The last week at Grasi has brought with it freezing cold weather, but amazingly the children are yet to get sick with the typical winter colds and coughs (I bet now that has been said, this time next week they will all be sick).
On Thursday and Friday it was too cold for the children to go to school because the temperature fell below minus 25°C. It turns out they have a rule in Latvia that states if the temperature is below 20°C the younger children (under 13’s) don’t have to go to school, and below 25°C none of the children go to school.
Early on Thursday morning the temperature fell to minus 34°C, and the novelty of it being so cold definitely hasn’t being lost on me. It is looking like it may stay this cold for a little while longer however as it is still very cold in Russia, and Latvia often has similar weather to Russia just a little bit later.
There has been photos all over the Australian and British news about the cold snap in Europe at the moment and back home (in Perth, Australia) my parents even saw a special mention of Latvia on the news- it was something about a very high rate of amputations due to the cold. Which was interesting to hear as Latvia rarely gets a mention in Australian news.
The children have spent most of their extra time off inside the houses, playing cards, listening to music and cooking. On Thursday afternoon I taught the children in Oslejas how to make a butter cake with chocolate icing and on Friday we made a banana cake in Ozolini.
On Friday the children from Ozolini and Klavas house spent the day together as Klavas house got a little bit to cold. The lakes near Grasi have now completely frozen over so the older children have been busy cleaning the ice so they can ice skate. Over the weekend the children spent most of the time indoors and were occupied with playing board games, doing chores, going to church/chapel and watching the occasional movie.
On Saturday Viktorija went to Riga for her big music concert. By the time she arrived home on Saturday night she seemed very happy with the outcome, so hopefully everything went well!
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