I was teaching at Kawungan yesterday in with the grade twos. They are doing what they call 'validation' which is basically listening to the kids read and validating that they are reading at the level which you already know in your head that they are reading. They have to do so much of this validating here - the admin actually check up on them which would drive me crazy. I used to know where the kids were because I listened to them read all the time - I didn't need to do it formally. So, I was in Jane's class in the morning and Kelli's class in the afternoon. Both classes were fairly easy to teach, but Kelli's class really needed a lot of reminding of what they should be doing. I was telling Bronwyn about it and she said that Kelli is 'very soft' (not firm enough) with her class and that she (Bronwyn) was often having to speak to the children. I am sure that the children would have been happy to see Kelli back the next day after having had to listen to me nag and nag and nag at them. :-)
Dad spent the day doing the rest of his interviews. They went really well and Dad is glad that they are all finally over and that he can now work on who he will recommend for the collector positions.
When I woke up this morning, the sky was blue and the first thing I thought of was 'what a beautiful day' and the second thing I thought of was 'too bad I don't have any laundry to do - it's the perfect day for it'. That probably sounds really funny to you guys, but that's what I was thinking. I don't even think twice about hanging the laundry on the clothesline now - it's like it's become secondhand now. I'm still not as quick as those who have been doing it for ages, but I'm getting faster. :-)
Someone told me the other day that they couldn't believe that I was 53 - they thought I was around 40! I thanked them for that! :-) We decided that part of it was due to spending so many years in Canada where it's cold so much of the time. We were talking about how the sun really does a number on Aussie skins. I felt really good when they thought I was so much younger than I am. I also think it's got to do with good genes. (Thanks, Nana! :-)
Today, I worked again at Kawungan - Rachel (grade one) hurt her foot and thought she would be able to come back this week to teach, but after teaching on Monday, she found that her foot was killing her and so she decided to take off the rest of the week and asked me if I could teach her class all four days. I was booked in to do the grade twos on Thursday and Friday, but I traded with Terri who they were going to ask to cover Rachel's class - it made sense for me to stay with Rachel's class and for Terri to cover the grade twos (she is a part-time grade two teacher). Rachel's class is not too bad, but so many of them are not good listeners - I felt like just having them follow instructions (one after the other) - often there are a couple who don't listen, but in this class, there are a number of them.
Dad spent a bit of time today organizing all the information from the interviews. There was quite a lot of information to input. Then Dad had to rate each person based on a set list of criteria. His next step was to select his seven collectors and four reserve collectors. After inputting this information into the computer, he then had to mail these forms to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. He also attended a funeral of a woman who went to our church (she was older and quite ill, so it was a blessing for her to leave this world). He also went to a luncheon for those who volunteer with Meals on Wheels. They needed to have a training meeting and so they served lunch while they were doing the training. Dad sat with a guy named Barry who also volunteers for SES so that was nice (you know how shy Dad is). After having the missionaries over for dinner and driving them home, Dad spent an hour sorting out the Home Teaching lists for the High Priest group. He was a very busy boy today. :-)
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