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Regenbogen:
Hi, so sorry. I forgot that I hadn't written a reply yet.
Spring is everywhere here. My mum is at home now and she is as well as she can be in those circumstances. Last week she somehow slipped and fell on her good side and hurt her ribs. I needed to convince her to let me drive her to the hospital. This could be dangerous, because she is taking anticoagulants and there could be bleeding inside or a broken rib constricting her lungs. This needed to be checked. Maybe there is a little break in one rib, but nothing serious. I am relieved. It hurts just as well. They gave her some happy pills and now she can sleep like a baby.
Tomorrow, I'm going to teach swimming to a grown-up woman from my village. She's afraid of the water, but we'll see how it goes. We plan to go somewhere where no one knows her. She asked if I knew a teacher for grown-ups, because usually they teach kids in groups. I knew of some, but they are all quite expensive, so I told her that I could try to teach her. And if that is not enough, she can still look for a real teacher. I managed to teach swimming to 3 kids and to one kid I taught a better style, lol. And I was one of the best swimmers in school. I hope, we will manage. For now I have scheduled 3 lessons. We'll see, if she needs more. And I am looking forward to the challenge.
--- Quote ---Also, one of our cities suffered a terrible storm and was flooded. A few casualties and lots of troubles. We are making donations and taking relief measures.
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Oh dear. What a tragedy. I hope the people are getting enough help. It is great that you are helping too.
Dina:
Hi Regen! It is so good to have you back.
I am sorry to hear about your mom's fall but I am glad it is not so serious. I hope she gets better soon and well, at least she is sleeping well :).
I hope your first swimming lesson was good, let us know how it went, please. I am not a very good swimmer. I manage to move a little, I am not completely useless, but I am very slow and not very efficient, so I tire. But I am very good doing the plank (the thing were you just float facing the sky?) :) It was a little frustrating for my dad, who was a very good swimmer and did water polo as a child/teenager but I never had the inclination of becoming a real swimmer. I just wanted to play and enjoy the water.
Thank you for your kind words about the city I told you about. Donations and help poured and i think they are quite better now but a lot of people lost pretty much everything and there is a lot of work to do. The scenes we saw on TV were directly post-apocalyptic, with some cars mounted above others and semaphores half submerged in water. It was terrible.
Regenbogen:
Hi, weird.
They finally started building the house in our neighbour's garden. It's one of his daughters who will live there with her husband and child. For now they have only prepared the ground. Yesterday I watched them set up a small crane.
Update swimming: the first lesson went OK. She is already able to swim. Self taught, but she taught herself wrong. Now she needs to unlearn what she has done all the time. And this is very difficult. Most of the time, she swims under water and just comes up to inhale. That's bad and already caused her to almost drown, do she has panic whenever water touches her mouth and nose.
So she'll have to work on her fear and she is willing to do it. Meanwhile I try to improve her technique. I even gave her homework. We'll see today evening if there is improvement.
Dina:
Hello!
It may be interesting to have new neighbours.
It seems that you are a really good and responsible teacher. I wish you good luck with that.
I had my first class of the year yesterday. It seems that the group of students is quite good with several ones who like to intervene, ask and answer questions. But today I am tired. The first classes always tire me because my body is not used to standing and talk so much.
12 months is now available for pre-order in Amazon and it says it will be released on January 2026, which is quite disappointing.
Regenbogen:
@Dina.
I can imagine how exhausting teaching can be. When I have an intern or an apprentice with me at work, everything takes 3 times as long as it would alone and at the end of the day I have a headache because I talked so much and didn't have time to drink enough.
About 12Months: when he finished writing in February, I was very excited to have the book this year. It is only 10 months from now but it feels like eternity.
Also it is my husband's birthday, which means, I can not start reading at once and have to wait until the guests are gone, lol. Could make me a shitty host perhaps.
But as it is a Tuesday, I am sure he will want to have the party on the weekend. Though there will still be at least my mother as a visitor.
Micro's birthday is on Tuesday and there are not many relatives there because of work.
And later that week I have to go to an indoor trampolin park with 11 kids. Yay :-X
I hope I won't have to jump myself. I am only 0.3 kg from maximum weight. Could be embarrassing.
Back to the book: maybe, the date is a new placeholder and we'll get an earlier release once editing is done.
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