Zali

Saturday, 30 May 2020

Last week Zali went back to college. Which was great as she's been missing it, and her friends, and although she's done pretty well at home some of her subjects don't really lend themselves to online teaching.

While she has missed school, I think Zali has enjoyed the extra time available to crafts and other non-school pursuits.  Amongst other more physical projects she's also learnt 62 tik-tok dances off by heart which is pretty impressive given she comes from a family of very unmusical people. Actually Zali is full of surprises - today while listening to a song on JJJ that listed a couple of american states, Zali casually mentioned that she knew the names of quite a few states.   I immediately scoffed and suggested that there's no way she would know more than I would - I mean seriously why would she have cause to know more than the few that are mentioned in songs or the latest netflix drama that her and Jett are binging?  This lead to a 10 minute challenge to write out the names of as many states as we could.   I knew I wouldn't get all of them but I did exceed my prediction of 35 and ended up with 39 (although South Virginia was subsequently ruled out). Jon got about the same.  And Zali?  She got 48. Sheesh.

 Anyway - the reason for this post is so that we all remember the lovely curated and colour co-ordinated area behind Zali's school desk.  This is the part of her room that is visible during the zoom meetings:

While this is actually Zali's desk:

That looks a lot more like my entire room did when I was growing up.