Week 37 - School Start

Slowly back to everyday life. I only got a photo of Carlotta going to school because Sofia and Daniele had already left when we got up in the morning. Carlotta started a bit later on her first school day. She said she had a good time at school. She also remembered how she got the sad news about our dog Milla last year after her first day in the elementary school. I had to take the sad decision about taking her to the vet the first day when the children were at school and although they knew it was going to happen, for Carlotta it was a big shock.
This week also the weather turned really autumnish, rainy and about 10 degrees coooler for a couple of days, but on the week-end it was sunny again and on Sunday we had a nice day at the beach.

Holiday in Sardinia

Here are some photo collages of our holiday in Sardinia. I'll let the photos speak for themselves. So many nice memories! As you can see the weather was very changeable during the week.

Week 36

And week 36 finally our beach holiday in Sardinia! We had a lovely week, even if the weather wasn't so nice all the time. This week happened to be a week with some rain, but fortunately only one day was really rainy. On all the other days we managed to go to the beach although we had to escape a few times when it started raining. But holidays are always holidays and we have lots of nice memories from Sardinia and loads of photos, of course.
We went there with our friends and stayed in apartments in the village of San Teodoro. Our apartments were in different parts of San Teodoro, but both in the centre so it wasn't a problem. It was nice because in the evening you could easily go out to have a stroll and look at the stands and shops selling jewellery and other things.
The photo of the week is of my favourite beach there, the beautiful beach of Lu Impostu. You had to walk a few meters in the water to get there.

Week 35

On monday the 27th of August we flew back to Rome. As always it's a little bit sad for me to leave Finland. Carlotta was sad, too and in a way also Sofia and Daniele, but they were eager to meet their friends in Italy again.
We still had two more summer weeks to enjoy before schools started in Rome. It was over 30 degrees in Italy when we got back, so the contrast was big from Finland where it had been very cool already. Daniele's project for this week was to paint his bicycle. Together with his friends he disassembled it, hanged it in a tree and sprayed it with black paint. The difficult part was to assemble it again, especially the brakes, but with the help of his friend's grandfather he managed to get everything to work and now he has got a cool black bicycle.

The summer holidays are over

Preparing the school bag! The summer holidays are over now and today school started here in Rome. Carlotta started the second grade in "Scuola elementare", Sofia her second grade in the "Scuola media" and Daniele went to a new school a bit further away and started his first year in the "Liceo scientifico", which lasts five years. The first day went fine for all of them. Daniele thought his new school seemed quite nice, Carlotta said she could have stayed in school even a bit longer and Sofia got three new teachers and already some homework to do today, which she wasn't so glad about. The weather was cooler and a bit rainy today, so right now it feels like summer really is over.

Week 34 - sweets

This has become a tradition now - bying sweets before leaving Finland. There's a big choice of sweets in the Finnish supermarkets compared to the Italian ones and we don't buy sweets everyday, so the choice is always difficult. Everyone gets to buy sweets for a certain sum of money, but this year Daniele decided to have less sweets and take part of it as money instead.