I had another good day supply teaching Friday. I was at Torquay for just two hours (well, I got paid for two hours) and I was so happy when I found out I was with Chantelle's class as I had planned on staying all day with her class. Chantelle had 'warned' me about a young boy named Brayden and I was wondering how he would be for me since he didn't know me. Fortunately for me, he didn't show up. Those who were there were easy to teach (although there was one boy who could get annoying if I had to have him full-time) and we had a good two hours together. I stayed on with Chantelle to help her out, but it turned out that there wasn't much to help her with. I think that all teachers are feeling a bit overwhelmed at this time due to report cards coming up and having to have all sorts of assessment done at this point. Chantelle said that next time I came in, she would definitely have things for me to do.
Dad met up with John today (motorcycle teacher) to take his test - and he passed! YAY!!!!! John only had to ride with Dad for 90 minutes to know that Dad was ready to get his license. John met Dad at our house and watched him ride around some quieter areas of HB. He gave Dad some pointers (eg: not to take the corners so wide) and watched Dad ride some more. He then asked Dad to drive down into the middle of the town so that he could watch Dad maneuver through busier traffic. After that, it was out onto the highway to see how Dad handled the scooter going at 100km/h. After that, John followed Dad home (John drove his motorcycle over from Maryborough) where he filled out the paperwork to say that Dad had completed the assessment successfully and then Dad took that paperwork over to the DMV to have the scooter endorsement added to his driver's license. I am still not comfortable with knowing the streets of HB to take the test, but John told Dad that if that is the only issue, he could come out and take a longer time to assess me. I could also wait for Robyn and Geoff to get back and do some more practicing. I'm not sure what I will do, but I told Dad that he is not allowed to ride 'my' scooter until I get my license and I can go out and ride on my own. :-)
Dad picked me up from school and we drove to the Family History Centre as he had to close it up. I nipped onto the computers, put in my info about Richard Terry (great grandfather) to see if I could find the family tree and it popped up right away. I couldn't believe it! I checked out the info and I was able to pick up something that might help in my search, but most of it was stuff I already had. The person who put it on the site was listed as Nikki, but I couldn't find out who she was or how to contact her.
When we got home, I got a phone call from Mark Brose who is the Deputy Principal at Pialba and he asked me if I was available to teach next Monday and Tuesday. I had to check my calendar as I am getting a few days booked up now. I was available for both days and so he has booked me in to teach three different classes for the first day (Prep, grade 2 and grade 5 for an hour each - he told me that he knew that grade five was out of my comfort zone, but could I do it for just one hour and I said 'yes'). On Tuesday, it will be half a day with a Prep class and half a day with a grade two class (I am going to ask Mark if it's possible to do Mrs. Dean's class who I had last week if he doesn't have anyone particularly assigned to her class). I am excited to be getting some jobs at other schools and now I have two days booked next week (and we don't go on Friday next week as it's 'Show Day' - the kids get the day off school to go to the Maryborough Show - like the CNE). I also have three days prebooked for the next week at Kawungan in the grade two classes (each teacher gets half a day's coverage). Things are starting to look up! :-)
We got to Skype with Terri-Ann and the boys yesterday morning - I love that! :-) They had just arrived back from the ice-cream store and so the boy were covered with ice-cream - they looked so cute. Colin was singing a song I had learned at camp back when I was about 13 - I couldn't believe it when I heard him singing those words - who would have believed that someone would have taught him that silly song that I had learned all those years ago. It's called 'Vista' and I do it with the kids I teach as it's fun and silly and they love yelling 'VISTA' at the end. I told Colin that when I do it with my class, I have them hit their knees and then clap their hands. I meant that we hit our knees with our hands, but he thought I meant that we hit our knees together so that's what he was doing. :-) What a cutie! Colin reminds me a lot of Terri-Ann when she was a little girl in that he likes the limelight. :-) Caleb was trying to sing us a song he learned at 'Teddy Bear school' and Colin was trying to sing over him. :-) Benjamin was babbling, but when I told him to say 'Ma', he did! What a clever boy! :-)
I drove by myself for the first time yesterday - YAY me! :-) My friend, Denise, was going to visit our friend, Judy, in the Maryborough hospital and I wanted to go with her. I was not comfortable, however, driving all the way to Maryborough and around Maryborough, so I told Denise that I would drive to her place if she would drive the rest of the way (which she readily agreed to). Dad said he would drive me to Denise's, but that would have meant a 15 minute drive there and back for him and then again when he came to pick me up. I told him that I would try driving it on my own as long as he put the directions in our GPS (I love our GPS :-) I was a little bit nervous about driving on my own, so I said a quick prayer and then I was okay. On the way back from Denise's, I missed a turn, but it wasn't my fault as the GPS told me to turn after the actual turn (it thinks this street goes all the way through for some reason even though it doesn't), so I did have to do a U-turn, but I made it home safely and I was pleased about doing it on my own (well, sort of since my GPS friend was with me - I wonder if I should name the GPS like some of my other friends have done. :-)
I really enjoyed the talks given in Sacrament meeting today - the theme was about The Word of Wisdom. It's interesting to see some people's take on things. I have thought of The Word of Wisdom more as a list of DON'Ts rather than a list of DOs, but today I began to think of it in a different way. It's interesting how you can know something and hear something for years and then somehow come to look at it differently depending on the people talking about it or the place you are in at the time. Anyway, today as the speakers were talking (and I was listening :-) something came to my mind about how since The Word of Wisdom is a commandment, I should be following it more diligently. It's easy to follow the DON'Ts (like no alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea, drugs), but I was thinking today about how it's not so easy to follow the DOs (like eating meat sparingly, early to bed and early to rise). I also think that there are some things which are not talked about, but which we can take from what is being said in this scripture should rarely be taken (eg: junk food) since the whole idea of this section is to take things into your body which are healthy and leave out of your body things which are not. Even though I have read the promises to us if we follow the things spoken of in the Word Of Wisdom, they really touched my heart today: shall receive health in their navel and marrow to their bones; And shall find wisdom and great treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures; And shall run and not be weary, and shall walk and not faint. It's interesting how sometimes, you have someone speak at church and you really find it speaking to you - that's how I felt today. I want to do some more reading and pondering about this and I will write more about it later after I have done this.
Dad had my phone in his pocket at church today and it started ringing during Sacrament meeting - oops. :-) Dad said he always turns both phones off, but he forgot for some reason today. After Sacrament meeting, he checked the message and it was from my teacher friend, Bronwyn. I called her back and she said that she wanted to know if I was working tomorrow and Tuesday. I told her that I had already been asked by Pialba to teach on Monday and Tuesday. It turns out that she was calling for Kelli (a new grade two teacher at Kawungan) who's mother-in-law had been flown to Brisbane by helicopter for a medical emergency and so Kelli needed someone to cover for her. Bronwyn told her she would take care of it. I was disappointed that I couldn't do it - it would have been great teaching grade two and doing it beside Bronwyn. Bronwyn said that if Kelli needed someone for Wednesday and Thursday, would I be available and I said 'yes', so we'll see what happens. It doesn't rain, but it pours (with supply teaching jobs), eh? :-)
Dad and I are both sitting outside on our patio furniture while I am writing this. The weather is gorgeous: blue sky with a few clouds, warm (about 26C) and so peaceful out here. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is playing on the CD player - such sweet and soothing music. Life is good - nay, life is GREAT! :-)
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