Purple Dragon

Type in what the questions ask you into google search and use the first thing that comes up as your answer.

1. Type in "[your name] needs" in the Google search:
Carol needs to be developed for future advancement

2. Type in "[your name] looks like" in Google search:
Carol looks like one of Mary Wollstonecraft's "mere dolls"

3. Type in "[your name] likes" in Google search:
Carol likes Ted, but neither Bob nor Alice

4. Type in "[your name] says" in Google search:
Carol says all you need is love with pictures

5. Type in "[your name] wants" in Google search:
Carol wants to stay home

6. Type in "[your name] does" in Google search:
Carol Does Rosa Chá

7. Type in "[your name] hates" in Google search
Carol hates Interviews

8. Type in "[your name] goes" in Google search:
Carol goes the distance in Madeira

9. Type in "[your name] loves" in Google search:
Carol Loves Her Mondrian

10. Type in "[your name] has" in Google search:
Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident

11. Type in "[your name] gets" in the Google search:
Carol gets a mention as well

12. Type in "[your name] eats" in the Google search:
Carol eats everything

13. Type in "[your name] can" in the Google search:
Carol can look up that key and use it to encrypt and send confidential messages

14. Type in "[your name] drinks" in the Google search:
Carol drinks only bottled water in France

15. Type in "[your name] makes" in the Google search:
Carol makes key recommendations to overcome the challenges

I wasn't clear in my last post, it seems.

The local councl run the local swimming pool. They run swimming lessons for the children, starting at pre-school right up to swimming club level.

They have blocks of (usually) 10 lessons, the last of which is when parents are allowed in to watch their children - there isn't a 'public' viewing area. We sit on swimmers benches at the side of the pool during the last week's lesson.

There is a teacher in the pool with the children of each class, and each class has a lifeguard next to the pool, walking up and down the edge watching the class and making sure each child is okay.

On this occasion, the teacher was in the pool with the pre-school children (aged about 3). The teacher left four of the five children at the side of the pool, and took the child she was doing one-on-one with across the pool, and left her at the other side. She then swims back to get the next child, and so on. As there is only one lifeguard, she stands at the end with the most children. (More children = more likely to have a carry on and have an accident).

This morning's incident took place at the end of fewer children, where there was no lifeguard.

I am not condoning this system, just clarifying it. It had nothing to do with our school.

This morning was Rachel's last swimming lesson of this block. On the last lesson, the parents are allowed in to watch, and see what progress they have made.

In Rachel's group are five children, four girls and a wee boy. Rachel and the boy were at one side of the pool, being watched by the lifeguard. The teacher was in the middle with one of the children, going from one side to the other. The remaining two chidren were at the parent side waiting their turn to go across.

Suddenly one of the children at our side lost her woggle and it floated away. She was too far from the side to grab the bar, and she went under. The lifeguard didn't notice what was happening - she was watching the other children at the far end of the pool. Stupidly, we sat there, and watched her drowning. It can't have been for more than a second or two, but time was frozen. The mother cried her daughter's name, and tried to climb down from the viewing platform. The father closest to the child jumped off the platform, took two steps and was in the water, fully clothed, saving the drowning child.

Then it was over. The child was crying in her mother's arms, the lifeguard was checking her over, the father was standing in a dripping puddle.

Every other parent stared at their child from that moment on, never taking their eyes away for a second.

I don't know if I can let Rachel go back.