Dilema and a day of fishing

We have had a interesting couple of weeks.  Lillie started school and has taken to it like a duck to water.  I thought I would have alot of trouble getting her settled and used to being away from me, but no, she sold me out like sponge cake.  First day yes she did cry a little but her second day came and whoosh she was off running inside waving goodbye.  So I have had what I thought would be oodles of time to do my own thing but I was surprised to discover how quickly it goes by.  An hour or 2 at the gym, then a quick grocery shop, a few returned emails, lunch and then wham I am back in the car picking them up.  My days are busier and I am more tired now they are both in Kinder than I was before but it is a nice tired, it is a feeling of accomplishment like I actually did something with my time, nothing world changing of course but its a hell of alot more than I was doing which consisted mostly of watching shitty daytime TV and constantly snacking.  When I am bored I eat and I don't seem to be able to feel full.  It is a sure sign that if I am constantly walking back to the kitchen I need to get the hell out of the house and get busy.  Now Lillie isn't going to be in school all day everyday like Judd but 3 days a week I think is enough to give her a break from me, learn new things, socialise with other kids her age and make some friends.  It is already showing positive signs on her, she is attempting to sing the alphabet song already, she also is talking alot more and interacting alot more with us.  She even started signing a kinder song that Judd learnt in his first semester that surprised me as she sang it very well and even used the hand actions.  I have one minor or it could be major problem with her being in kinder, well this kinder in particular - they don't have a pool fence around the school swimming pool - for an Australian to see this and for an Australian to send her kids to a school that doesn't value or recognise pool safety it is a huge conflict with my morals and everything I have ever been taught growing up in North Queensland.  I mentioned my concern to the school principle and I even went so far as to have a meeting with the owner of the school and he made it very clear in his gentle Thai way that he has no real intentions of ever putting a fence up as he believes the landscaping around the pool area is enough of a deterrent to keep the kids away.  Now these plants he is talking about lining the edge of the swimming area are little stick like palms that bunch together to create a sort of screen but I tried to explain to him that a mere bush or plant will not deter a determined child, it only takes one adventurous little 2 or 3 year old to wander away from the supervising teachers and it is a silent death when a child drowns, they don't bob up and down screaming for help, they just slip in quietly and sink straight to the bottom and no one knows until they make the gruesome discovery later on.  But still this obviously well education Thai man had excuses for every argument I could make and all I had to do was to leave there with his assurance that there strict methods of supervising the children will prevent any accidents from happening with that pool. 
Now for Judd I am not so much concerned because over the part month he has begun to swim without his floaties and can swim solo now for the entire length of the communal pool in our village which is approximately 18meters in length.  Pretty impressive for the little guy.  We are so proud of his development and he is really turning into a "little boy" and moving out of the toddler phase.  So for him to fall in I am confident he can swim to the edge and climb out and also the pool is only 90cm deep so he can stand up in it.  But Lillie is far from being able to swim to the surface if she were to fall in, we have been working on her for some time now but she is still so young.
So the point to this story is that I love their school and they love their school and I trust them 100% with my children but could I ever live with myself if something terrible was to happen and my excuse for sending her to that school was that it was the cheaper option compared with the other international kindergartens in town.  Can you put a price on your child's safety?  I know that Australia can be accused of wrapping our kids in cotton wool and being over cautious, but pool safety to me really a non-negotiable.  I have watched the teachers at this school and they are very careful and cautious with the children but wouldn't it make sense to child proof the pool just in case there was that one child who slipped away quietly? 
I just don't know what to do.

On a lighter note we took the kids on our very first fishing expedition today.  I have always thought fishing would be so boring but today I surprised myself and really enjoyed it.  We took the kids to a local Barra Farm just around the corner a bit from where we live.  It is owned and operated by a Aussie and a Kiwi, 2 expats that have been in Thailand for years.  There are 2 big ponds filled with local Barramundi and many other species and a bar with a decent menu and cheap beers and there are staff there who put the bait on your hook, will even cast for you, reel in for you, take the hook out, clean and cook for you all for the bargain price of something like 300baht, that's like $9 AUD.  So we sat there for 3 and a half hours today and we did all the baiting and casting ourselves as we aren't total nitwits and we had such a good time.  Lillie wasn't so keen on it, but she was tired and eventually fell asleep so it was just Marcus, Judd and myself sitting by the pond waiting for the little fishies to come and take our hooks.  Judd loved it, we thought he might do it for 15 minutes and then be over it but he continued to sit there and hold his rod and kept asking "when are the fish coming? did I get one yet?"  He was so cute and when he finally did get one he pulled it out all by himself and was so proud.  I think I took something like 77 photos today as it was just the perfect setting for family shots.  The kids were calm, we were calm and we just sat.  I would take them back every Saturday if they let me, it was really a simple and lovely family day out.  I really do believe that it is the simple things like going fishing together that are the best, rather than dragging them about shopping or sight seeing places they don't understand.  I said it before but I think we need to simplify our lives a little more, take a step back and stop living so fast.