Although I have been on school holidays, it's been a very busy week. I have already posted about the first half of the week on my last post, so this one is from Thursday. I spent about four hours on Thursday at Kawungan school. My friend, Sandy, who teaches grade two and has the classroom next to me, was going into the school and she had the code to turn off the alarm on our little block. Sandy and I get along really well, so it was fun as well as productive getting our plans sorted and picking up supplies so that I could get some things ready at home this coming week. It felt really good to be able to get so much done - I really like being as prepared as possible ahead of time.
Friday was another day of doctor's appointments. The first one was an ultrasound and yes, having to hold a litre of water for over an hour is not a fun time. :-) The doctor was really nice and chatted while he did the ultrasound. I was never so happy to get to the bathroom afterwards, though. :-) After a quick trip to the chapel to open up the Family History Centre, we went to my second doctor's appointment which was a skin check - and it was exactly what I thought it was - the doctor checked over every inch of my body for moles - every now and then he used what looked like a jeweller's spyglass to look at something closely. He said there was nothing for him to be concerned about which I was really happy about.
Whenever this doctor has to do something where the patient has to undress, he has a nurse come into the room. The one on Friday was the same one who had come in when I had my pap smear last Monday and so she and I chatted while the doctor was checking me out. I asked her why she was there and she said that she is usually typing up whatever the doctor is concerned about re: the skin check, but she didn't have to do anything with me (she did type up one thing at the end when I told the doctor that Dr. Nixon in Canada had taken care of one mole, so the doctor here wants to keep an eye on it). I think it's also protects the doctor from anyone saying that something inappropriate happened, but of course, they didn't mention that.
Yesterday, we spent the day helping the Gilbert's move - since the Gilbert's are not residents of Australia and have a South African driver's license, they have had difficulty renting vehicles here in Australia for some reason. So, they asked Dad if he would rent the truck and drive it from their present house to their new house. I spent most of the time helping Haidi clean out their garage - they had a lot of boxes in there and I managed to help Haidi 'throw out' a lot of stuff - she was even telling others how good I was at helping her to cull things. :-) I told her that Jennifer was the queen of culling and that I had learned a lot when we had to decide what to bring and what not to bring to Australia.
Today Dad and I had to give a talk in Sacrament meeting. My talk was on how we can always have the spirit to be with us and Dad's was on faith. Both talks went really well - we had both practised them a number of times so that we were able to look up a lot of the time as we gave the talks. Dad and I were both told by a number of people how much they enjoyed our talks. I told them that I was very grateful that we have lds.org to go to on the net to get copies of talks from the church magazines because that's where I go to to get a lot of what I talk about in my sacrament meeting talks. I got very emotional when giving my talk - the spirit really touched me and I love that feeling. :-)
Dad and I are going to the temple this week - I am so excited - we haven't been able to go to the Brisbane temple since we have arrived here. I was told today that it is a beautiful temple (aren't they all? :-) We are planning on borrowing our friends' tent trailer and staying at a 'Big 4' campground which sounds and looks a lot like the KOA campgrounds over there. It will be nice to get away, relax and spend some time in the Temple. :-)
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