William and Oliver attend the American International School in Chennai, which is mainly staffed with teachers from the USA. One 'concern' we had was that Oliver and William might start spelling things the American way, talking about Math and even adopt an American accent! There has been no emergence of an accent, however, William has taken to writing the date the American way in case his teacher gets confused!
No sooner had they got settled in than the holidays came around. At Dulwich the holiday in April always tied in with a Chinese festival and not Easter. This was not the case at AISC, so for the first time since starting school the boys had an Easter holiday. Except that everyone was calling it Spring Break, which for me had connotations of American Uni students going wild!
Sam also for the first time got Good Friday as a holiday and he then took the next week off. Unfortunately the weather was a bit too warm for serious sightseeing so we did some sorting in the house interspersed with time in the pool, explored some local restaurants and spent a day at a coastal resort 20 minutes drive away.
Luckily the Easter Bunny knew we were in Chennai and had the foresight to hide the eggs inside where they wouldn't melt. Emily received a couple of books in an egg shaped package.
We also received some Easter gifts from the Smiths, Smiths and Jarmans, some of which had melted and reformed in the Chennai post but was delicious nonetheless.
Sam cooked a delicious lamb casserole and we decorated eggs with self portraits. After lunch we cracked eggs together and Emily won!
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