October 19, 2010

Happy Anniversary to us! :-)  We both had a really good day today - me at school and Dad running around like a little chicken with his head cut off. :-) 

All of our students were here at school today, but maybe the extra day off made a difference because all of the 'challenge' children were manageable today.  Ryley even earned three stamps today (one for each session) which really pleased all of us.  I worked a little with Travis today and he seemed pleased with the little bit of time I could give him.  I spent most of the day working with small groups or one on one with students.  It is so nice having two teachers to twenty students - too bad we couldn't have it like this all the time.

I went into talk with Leanne, the VP, today to see if there were any other contract positions coming up beginning next week and she said that she didn't know of any.  She told me that they were very pleased that I could work for them for the past five weeks and asked me if I had enjoyed myself.  I told her that 'most' of it had been enjoyable. :-)  For the next three weeks, I will just see if I get any supply teaching jobs - if not, that's fine, too - I won't mind having some downtime. :-)

During the day, Dad cleaned the house, did a little grocery shopping, did a couple of errands, mowed and trimmed the lawn and got dinner/dessert ready early.  Phew!

After school, Dad and I took a 6km bike ride around the area we live in.  We even rode into the Anglican College to see if the kangaroos feeding on the grass there would hop away if we came near them.  There were about ten of them on the grassy area of the school when we started riding up towards them - as we got closer, half a dozen of them hopped away, but four of them just stood there and stared at us as we stood there.  It was so cool to be so close to them - next time we go for a ride, we are going to take our camera with us to get some photos of them - we will post some on here when we do that.

We had the missionaries over for dinner tonight - it seems that Tuesday nights have become our 'usual' night to have them over.  We made tacos for them (well, Dad made them) and they really like them, as did we.  We made them a white cake with chocolate icing for dessert (well, Dad  made it) which they also liked (and took the rest home - Elder Lock said he was going to eat it for breakfast :-)

We will celebrate our anniversary tomorrow by going out to dinner to an Italian restaurant here in town - we are really looking forward to it!  AND, we are NOT going to count the calories from the virgin pina coladas or the pavlova which we eat tomorrow.

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