Well what a weekend we had... well I had a very quiet one, Rik's was extremely busy and productive. This weekend was the one he was supposed to do the course and exam for Softball . He was very stressed as it was to be all in Portuguese. On tuesday we had a call from the organiser of the course to say that as Rik was so experienced in the sport, not only did he not have to take the course, but that they wanted him to TEACH it, and they would pay him to do it....wow!! It was a wonderful suprise, but also just as stressful as we had to create and produce a full proffesional training module for 15 people.... in 2 days...
Luckily Rik really knows his stuff when it comes to his sport, so he spent a whole evening and most of the night writing the course and organising it, and I did the donkey work of typing it up the next day.
All went to plan, the module went down a treat, everyone was very pleased and enjoyed it a lot.
It was also his birthday and the whole course got together to celebrate at lunch with a cake and lots of jokes and fun.
The upshot of this all is that the Sporting School of Excellence for Portugal wants to employ Rik to implement the introduction of Softball into the National Curriculem in all the schools throughout Portugal..... oooooohhhhhh are we excited or what!!!
Im holding my breath a little, Im hoping all goes to plan....
Today we awoke to a very hard frost, the first of the year for us, not bad for this time of year, sadly it got my potatoes, I should have covered them last night but with all the excitement of Rik being home and his news , I forgot... oh well such is life...
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