The first Zoom Quiz I’ve been involved in went pretty well! We had 25 people in 7 teams and managed to get through the set up, 7 rounds of questions and answers and results in 2 hours… bit longer than planned but good fun. As the Quiz Master I emailed everyone a PDF with the questions each round – discovering only after it was all over that Antony didn’t get them… he’d been missed off the list but didn’t mention it to me til […]
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Day 24
Bit of an Asian theme to the last couple of meals… Last night I made bibimbap – a typical Korean dish with rice, vegetables, a Korean chilli sauce and an egg. It is a great vegetarian option so I ordered this a lot in Korea! If you order dolsot-bibimbap (bibimbap served in a hot pot) at a restaurant, they usually break a raw egg over the vegetables and it cooks in the heat of the dish… but I fry my egg first and place […]
Day 23
Last night I video chatted with friends in Dunedin and then my host parents in Denmark. Then we got on zoom and set up Ticket to Ride and played with my parents who are in isolation in Naseby. Lots of fun 🙂 Yay for technology that makes it so easy to connect these days! It doesn’t seem THAT long ago that I was living overseas before email was invented… writing and receiving letters in the post! Such a different world, in a relatively short […]
Day 22 – TimeBank
So I was in the paper yesterday – well a skinnier, pre-lockdown version of me was anyway! I spoke with Guardian reporter Susan Sandys last week about what the Timebank is up to… and she must have found this photo in their archives from a few years ago! Some readers will recognise the bright green shelves. The article is probably too small to read but at least you can see the title- which is our slogan at Mid Canterbury TimeBank. Even though the usual […]
Day 21 -Home Learning TV
Term 2 began today and as I shared yesterday I have made some videos for my students, to review te reo Māori work we’ve done so far this year. I wonder if any of the students have seen them yet! As I don’t have my own class I didn’t have any zoom calls with anyone today… So I did what any responsible teacher would do and researched the Ministry of Education’s offerings on Home Learning/ Papa kāinga TV! After my body balance class on […]
Day 20 Easter Weekend
So having written food posts on Sunday and yesterday, I didn’t write what we got up to on those days. Sunday I spent a few hours binge watching ‘The Resident’ while cracking lots of walnuts! I enjoyed a lovely video call with my brother and his adorable girls in Wellington. Then I made some videos for te reo Māori teaching that starts this week. It’s not something all the kids will necessarily do, so I don’t want to teach anything new… just giving ways […]
Day 19 FOOD- Part 2
So yesterday I did the big Food Part 1 post, mostly focused on breakfast, lunch and dinner. Today we carry on with Part 2… this time focusing on snacks, treats and drinks. I’m more of a savoury girl than a sweet one, so more often than not would opt for popcorn, pea flour crackers or walnut crackers over anything sweet. Sometimes even a fork full of kimchi! Proper Crisps have a couple of their chip flavours in home compostable packaging so on the odd, […]
Day 18 – FOOD Part 1
I love food… growing it, preparing, cooking and most of all eating it! I’ve already blogged about my marrow/ zucchini abundance and how I cooked and baked with it … but here is a dedicated lockdown FOOD post. Being vegetarian with a preference for a dairy free, wheat free diet and zero waste… some people have a hard time imagining what it is I actually eat! I can assure you I eat well and often. 🙂 Here’s a run down of some staples/ usual […]
Day 17 – Reflection
I didn’t sleep that well last night waking up several times and dreaming lots in between. One dream was about a school student and I going to the movies together but we were running around trying to find the entrance to the movie and we were late. Our seats were also special flying ones so while watching the movie you flew around on these special seats. Sounds fun hey? Not so much fun was being tired today thanks to disrupted sleep and still having […]
Day 16 – Transformation
It’s Friday – Good Friday – and what a good day it was – a really stunning sunny day from beginning to end! It says it was 21 degrees but it felt hotter than that to me… Given it was a public holiday, Antony and I had a break from our work and spent the day emptying, cleaning and rearranging the entire garage and the garden shed. Not as fun as being with our friends on the Crown Range which is where we were […]