Hey Y'all! Greetings from Texas. I landed 3pm Texas time (8pm UK time) and was greeted at the airport by Mrs Voigt - Principal Teacher of Heritage Elementary School. She then took me back to her school where I met my host, Mary Anne Stevens, and I then went back to her place and was introduced to her son Jared.

Tuesday night was Family night - a tradition that happens about 3 times a year where staff and their families, along with pupils and their families come together at a restaurant to socialise. When we arrived I met Bert, Mary Anne's husband and some of the other staff from H.E.S. The restaurant we went to was a Tex Mex - I can't remember the name, I will blame the jet lag on that one. Once we were done we came home and I headed to bed, as I was still pretty much on UK time and it would have been 2:30am and I had been up from 4:30am the previous day.

Today in school was Veteran's Day (Remembrance Day) and some of the students had brought a guest to introduce themselves to the school - their guests were anyone they knew who had or is serving in the Armed Forces.

Oh before that though I made my first appearance on American TV - KHES - the school's morning news programme.

I spent the morning visiting the classes throughout the school meeting all the children and staff. All the time I was doing this the sky was bright blue without a cloud in the sky (and I have photographic evidence just to make everyone back in Scotland jealous).

At the end of the day I joined the staff at their faculty (staff) meeting in the library, and I was the only male their from about a group of 30 - and I thought it was tough a Linlithgow, lol.

Anyway had a great 1st full day in Texas and I will try and get time to post more throughout the rest of the time I am here.

Bye y'all!