Wow, I am so tired of being under the weather! I am so not used to this and I'm not a good sickie! :-)Besides having a stuffed nose, I now have back pains and stomach pains. I've been having trouble sleeping as well with the back pain. It makes me very appreciative of the normally good health I enjoy and I have told myself that I need to be more thankful for good health (when I get better). Yesterday, I rested in the morning and then headed over to a friend's house to help her clean her house as she is moving to Melbourne to get married. Two other friends met us there, so it didn't take us too long to get the house mostly in order. I was quite worn out by the time I got back from the cleaning, and so I spent the evening relaxing in my chair watching a movie we had rented from the library.
Dad spent the day doing census stuff again. He had to read through his training information so that he could make sure he was ready to do the training of his collectors which will take place a week Friday. He's getting a bit anxious at how much he has to do in the time he has to do it in, but I keep telling him that things will be fine - he works hard and wants to make sure that he has all his i's dotted and t's crossed.
Today, I had a six hour meeting with Chantelle at our house. She came over so that we could plan out our term three. It will be ten weeks long - doesn't sound too long, so I am sure I will be counting down the weeks as we go along. :-) We were able to do a rough plan of our literacy units, math units and theme units. We came up with a lot of ideas together and I think we have a good plan set out. We still have to make it a bit more specific in some areas, but it's a place to start. We won't start this plan until the second week for the most part. The kids don't start until the Tuesday and we will need time to get things photocopied, etc. I also want to buy some baskets like I used to have in Canada. Because I want to do centres (they call them 'rotations' here), I will need a basket for each group which means 15 boxes: 5 for language, 5 for math and 5 for the theme. It was actually a little bit exciting doing all the planning and I hope that things will pick up in the classroom and be a more positive experience.
Dad spent his day mostly out of the house - he has to contact people at about 12 establishments who he will train to be census collectors at these establishments. The reason Dad's collectors won't be doing this at these places is because people come and go often from these places - they are short-term accomodation like hotels, backpacker resorts, etc. He also has a nursing home in his area which has to be done by the people hired at the nursing home due to privacy issues. Dad was able to visit four of these places today and will be trying to get out and see the rest some time this week.
We had the missionaries over for dinner tonight - even though I wasn't feeling well (they had a delicious honey/mustard chicken meal and I ate mashed potatoes with ketchup and chicken noodle soup), we did manage to get in two games of cribbage. :-) We spent the rest of the evening watching tv - boy, our lives are getting pretty boring, eh? :-)
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