Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Patras
Monday 23rd April
We met another British couple, Keith and Janet, and swapped stories and advice over some lovely red wine. The following day we took a drive to ancient Olympia. Max really enjoyed the role play here where we showed him the place for practicing the javelin, discus and running. We also showed the boys the place where wrestling, boxing, long jump and high jump was practised and to help them visualise we got them to do some of it themselves. This was fine until we did the long jump, where upon we were asked to stop as we might mess up the grass! Bearing in mind it was perfectly ok to walk on the grass and that it was obvious a tractor was used to cut the grass we did feel this was little more than kill joy and so quashed the physical teaching of history. However, Max and Jon were able to run in the stadium where the traditional running race was held. Max really enjoyed this site and lapped up all the information and we were able to tell him a little of the history to the Olympic games.
Monday 23rd April
We met another British couple, Keith and Janet, and swapped stories and advice over some lovely red wine. The following day we took a drive to ancient Olympia. Max really enjoyed the role play here where we showed him the place for practicing the javelin, discus and running. We also showed the boys the place where wrestling, boxing, long jump and high jump was practised and to help them visualise we got them to do some of it themselves. This was fine until we did the long jump, where upon we were asked to stop as we might mess up the grass! Bearing in mind it was perfectly ok to walk on the grass and that it was obvious a tractor was used to cut the grass we did feel this was little more than kill joy and so quashed the physical teaching of history. However, Max and Jon were able to run in the stadium where the traditional running race was held. Max really enjoyed this site and lapped up all the information and we were able to tell him a little of the history to the Olympic games.
