LIfe is grand!

Hello everyone! I am so sorry I havent been able to post much, I have been swamped with homework and various after school activities. Wynstones is incredible, every day I wake up so excited and ready to greet the day, all of my classes are so insightful and I really feel like I am learning. At Wynstones, no one labels me or jusdges me, instead they inspire me to learn, and help me to achieve my goals. I have recently taken up drawing, I am very fascinated with drawing the human form and face and have never actually drawn before, I was so inspired by my art teacher and fellow pupils that I started drawing on friday and by Monday I was drawing pretty accurate pictures of people and different body shapes, art was a skill I never thought I possesed but Im loving it and next step is learning to paint!!! :) I am also loving school choir! although I  dont know the songs just listening to my fellow pupils is incredible, I will try to post a recording here sometime! My host Mum Sarah has given me the job of walking the dog in exchange for singing lessons! I am so excited!!.I have also joined the girls basketball team! I used to play when I was younger and havent played since so im still working on getting back in my groove! :p the girls on my team are soo nice, sometimes a little too nice so im gonna hel them become a little more fiesty and aggressive out on the court! :) (If you ever saw me play when I was little, youll understand this haha). Last weekend was a class trip to London where we explored many art galleries  , museums and even took in a play! unfortunatley many of us got sick but it didnt stop us from adventuring on and having a really great time with one another, it was definatley a bonding experience which heled get me even closer to my amazing classmates! ahh words cannot describe how much im loving Wynstones! I have never been to a school where I feel so welcomed and loved and I plan to enjoy and absorb every moment of this adventure to the fullest extent! Thank you again to all who contributed! :) xxxx
Isabella

First day of school! :)

So today was the first day of school, and it coud not have gone better! (unless of course if  I had also won the lottery and David Beckham and I got married :p) but really, it was great. I began the morning at 6am (if you know me, or  my hair, you know we take a while to get ready) soo I got ready, went downstairs, finished packing my lunch, grabbed some coffee and was out the door. I was soo nervous walking into the school, seeing all the groups of kids who had odviously grown up together reuniting, telling stories of lush vacations and general relaxation. I walked into the main office and waited for my class guardian to take me to meet my class. We walked over towards the upper school and I was able to meet my new classmates and they are all so nice!! its refreshing to meet a group of people who will immediatly be kind and include you! We all then went into a classroom and began discussing activities. We learned that we are going on a trip to London in about a week to look at museums and take in a play! Im really excited! after discussing the basics and the plans for the day we headed to The 1st grade were we met with our little buddies (it is a tradition at Wynstones for he 12th graders to have buddies that are first graders, so we can guide them around he school and such) we guided our buddies into the barn where we had our first assembly! (they call them festivals here) after the 1st grade teacher told a story and there were small introductions from all the teachers, we (12th graders) presented our 1st grade buddies with a Lily infront of the school. We then sang songs and headed out to our respective areas. All of the upper school met for morning singing before we went into a classroom to register for classes and discuss plans for the year. I have registered for Advanced English, Philosophy&Ethics, Geology and Art! :) (thats not including other mandatory lessons like main lesson) Once everybody was registered we headed over to the first grade to have snack with our buddies,We had hand made buns with jam and it reminded me of when the younger kids at Madrona would bake bread and deliver it to us with Honey butter :) After finishing snack, I headed off to my first Art class, It was really awesome there were like 6 or 7 of us in the class and we did some abstract cardboard cutting and drawing. after that it was lunch. Up until this point I was pretty quiet but I was elated to hear that some of my classmates are avid "Friends" watchers and we all got to talking about various subjects and common interests and such and before I knew it I had been invited to hang out with them this weekend! After lunch it was English class, a small class of 5 or 6 we were able to discuss books and subjects on a deeper level with less interuptions due to the small class size :) after a long English, lesson the bell rang and my first day at Wynstones was officially over. I am so glad to be back at a Steiner School, I cant thank you all enough for contributing, no words can express my love and grattitude for this incredible adventure!
Lots of Love,
Isabella xxx