{"id":698,"date":"2010-01-14T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2010-01-14T07:47:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T05:47:05","slug":"back-to-school-well-in-my-case-back-to-varsity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/back-to-school-well-in-my-case-back-to-varsity\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to school &#8212; well in my case, back to Varsity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big thing yesterday was when all the kids went back to school, the whole country on the same day due to the fact that everyone will have a 5 week holiday in June\/July for the World Cup.&nbsp; If you do not know what World Cup, under what rock have you been hiding?<\/p>\n<p>Now in my case (or my kids should I say), it is not back to school but back to varsity.&nbsp; Although varsity only officially starts on 25 Jan, both my son and daughter went back this week.&nbsp; My daughter is first year and have to do all the first year things for the next 2 weeks &#8211; what a lot of fun.&nbsp; My son is third year but he is a mentor for the first years and have to babysit the lot of first years.<\/p>\n<p>They are both at Stellenbosch, daugther studying B.Sc Human Science and son studying Chemical Engineering.&nbsp; It is going to be weird not to have to worry and care about school things anymore.&nbsp; My kids are not kids anymore but young adults and I am so proud of them.&nbsp; Yes, we bump heads, have arguments and fights but that is how things have to be.&nbsp; They have there own opinions and have to learn by making mistakes and bumping there heads.<\/p>\n<p>Off to go drop of things that my son\/daughter forgot at home.&nbsp; Any advice how to get them to remember?&nbsp; Like they say in Afrikaans &#8230; head full of &#8220;muisneste&#8221; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Whether you have kids at school or varsity, let it be a good learning year for them and do allow them to have some fun along the way also.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/school\" rel=\"tag\">school<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/university\" rel=\"tag\">university<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=3a200463-cb2b-8fc9-ab51-1be6a85ac25b\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big thing yesterday was when all the kids went back to school, the whole country on the same day due to the fact that everyone will have a 5 week holiday in June\/July for the World Cup.&nbsp; 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