Saturday, July 16, 2011

Une correspondante

My friend Elke who lives in Australia came up with a great idea: to have our two homeschooling families become penpals. I had a penpal from Corea when I was young and loved the experience, so I was quite excited for my girls to become penpals with Chilli. We just received their first package with a letter, some drawings, a story and beautiful wooden egg prop and a felt wombat. The girls are totally into learning about the animals of Australia. Aïsha already wrote a story about a koala and a kangoroo.

Mon amie Elke qui habite en Australie a eu une excellente idée : que nos deux familles correspondent. J'avais un correspondant de Corée quand j'étais jeune et j'ai beaucoup aimé l'expérience, j'étais donc emballée que mes filles puissent correspondre avec Chilli. Nous venons tout juste de recevoir leur premier paquet qui contient une lettre, des dessins, une histoire avec un œuf en bois qui sert de marionnette et un wombat feutré. Les filles sont très intéressées à en apprendre davantage sur les animaux d'Australie. Aïsha vient déjà d'écrire une histoire sur un koala et un kangourou.

5 comments:

Michelle et Sébastien said...

Je me souviens aussi avoir eu des correspondants étant jeune... dont une sur l'Île Maurice. Elle m'avait envoyé une photo d'elle devant des dizaines de sacs de riz! Je me souviens à quel point je me sentais privilégiée de lui écrire et de la considérer comme une amie. Quels beaux souvenirs:)
Bonne correspondance avec Chilli en Australie!
Michelle:)

Catherine said...

Oui, il y a quelque chose de magique et de fascinant de correspondre avec quelqu'un qui habite une toute autre réalité...

Francesca said...

It's a super idea!

indigomumma said...

Oh BEAUTIFUL! :) Glad they liked the package... I have to say, if that was a real wombat, it definitely wouldn't be crawling so elegantly up a thin stalk of flowers! :)

I remember when G and I were honeymooning down on Wilson's Promontory, there was this almighty noise late in the afternoon and I said 'what is that' looked over and there was this huge furry thing waddling through our campsite. G said "WOW! That's a wombat!" Nooo I said... REALLY! I had seen them in the zoo/at animal parks etc - but up close in the wild they look so HUGE! We also saw them when we camped at Kosciusko NP. The burrows they make are so big. When we were driving late one night on a dark country road, we came up the side of a hill and just over the crest of the other lane was two big wombats asleep in the middle of the road. They are MASSIVE! When we were driving that night, we were constantly seeing their big bums on the side of the road waddling away from the road as they heard us coming! HUGE animals...

Catherine said...

Really! They seems so adorable! How big are they in real life?