I have been so busy with teaching and so tired from teaching all day - that's why I haven't written until now. I love being back in teaching mode - doing all the planning is exciting to me - I definitely am meant to be a teacher - it's totally in my blood. :-) I am teaching a grade two class and there are 21 kids in the class. There are two little monkeys, but the rest are quite good. There are more girls than boys which suits me well - having said that, there are some sweet boys and some annoying girls in the class. :-) There are so many things that the government is telling us to teach now (explicit lessons have been given for language and math), that I feel that there is so little of "ME" in my program. This is nice for me right now with doing a contract position for just four weeks, but I am not sure I would be a fan of it if I was permanent/full-time. Teaching is taking up pretty much all my time. I get to school around 7:30am and am usually there until between 4:30pm and 5pm each day. After dinner, I usually spend between 1 1/2 and 2 hours doing more school work. It's a lot of work and it's tiring, but I wouldn't give it up for anything. :-) Other than school work, the other thing that keeps me busy is church - on Sunday, I typed up the Sacrament Meeting Presentation which the Primary children will put on in October. We usually have 11 children in Primary, but two of them (both of who can read and know the songs) are leaving for England before the presentation - so, we are really going to find it hard, I think, to make it work, but we are going to try. We are going to have a run-through on Sunday to see how the children cope with what I have prepared for them to say and then make a decision on the final draft of the presentation.
Now for Dad - he has some good news - we think. :-) He is still waiting for a phone call to 'seal the deal', but he feels very hopeful - and very excited. He drove down to Brisbane this morning (3 1/2 hours) to have an interview with a guy who owns a company which teaches aircraft technical training. Harry (the owner of the company) and his son interviewed Dad (for 1 1/2 hours) and Dad reckons the interview went really well. He said that they sounded like they wanted to hire him, but be thought that they might need some time to figure out when they could use him, when he could get some training he would need, and also to give him some time to get his ABN (Australian Business Number). Basically, he would be working as a contractor and so he would bill the company every time they use him to teach and then that means he would have to pay his own taxes. Dad has also been busy with church stuff - mostly getting his lessons together to teach on Sundays. He also has been busy working on things around the house and at the Family History Centre.
We both need a cruise to go on to get a rest.
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