Tuesday evening saw Sue's debut for her adopted Canadian Hockey Team in the Women's league (they call it Field Hockey here!) - Phoenix Black. The outdoor season here runs from May to September and the league runs on a Tuesday evening with games being played between 7pm and 10:30. The debut was a great success and Phoenix Black came out worthy winners 2 - 0. Sue thoroughly enjoyed herself and was made to feel very welcome.
Wednesday evening saw Sue's debut in the Men's outdoor league, for Saracens made up mainly of ex-pats from a diverse range of countries. Saracen's run two mens teams, but a number of Women play in these teams too (Co-ed is the term here). Sue played for the second team - who are the more mature of the two teams. They gave the Saracens first team a good run for their money and narrowly lost 3-2. Once again we were all made to feel very welcome and this bodes well for our time with Canadian Hockey.
Thursday saw us off to register Eron and Flinn with the Calgary Board of Education, and after a short meeting and filling of forms we were allocated places at 'The Ethel M Johnson' elementary school, and told to report Friday morning. We decided that we'd like to take a look at the school before the Boys started, so we called in.
We met the Deputy Principal - Dan Jones who spent a lot of time getting to know Eron and Flinn. School hours are very different to what the Boys are used to. The day starts at 8am and concludes at 3pm on Friday it's noon!! As you can probably imagine Eron and Flinn are delighted at this prospect! The other plus being that they have no school uniform to wear. Eron is joining grade 4 and Flinn grade 1. Dan also suggested that the Boys start school the following week, so Tuesday May 18th will be the big day
After another action packed week and with the prospect of school looming, we decided to head out west on Sunday...
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