Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Wow, working full-time sure is tiring, but I guess it's preparing me for what I am in for during the next six months.  Yesterday, I was in Rachael's class again - it was like the kids had forgotten all about their listening skills after the weekend and the girls were more annoying than usual.  Yep, I said it - the GIRLS were the most annoying.  I managed to get done almost everything that Rachael had asked me which was good - it made her feel less stressed to have so much testing completed.  Luise gave me a beautiful bouquet of flowers to say thankyou for all the volunteering I have done in her class.  The flowers are so lovely and it was such a nice thing for her to do for me.  I have attached a photo of the flowers at the bottom of this blog.  The grade one team are starting to make me feel like one of them - just in time for me to leave. :-)

Today I worked for Fiona (grade one teacher) and I was happy to get the call this morning to supply in that class - she has 22 beautiful children and one challenge child who isn't too too bad for me.  Although, with the other 22 being so lovely, the one challenge child really stands out.  I had a good day with this class and it was nice to be asked to go in there again tomorrow (and the challenge child is going on holidays tomorrow - is it wrong for me to say 'yippee' :-)  I brought in three mud cakes today - that sounds yucky, but it's basically a moist chocolate cake with chocolate icing to die for - they are so yummy.  I brought in one for the office staff, one for the grade one team and one for the grade two team - I just wanted to say thank you to them all for making me feel like part of their school family.  It's been great working at Kawungan and I have told Leanne (the Deputy Principal) to keep me in mind for next year if she needs a teacher.  A couple of the teachers said we need to get together for 'coffee' and I was pleased about that.

Dad spent yesterday morning at the Family History Centre - he went in to help Denise (the family history director) with some computer stuff.  He ended up helping two patrons with their family history as well (you're never off when you are at the FHC. :-)  He came home and spent the rest of the day doing 'househusband' stuff - I love coming home to a clean house and clean laundry hanging in my closet. :-) 

After school yesterday, we went down to the beach.  We are determined to get back on an exercise schedule and so we drove straight from school to the beach and took a fast walk along it for about half an hour.  It sure is a nice way to get our exercise. :-)  After supper, we drove over to a store called 'Harvey Norman's' and bought a freezer.  Dad's been wanting to get one for ages - and they had a really good sale on.  We have been wanting to buy more food which is on sale, but we haven't had the room in the fridge freezer.  We talked with a lady at the store  and she gave us some info about the different freezers.  Originally we were going to buy a 164L freezer, but the more Dad looked at that one and the 216L one, the more he thought buying the bigger one was a better idea.  As you know, when it comes to electrical/electronic stuff, I bow to Dad's opinion. :-)  Dad went over to our friend, Rob's house today and borrowed his trailer - then he drove over to the store and  picked up the freezer.  It's sitting in our garage - Dad washed it out and plugged it in.  We had to let it cool down for a couple of hours before we put anything in it.  We are now looking forward to buying more specials and building up a little freezer food storage.

Dad made the BEST roast beef tonight - we had the missionaries over and one of them wanted a roast (I thought he meant roast beef - turns out he meant roast chicken - I will have to ask my friends at church/school if that is a typical Aussie meaning for roast :-)  Anyway, Dad put the roast in a slow cooker and cooked it for eight hours.  When he took it out and carved it, it just fell apart - it was sooooooo tender and soooooooooo delicious!  The missionaries don't get meals like this too often, I'm thinking - they took a huge portion to start with and then both went back for seconds!  Poor dad only has a measly portion for his lunch tomorrow.  I told Dad that next time, he should take some off the plate first before he serves it up. :-)