Hello all!!! So, it is a lovely Saturday morning, and it actually feels like a Saturday for once. I got to sleep in and we are just relaxing, probably headed to Towoomba in a bit. Anyway, just a few minor updates for you. This week was a bit challenging, and not because my teaching was so difficult, but it feels like it is really coming to an end, and I realized that I am not sure if I am ready for that. This was my last week with my PE classes because next week both of my Co-ops are gone and my principal is gone so I am becoming the full time year 6 teacher with all of the classes- it should be interesting. I had to say goodbye to Greame yesterday and it was pretty sad, him and I got along so well and I gained so many ideas and knowledge from him. He is taking some of his long service leave starting next week so I will not see him again before I leave. Tanya will be back next Friday so I will have an opportunity to have one more day with her and then say my farewells. Honestly, since I have been here, beginning in second term I have felt more like one of the staff than a student teacher and have been treated as such. It was just such a great experience and really showed me what teaching is like- the best part is that I have found out just how much I love it. God certainly had a plan for sending me here.
Second thing is coolest.....gift.......ever. My class gave me a gift at the end of this week because both of my co-ops will be gone next week. They gave me an Akubra hat. So sweet. I am pretty sure my brother Ben will appreciate this more than most, but this hat is great, I feel like a true country Australian now, haha. Oh and they gave me a drink hugger that has Kingaroy on it. I love my class:) I am going to miss those kids.
I will leave you with just a little story from my prep class. We were playing a game called Abracadabra- best game ever if you want a good chuckle, but I digress. I am the magician and I get to change them into different animals or whatever I want. So at the current moment the kids were supposed to be elephants; I was setting up some hoops and beanbags for the next game when one of the little girls (I have written about this one before) came up and started chatting to me. I just smiled at her and told her elephants are not supposed to talk. She then preceded to raise her arm up to her head and swing it around, like you would do if you were pretending to have a trunk, and then continued talking. Hahaha. I guess elephants really can talk. You learn something new every day :)
Cheers from down under, I hope all is well stateside.
10 days left in Australia.
Isaiah 55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thought, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts"
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