A canuck in Oz: March 2007

3 weeks down, 1 to go

Well, 3 weeks of prac finished and only 1 more to go, and this week is a short week. We have Friday off.
The past three weeks have been crazy. Very busy but also very rewarding. I really do love teaching. This incoming week i am in charge of everything. Planning and teaching the whole week and unit of Easter. I have it all figured out, it is just now a matter of making up the plans. On Friday when i went into class, one of the little boys came up and gave me a picture he had drawn and on it, it says, you are the nicest teacher ive ever met. Which was surprising because he isn't one of the best kids in the class, meaning i am always calling on him to be quite and pay attention. But hey i guess that proves you just never know what is going on in someones head.
For the past two weekends, I have made sure that I have done something fun. That way i don't feel like it is always about school....i am suppose to be enjoying myself also right!!
Last weekend I went to the Symbio Wildlife Gardens. It was amazing we got to feed Kangaroo's and pet a Koala. We also got to see some interesting animals, I think i had seem all of them before, but it was nice to see them again!! As for this weekend, we were suppose to go to the Nan Tien Temple. It is the largest temple in the Southern Hemisphere. But we just had SO much fun on Friday night, that we didn't make it there in the am. As for Friday night, it was Aimee's birthday so we had a BBQ over at Christy and Matt's place first and then headed to the pub around 10:30. At that point we met up with the usual Canadian Gang....drank a little more took some crazy pictures. We ended up down at the beach. We were just going to sit around and chat, but then Tim and I decided it was time to go in. So we waded around in shallow waters for a while. Then Devon and lindsay decided to join so we all ended up fully in the water. The boys went in, in their boxers, while Lindsay and I went in fully clothed!! It was right FUN!! Which just proves that teachers can have fun.....I wonder how many teacher's are closet alcoholics....Enjoy the pics.