The theory part of Dad's course finished up this week and everyone passed the final two exams - phew! Dad was tired by the end of the week - I told him that he was lucky that he was never a primary school teacher and had to teach for thirteen weeks in a row and not just three. 😂 For the next two weeks, Dad will be leading the students in the hands-on portion of the course - this will mean many trips to the airplane to perform a variety of hands-on tasks. Dad feels that this part of the course is more practical and useful for the students when they return to their jobs.
I continued on with my exercise classes and gym workouts. I met with Brendon, the personal trainer at the gym, again and he reviewed how I was doing the gym exercises with me. He fine-tuned how I was performing each exercise and gave me some tips on how to work more effectively - it was very helpful.
On Wednesday, I met with the book club at the local library. The book for this month, 'The Little Paris Bookshop', was the book we discussed. I actually didn't finish the book - I did get about two thirds the way through it - but, it just didn't grab me and I wouldn't have even read that much if I wasn't going to be discussing it with the group. There were ten people in attendance which is a good amount for a book club, I think. More than a couple of the group hadn't finished book for the same reason I hadn't. We went around the table and gave our thoughts on the book, but there was very little discussion other than that. I knew that each person had been given a set of questions which could be discussed at the meeting, but for some reason the leader didn't use these questions to generate discussion. I was disappointed at that as there were some really good questions we could have talked about. The interesting thing, too, was the wide range of ratings this book received from the members of the club - most were in my range (2.5/5), but there were a couple of 3s and a couple of 4s.
Yesterday, Dad and I went geocaching again - it was a beautiful day - warm and sunny - and we were out for 5 hours walking/hiking to try and find three caches. The first cache was at the top of this huge hill and we had to walk up some very steep sections covered with rocks and dirt to get there. We found the cache under a pile of rocks. Finding the second cache was quite an adventure! We parked in one spot and started along the path. As we walked along the path, however, it became evident that we were not in the right place to get to the cache. We decided to continue on, however, as the path led to a waterfall and we wanted to see it. After coming back to the car, we drove to a second spot where we thought we would have a better chance of finding the location of the cache. No luck there, either. We then thought we would go back to the first location and try a different path than the first one we took thinking that maybe we hadn't gone far enough along the path the first time. Still no luck. Dad then thought that maybe our starting point needed to be at the top of the falls, so we jumped in the car and drove there. FINALLY, we were successful!!! By this time, we were hungry and tired and so decided to leave the third cache for next weekend. Even though it took us ages to find these two caches, we loved being outside and hanging out with each other. Geocaching is fun! 😊
Very steep hill we had to climb up - it really was way steeper than it looks!
