiteman Park, which I was sorry about, but hopefully we'll get out there one weekend ourselves. In the coming weeks we'll be getting to the Observatory, the Bell Tower and the Mint- so it seems there are lots of interesting activities being planned by people.
Just to finish off, we've found a french cafe here-
Jean Pierre Sancho, which I'm very happy about. Real French bread is so good.
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We still shop at City Farm semi-regularly, and in fact we've done a bunch of things there over the years. Willow, Gabriel and Arden all took circus classes there, as for a while there was a circus school running from their hall. Willow also volunteered with a local artist, and disability support group and helped work on some of the mosaics there. I helped out a friend's daughter by selling her goat's milk and cheese there for about a year. These days I do most of our shopping at Manning Markets, and when I feel like staying nearer to home, I head to City Farm.
This one has a bench that she worked on.
On the stilts with a circus friend.
