I didn't get a call to supply teach again yesterday morning and I was very disappointed! I am beginning to get discouraged about this teaching situation. When we were looking into moving to Hervey Bay, I emailed a teacher here and she told me that there were tons of supply teaching opportunities - that was about four years ago and things sure have changed over the years. As I was saying a prayer this morning, I told Heavenly Father that I knew we were supposed to be in Hervey Bay, but that I really wanted to be teaching more and asked why this was all happening. I didn't get an answer, but I felt better just praying about it. :-) As I went through my day, I started feeling a bit more positive than I was in the morning. I had a good time being in Luise's class again today - I even got to take over for one lesson while Luise did some more reading running records - it felt good to be up in front of the class and then having the kids come to me when they were done. This is what it will be like in October - December when I take over Luise's class. She told me yesterday that she will be gone for eight weeks, so that's one more week than I was expecting, so I am very happy about that. I also handed out my card to all the grade one teachers in that block and I also went to the Prep (Kindergarten) classes and told them that I would love to supply teach for them. They were all pleased to know that and one even said that I might get more work than I wanted (I wish! :-)
Dad spent the day doing more Census work - he was able to finish up the fourth and fifth areas and now has to do a lot of inputting on the computer. It's taking up a lot of his time right now and he will be busy for at least the next two weeks between checking out the areas of his district and interviewing potential census collectors which he will start to do next week. I think he will be glad for a little bit less hectic times which will come in a bit. After the interviews, he has to do some more training on how to train the collectors and then has to do the actual training of them. Once that's done, he should have a bit of a rest until it's time to hand out the census forms.
Dad and I spent yesterday evening at the Family History Centre. Dad and another member, Alistair Gilbert, were the ones on call for Wednesday night. I worked on my Grandpa Terry's line again. I was trying to find out where my great great Grandma Evans (Mary Ann) and her two daughters, Mary Ann and Isabella (my great grandma) were living, but I couldn't find them in the 1901 census, so I don't know where they were at that time. Mary Ann (the mother) was a widow at this time, so she might have remarried, but I can't find Isabella either and she was not married as of yet. I think that I have found Isabella's birth record, but it doesn't tell me anything about her parents unless I order her birth certificate, so I think I will talk with the lady at the HB library genealogy centre about that on Saturday morning because apparently she can get these certificates for only $15. where they are usually almost twice that.
Today was an incredibly beautiful day and I was okay about not getting a call to supply teach today. I really like having Thursdays off because I like doing Meals on Wheels. However, we got a call this morning to say that we weren't needed for Meals on Wheels today - they have a couple who do it once a month and today was their day, so Avis called to say that we could have the day off, since Dad did a double run last week. It was a little bit disappointing because I really do like doing this service, but it was such a beautiful day that we didn't have trouble filling in our time. We started off our morning doing some errands - the usual running around (and I bought two more skirts that Miller's had on sale - Dad reminded me that I had said that I had enough new clothes, so I bought the skirts in one size smaller than I am at the moment - I know that I will be able to get into that size by the summer and the price was too good to pass up). :-) Then, we found a phone booth and called Nana - I haven't talked with Nana in a while and hadn't heard from her in a while, so I wanted to check in and see how she and Warren were doing. Would you believe that we talked for 1 1/2 hours (okay, you smarty pants girls - I can hear you saying that that would be NO problem for Nana and me :-) It was great to talk with Nana and get caught up on how they are doing (both doing pretty well) and to also get caught up on what Uncle Ken, Uncle Baden, Michael and Jamie are doing. Michael is now getting married in August, but it will be a small wedding with just very close family (eg: Uncle Baden, Nana and Warren and of course, Uncle Kenny, from our family).
After lunch, Dad and I went for a walk along the beach - it was one of those 'typical' Hervey Bay days - blue cloudless sky, warm temperature and nice breeze. We decided to walk along a different part of the beach (the western part) and Dad really liked it. The beach consisted of sand and rocks - we checked out the rock pools (the water was just starting to come in to high tide time), but we couldn't see any creatures which might have been left behind. After going along the beach for a while, we walked back to the car and drove down a bit to a different part of the beach. I asked Dad if we could first walk along the street to have a sticky beak in a few stores. We came across a souvenir store and I saw some t-shirts (kids, of course :-) and I saw one that was PERFECT for Benjamin so I just HAD to buy it. Of course, that also meant that I had to find one for each of the other boys. :-) I will give them to the boys for their birthdays when we get back to Canada. We had another short walk along the beach to get back to the car and then spent some time laying on our chaise loungers in the backyard when we got home from the beach. What a lovely way to spend the day!
At SES tonight, the group learned how to winch (pull) a four wheel drive out of a bog or from being stuck in the sand. They learned several different techniques and approaches which can be used to get a vehicle unstuck. After learning these techniques, the group did a hands-on exercise where they actually winched their SES jeep across the SES parking lot with the wheels of the jeep not turning. Dad thought it was a very practical exercise to do as there are lots of four wheel drive vehicles in HB and lots of places where people can get themselves stuck.
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