We're going swimming tomorrow! :-) Just thought I would put that in since I got an email from Uncle Kenny telling me that it had snowed in Barrie last week. :-)
Nana will be pleased to hear that we have FINALLY had our wills written up - well, they are in the process of being done. We went to the lawyer's yesterday and spoke with the girl there. We had a lot of questions for her especially since we are in Australia and you girls are in Canada, but we were assured that with the way technology is today, there were no issues at all.
We went to see a woman at H & R Block today to find out how to do our taxes since Dad is earning money in Canada and I am earning money here in Australia. We were with her for almost two hours talking about how to file our taxes here. It turns out that it's a lot easier than we thought it would be. The cost of her services was covered by the money we are receiving back from the government here, so that was good, too. We will likely use her services next year as well, just to make sure that we have understood all the ins and outs of the income tax system here. Hopefully, after that, we will be able to do the returns on our own.
We didn't get our exercise in last night because we still had three movies to watch (they had to be back today) - Dad and I watched one and I watched one while Dad was out at his weekly SES meeting. We watched 'The Kite Runner' together - it's about a young boy growing up in Afghanistan who then moves to the U.S. when war breaks out in Afghanistan - he then returns to Afghanistan as an adult when a close friend dies. It is a very good movie, but it is very emotional - it was hard to watch some of it as I have a hard time watching movies which show how badly some people treat others - I won't be reading the book as I think it would take too much out of me. I really prefer to watch movies which entertain me rather than ones like 'The Kite Runner'. While Dad was at SES, I watched 'My Sister's Keeper' - another really good movie, but also very emotionally draining. So, I was wiped out by the time I went to bed last night (emotionally speaking).
I was called this morning by TRACER, the company which calls supply teachers to fill in for absent teachers. Unfortunately, I couldn't take the job since we had the appointment with the woman at the tax office (and that HAD to be done today), but at least I now know that Tracer has my phone number. Since I hadn't received any calls up to that point, I wasn't even sure if I was in their system to be called. Hopefully, I will receive a call or two next week. I was asked today (at Kawungan) if I would take over Jane's class (another grade two class) on Monday, so that's great as the kids in that class know me a little bit. I also have Terry's class on Friday, so one more day of supply teaching this coming week would be good. I would like to aim for two to three days of supplying each week when we come back from Canada (and the new school year starts).
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