International Day

Hello everyone!

Firstly - HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY PA!!!!! Love you so much and I'm so sorry I'm not there to give you a big hug and kiss and tell you I love you in person. Have a wonderful day and I'll ring at some point throughout the day :)

What a great day I've had :) 

First of all last night I had 13 of the 14 people who said they would come turn up to my flat viewing - yay! Some lovely ones, some strange ones, and it looks as if a really lovely Scottish girl called Maria is going to take my room. She's paying me the deposit and half a month rent either tonight or Monday - woo! We got along really well and she met my housemates and they liked her too. It was 2.5 solid hours of meeting people though. I was really lucky, everyone seemed to turn up one after the other and it worked out really well! It meant I was on my feet all day and losing my voice by the end though. 

Today at school was so much fun! First of all I made the one hour journey to school via foot and train wearing my dirndl from Oktoberfest (my dress). It was international dress up day so I decided I should get my money's worth and wear it. Lots of funny looks on the phone! I had to wake Mark up to help me zip it up hahaha. 

I was all over the place again. This morning I helped in year 6. Basically the first two hours today were spent with all the classes swapping around having a "passport" stamped by different teachers and doing an activity associated with a different country in each class. I spent the first half in 'New Zealand' and then walked next door to 'Sri Lanka'. I also kept my own passport as an artefact for my teaching portfolio. In Sri Lanka (year 4 foxes), it was Alisha's class from last year doing the activity. They all started screaming and it turned out there was a huge bumble bee in the room. My Australian reflexes kicked in. I grabbed a container and paper and trapped it, walked downstairs and set it free. The kids and teacher were in awe when I got upstairs "you handled that so swiftly!"  Haha. Plenty of experience with Huntsmen spiders at home!! 

Something else funny happened here. The five cheeky ones from yesterday gave me the letters their teacher had made them write. They were so cute, just a shame they were so cheeky in the first place! But they were lovely letters :)

Next up I was in year 1. The teacher had been crazy busy and hadn't really left resources ready so I was running around like a headless chicken dealing with 28 5 year olds and getting them what they needed. They were wonderful though and it went well :)

At the end of lunch I went out and literally today I counted about 30 kids that asked if I was either Cinderella, Goldie Locks, Dorothy or Gretel. But explaining what a dirndl is taught them something I suppose!!!

This afternoon I had year 5P who I've not had since the one lesson I taught them last year. They were happy as we did art and they did a great job. Then we had assembly to announce head boy and girl. The boy who got it looked like he was going to cry haha. Aw!

Now I'm on the train home. I'm taking tmro off as this cold is getting worse and applications for more jobs close in the next couple of days. I won't get them in on time if I don't do them tmro and I need a sleep in to try and get rid of this cough. It's so bad :(

Tonight Jamie and I are going out for dinner at a local pub to celebrate pa's birthday and then he's going to help me practice for my interview. I'm a bit nervous but I'll be ok! At least it's online and I don't have the whole driving there getting nervous thing etc. It's at 8.30am Melbourne time, please send positive vibes!!

Love to all

Claire

Xoxox