Yesterday I had another day of supplying in Terry's grade two class at Kawungan and it went pretty well. There were a couple of annoying kids (boys, of course :-), but I was able to work with them so we all survived the day. :-) I had gone in on Thursday after school to talk with Terry about what I was going to teach the kids on Friday - she was very happy to see me - she had been looking for me earlier in the day. Since I have been in Bronwyn's class for a while, I knew what they were up to so there wasn't a lot of explaining to do which is nice. That's the benefit of working in the same school. I spoke with another supply teacher who used to be a full-time teacher here in Hervey Bay and she told me (which I have been told by the VP) that getting a full-time job at Kawungan is virtually impossible. It seems that there are now a number of mature students going through the teaching program who think that they will be able to get full-time in Hervey Bay and they are apparently in for a rude awakening. This supply teacher couldn't understand why these mature students would even go into the teaching program knowing that their chances of getting a job here were very minimal and that the only other option was to uproot the family and move to an area where teachers were needed.
Dad and I have been quite diligent in getting our exercise in every day. Unfortunately, on Thursday, we did not get to do that as it was pouring all day. Yesterday, we did a 6km bike ride and today we did two forms of exercise: we did a 10km bike ride and about a half hour walk. When we got back from the bike ride (well, actually, on the way back) our backsides were really hurting us - they are just not toughened up enough as yet. :-) We decided to ride down to the chapel and back to see how long it would take us to bike there - it took us about 30 minutes to get there - it took us a bit longer on the way back because the hills are harder to ride up and also we put in an extra .7km going past our place and back so that we could say that we had ridden a total of 10km. Although it was a 'pain in the butt' :-), we felt good being able to say that we had ridden that total number of kms. :-)
We were able to talk with Terri-Ann and the boys today if only for a short while. They had just returned home from a missionary fireside and the boys were all tired. We got to see Benjamin for about 30 seconds and then he was whisked off upstairs by James. Caleb followed Daddy soon after (he is really good about taking himself to bed when he is tired) and then we got to talk with Colin just a little bit more before we could tell that he was very tired and said good-bye to him and Terri-Ann. We are excited to be able to come back and see our 'boys' (and our girls :-) in twelve days, but we are not excited to come back to the wintry weather of Ontario. Colin told us today that it was snowing in Orangeville - today in Hervey Bay, the temperature was 27C (yes, Celcius, NOT Fahrenheit! :-)
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