I got a call yesterday to go in for Fiona again - what a nice way to wake up - getting to teach a lovely class and not feeling like I'm really earning my money! :-) I had a really nice time in Fiona's class - she had sorted another lovely day for me as well. I told the kids that if they worked hard, I would take them out for some ball games. They were really excited and worked really well - and we did go out for the ball games. Little did they know that Fiona had put it on the day plan - they just thought I was being nice. :-) At the end of the day, I was thinking how much I would love to be the teacher of that class on a full-time basis. There was a prac student (student teacher) with us yesterday (she's with Luise for 3 weeks) and we were talking. I was telling her how difficult it is to get a job in Hervey Bay - I didn't think it was going to be this difficult to get work - but, at least I am getting some days.
Dad spent yesterday doing census stuff again. He finished checking out his seventh and final area of his census district. It took him all afternoon to input the info into the computer. Then, he had to organize all the info he received about the people applying to be census collectors and put that onto a sheet so that he could set up his interviews.
We spent the evening at the Family History Centre last night. I decided to continue working on my Grandpa Terry's line - and somehow I found my way into a Terry family tree. It had my great grandfather and great grandmother on it although it had a different date of birth for my great grandmother. I was so excited to find the info - but, I forgot to write down the way I got to it - so today, when I went into library genealogy centre, I tried to find the family tree again and couldn't find it. I was so frustrated - I figured out how I found the way to do it, but not the route to get to the way I did it. That makes no sense at all, I know, but it's hard to explain. Anyway, I am going to try and find it again next time I get to work on it. I did find out info about my great grandfather's trip to Canada from England. I found out where he was living when he left England in 1928 and also where he was going to once he landed in Quebec. It's neat finding out information about my ancestors! :-)
I was very pleased NOT to get a call to supply teach today. I like not working on Thursday as I like to do 'Meals on Wheels'. Fortunately, we also didn't get a call from Avis to say she didn't need us. So, off we went at 10am to drive to the MOW building. We got route 4 today which I was happy about as our Bishop and his wife, Diana, live on this route. Diana really hurt her leg and shoulder last week, so bad that she wasn't even able to come to church last week. Half way through the route, we stopped at their house and had a short chat with her - I just wanted to see how she was doing. Dad and I get along with the Bishop and Diana really well - we want to invite them over to dinner really soon. At one of our stops near the end of our route, one of our clients had some cute kittens running around his place. There was a ginger one who was soooo adorable. The man could see that I was so taken with this little kitten - he asked me if I would like to take the kitten home - I would have loved to, but of course, Dad said 'no'! :-( I know that it makes sense since, when we come back to Canada, we come for so long and it would be hard to find someone to come over and feed a pet for us for such a long time, but the kitten was so cute, it was hard to leave it behind. :-(
I did a load of laundry when we got home from MOW and put it out on the line. I checked it when we got back from the library and I told Dad it needed another hour or so. About half an hour later, the 'air conditioning' turned on. :-) What I mean by that, is that it started to pour rain - on our tin roof, it sounds just like air conditioning. I ran to the back door to see if I could save the laundry, but it was too late. So, now, it's staying out overnight and hopefully by tomorrow afternoon, it will be dry. It's so strange here with regards to rain - it had been raining overnight and that's why I didn't do the laundry before we left for MOW. While we were out on the route, the skies cleared up and the sun came out and it was lovely. In the middle of our route, we had a very short, very light shower of rain. Near the end of our route, there was another shower. Then, by the time we got home, it was beautiful out again. So, out went the laundry, and then, just as if on cue, down pours the rain again (this time it was truly raining in strength, but not in length). It's what happens when it rains in HB - it rarely rains for any length of time - just many short showers. At least it was 24C today. :-)
Tonight at SES, they did a maps, compass and GPS navigation exercise. They were divided up into teams of three and given a map with a starting reference (they had to figure out from the reference where the starting point was). From there, they were given several bearings and distances to follow and had to write down what they found at each of the endpoints. When they got back, the instructor cross-checked each group's findings with his. The pacer in Dad's group underestimated his paces, so the distances were too long. Dad's group missed their marks, but because it was a circuit (they went in a circle), they ended up in the right place in the end. Dad's group decided that they need to double check their paces when they are going to do an exercise like this.
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