"They have to get some type of release." She suggested quiet conversation be allowed during lunch.
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Surely they'll have a full detention hall tomorrow, won't they?Ĭhristine Lamoureux, whose 12-year-old is a sixth-grader at the school, said she respects the safety issue but thinks it is a bad idea. Any child who breaks the rules will serve detention the next day. The principal's letter also spelled out other new lunch rules, including requiring students to stay in their seats and limiting them to one trip to the trash can. Rose of Lima School explained in a letter to parents that if the lunchroom is loud, staff members cannot hear a child choking. No one was hurt, but the principal of St. The move comes after three recent choking incidents in the cafeteria. What's that? No pushing in the queue? No throwing of bread rolls? If you put a penny in someone's chocolate milk, they've got to down it?Ī Roman Catholic elementary school adopted new lunchroom rules this week requiring students to remain silent while eating. It seems an elementary school there has instituted a dramatic policy for the dinner hall. I'll stick more pics of other cities up as I visit them. Still, if you search hard enough, you can find plenty of places to enjoy a cup of tea or a sugar-laden pastry. You'll spot that the weather got a bit gloomy in the afternoon, as did my mood when I discovered the "miniature Portugal" theme park was closed for annual repairs. The university precinct is right on top of the hill. Here's a view of the centre from across the river. Coimbra's is typically solid, but somewhat uninspiring. They don't have the great gothic fronts that adorn so many in England or other countries.
I find something about Portuguese cathedrals a little disappointing. The rags you can see hanging from the branches and strewn about the ground are in fact trousers and shirts, and although we didn't see any young people running about in the altogether, there was a stench of beer around those trees. Apparently a colony of bats lives inside to eat the insects that might damage the books, but we couldn't spot them.Ĭoimbra has a reputation as a party hearty student town, and we spotted some evidence. The decoration is magnificent, although they don't have any Catherine Cookson. The highlight of the university is the ancient library. We got there early and that's the best time to visit: by about 11.30, there were loads of coach parties milling around.
If you see one thing in Coimbra, you should see the old university. This is the main square of the old university. Suffice to say it's a pleasant city to spend a day (although I doubt you'd need more time than that) with narrow winding streets in the old city around the cathedral and university, and some attractive buildings and views of the countryside. I'll let the pictures do most of the talking about Coimbra. And R and I were able to escape sharply afterwards and find a decent place to stay. Of course there were moments where we had to get out of our chairs and read more pieces of paper blu-tacked to the wall, but overall the thing could have been a lot worse.
Just a word on the training sessions: I had feared the worst before I left, and indeed felt somewhat morose after the first seminar (involving reading a lot of pieces of paper blu-tacked to the wall) and lunch (it took over an hour for my spaghetti to turn up, and it was disgusting when it arrived), but a couple of the afernoon sessions were actually quite interesting.
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We (my sidekick, R, and I) trekked up on Saturday for a series of training sessions, before having Sunday to explore and enjoy the place. I was on a trip to the city of Coimbra, about halfway between Lisbon and Porto, which is the home of the the country's oldest university. Sorry for the lack of posting over the weekend.
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