Happy Australia Day!

Happy Australia day everyone! Was thinking about Australia today and what everyone is doing. Wondering what exciting events took place down camping at Richardsons. Hope everyone is behaving themselves and celebrating with a drink or 10. Last day before the weekend here. Nothing overly exciting going on at the moment.  The children's English is improving slowly. They are very good at colours and family now. Thinking about doing some proper sentence speaking practice which will go down a treat. The baby nursery class children are only 2and a half. They are very cute. Except of course they are babies and will cry at the drop of a hat. Today I read a book and was making animal noises. One boy started crying. The other kids loved it and was laughing. I try to include lots of songs in these lessons to make the classroom atmosphere nice. I am slowly starting to Learn names. Have managed to learn most names for 2 classes. Only about 4 more classes to learn!!! 

Tried some interesting fruit today they were sooo sour!! Bananas here are nice though. They are not grown on the island. I now have a fear of bats thanks to Richard. (other volunteer). We discussed rabies and now I am scared I will get attacked and die!! (hey we've got to die of something right?) hahaha. Hoping to go for a picnic on Saturday with teachers from the school but will have to do some sweet talking. Otherwise, will just have a quiet weekend. Though something always seems to be happening here. 

We have been taking walks around the island. There is always people about (my preschool kids always chirping or waving and saying hello). Everyone loves to stare, hopefully after a few more laps we will not get as many stares. I mean, a white girl on this island is strange! It takes literally 1 minute to walk from one end of the island to the next. But every now and then I find somewhere which I have not walked before. Watched the kids play sports at school today. It was great that everyone was playing and joining in, don't really think this would happen from k-12 in tas. 

Last night it was parent working bee. All the mothers came along and stripped bark off these skinny trees ready to make a playground shelter. They all had knifes and everyone helped. It was random and very traditional. Something I love about this place. Still no photos sorry, hopefully soon I will be able to upload some!If you do not hear from me, it means I have been bitten by a bat and died of rabies.... haha probably shouldn't joke about that!!