Lake Brunner Primary School. I've been going here once a week, working with a group of four eight year olds, as part of an understudy with a woman who runs a program called Leading Edge. Schools contract her to come in and work with challenging students using Neuro-Lingustic Programming (NLP). Some of you have probably heard about it before- basically understanding how we have control of our brain and therefore can choose to succeed, conquer our fears, change our thinking patters etc.

The playground of the school. It's such a beautiful spot! We have our sessions in the library with a great big window overlooking the lake- so nice.

I took the dogs with me this time and stopped for them to play on the way home. This black swan decided it was best to observe us from a distance rather than on land.

Looking across the lake at Moana- the town where we school is. It takes me an hour to get there driving on back roads from home. From Greymouth, the bigger of the two towns we live near, it's a half hour drive. Moana has become the trendy, quasi-yuppy place to live and commute into town. There are a lot of holiday homes too for Christchurch people during the summer. I stayed a night in Moana almost four years ago on my wee bike tour. Mom and Dad do you remember visiting Moana? We ate lunch on a cafe deck overlooking the lake.