We've actually had a nice relaxing three days - minus the work. :-) I actually had a good on Friday with the kids at school. I wonder if, after ten weeks, things are looking up. I think that I will just enjoy the next two weeks if they are anything like this past week, and then see how things will be after the holidays. I am sure that I will be having to retrain them after the holidays again - hopefully, it will not take me too long to do that. Dad spent Friday working hard on census stuff - he is working as many hours as he can on it so that he can finish up asap. He feels really happy that the end is in sight, although he wishes that some of his collectors had been a little more careful.
We were planning on sleeping in yesterday morning - then, we got a phone call at 6am - of course, we wondered who could be calling that early - we were both fast asleep. Dad got up wearily and answered the phone. It was a friend from church - Dad still hadn't clicked - Christine said who it was and then said they were at our front door. Finally, Dad clued in - they were dropping their dog off at our place for two weeks. We knew they were coming on Saturday, but had no idea they were coming that early - people in Hervey Bay have no idea about sleeping in on Saturdays. :-) Josie, the dog, has been easy to take care of - she mostly just lays in her bed. She has whined a couple of times, but only when I first come out after she hasn't seen us in a while. If I give her a little pat, she settles right down.
We decided to take it easy once we got Josie settled - we really like Saturdays as they are often our only relaxing days. It's great to just hang around the house doing nothing. :-) We went to the library later on and then to a school fete (carnival) at Kawungan. We had seen a sign in town saying it was on and I told Dad I would like to go to see all my teacher friends back there and to support the school at the same time. It was great talking to many of my friends there - some of them even saw me before I saw them and came over to say 'hi'. I had a long talk with Bronwyn and it was really nice to see her again. I told her that Chantelle wants to get together with her and me again and so we are going to set that up one day soon. I made sure to say 'hi' to the VP, too - not only to say 'hi', but to make an appearance just in case they have a teacher spot for next year. :-)
We spent the rest of the day doing school stuff and census stuff. I am working on a plan for a social studies unit for next term which begins after the holidays. We are going to be doing a unit on 'Community Helpers' - I am having to find the stuff on the net - if I was in Canada, I could just go to 'Scholar's Choice' and get a book on it. :-) I have also redone my class schedule - again - to make sure that I can get in enough time in language and math so that the students are ready for grade one. I actually hate doing this because it's against what I believe in (which is that kindergarten should be play-based - I should not be teaching them to read), but I have to do it and so I thought that I had better really focus on making sure that as many kids know the basics as I can help them learn. I am going to have to provide activities for those children who have already completed the kindergarten curriculum as outlined in our goals - they will be having to work independently as I work with those who are having difficulty. I still have two boys (both sweet) who haven't been able to learn to recognize their numbers to 10 (the goal is that they should be able to learn to recognize numbers to 20).
Today, at church, I was doing triple duty - neither of my counsellors were able to make it today, so it was just me and my secretary, Denise taking care of Primary. We only had seven children there today, so it was pretty easy to manage. We are still with only one teacher, but there is hope - today the bishopric member in charge of Primary said he would be calling a new teacher (for the Sunbeams) soon. The missionaries told us today that they wouldn't be here in HB for dinner on Wednesday as they would be in Bundaberg - then later, Elder Johnson (from Calgary) came up to me and asked if they could come to dinner on Friday instead. I told them that we were having guests for dinner, but then thought, why not add two more. Elder Johnson said he was really glad because they were thinking of coming back early from Bundaberg just so that they could have dinner with us. How sweet is that! :-)
As soon as we got home from church, Dad set up the computer so that we could Skype with Grandma Martin. She wasn't home, but we did get to talk with Jackie and Scott. We asked how things were going and they said that Grandma and Tricia were over at the hospital with Grandpa. Jackie had had the night shift (from 11pm - 7am) and said that Grandpa had been a bit out of it. She said that Grandpa seemed to be rambling about where he was and it almost seemed like he was going between this world and the next world with some of the things he was saying. Dad will Skype with them tomorrow and see if he can talk with Grandma and get her opinion as to how Grandpa is doing.
Dad and I were both tired today, so after church we had a lovely long nap - the alarm went off after two hours, but neither of us was ready to get up - Dad hit the snooze button four times before we actually got out of bed. :-) Even though Sundays are very busy during the morning, they are relaxing afterwards. :-)
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