What a difference a couple of days make! I was joking around with Dad a couple of days ago saying that I was going to get the missionaries to take a pic of us on Sunday (short sleeves and sandals) with a caption that said 'winter in Australia'. :-) I guess I shouldn't joke around about that - cuz today the high was 19C and tomorrow it will be 17C - eeeeeek!!! I even had to put my sweater on when I went outside today - man, what is the world coming to when you have to wear a sweater in winter! :-)
Yesterday, I had a really good day teaching at Kawungan - Fiona's grade one class again, with no 'challenge child' in attendance - it doesn't get much better than that for supply teaching. After having such a nice day with the kids, I said 'good-bye' to the grade one teachers and the office staff. I did tell them that I hoped to be back next year if there was a position available. I thought about taking today off school since I am already booked for tomorrow and then I start full-time next week. I was still thinking about it when I got a call yesterday afternoon asking me if I would be available to supply teach in a grade one class at Torquay - I thought, why not, a nice grade one class. Well, they were the class from H - E - Double Hockeysticks!!! I spoke to the behaviour support teacher who told me that seven of them have issues and she was so right. Two of them were major issues and the other five were enough of an issue that it was hard to get anything done. Let me tell you, when I got to the school and I saw two teachers who asked me who I was supplying for and they said 'good luck', I should have turned and run the other way. This is one day when I REALLY earned my money! And I would never go back to that class - no wonder the teacher has taken two days off. And to boot, she didn't even leave a plan for me - thank goodness the teacher next door, who was also off, had left a really good plan and so I photocopied it and carried it out. Then, today I spoke with the teacher who I am supplying for tomorrow and she said that I can do whatever I want for the day - she was keeping the photocopies for herself for Tuesday - greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat! Sheesh! I have no idea what I will do, but there is a teacher's aide for almost all day, so I am sure she will help me out. I saw a couple of girls who will be in my class starting on Tuesday and they seemed really happy about me teaching them. Yesterday, after school, I met with Yvonne, the teacher who I am replacing for the rest of the year, and we went over her basic day to day plan. It was a good meeting and I think that I am ready for the first day next week. Chantelle and I met today after school and went over next week as well - I feel much better about starting up a new class now.
Dad and I went to the Family History Centre last night and met up with Rob and Rosalea there. I was hoping to get some more work done as I have received some emails from Uncle Rick with some more info about Grandpa Terry's family. I picked up the wrong bag, though, so I didn't have my family history bag with me. I was able to access Uncle Rick's email there and he had sent me a link about a UK census with Grandpa's grandfather on it, but when I tried to find the same info online, I couldn't find it. That was frustrating so I emailed Uncle Rick asking him how he found it - waiting for him to get back to me about it.
Dad has been working so hard around the house these past two days - he is in a lull with the census stuff right now and so he's been trying to get caught up with stuff around the house - inside and out. Since I have been working almost every day for three weeks, it's been great to come home and have the house clean inside and the outside taken care of, too. I really am appreciative of Dad's efforts since I am so tired by the time I get home.
At SES tonight, Dad did a review of tying down tarps and also a review of knots. Dad's group was very small tonight (only 4 of them) as everyone else was off doing different training. They also had to clean out four of their trailers. Sand from sand bags had spilled into the trailers and so they had to sweep out the sand and then reload the trailers with tarp kits, ropes, etc. (emergency kits to take out to clean up the damage after storms).
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