Last Farewell

On Saturday Trevor and Colleen (the bus driver and his wife) had us over for a last farewell BBQ at their house. We haven’t seen them for a long time. I think the last time was the reception ceremony but the time before that was the two-week trip that they took us on. Anyways they picked us up at Newport Apartments on the greyhound bus at 1:00 p.m. and drove us to their house. We had a good time with music and food and before we knew it, the sun had gone down already. We had a huge bonfire going on throughout the whole night. They have a huge forest behind their house so in essence they have an unlimited supply of firewood. We also saw a kangaroo hopping in their backyard at nighttime so that was pretty cool.

On Sunday the Chancellor year 6 team went out to lunch at the Kawana Pub for lunch with the year 6 teachers as a last farewell. The only problem was that three of the teachers were unable to attend so it was only two teachers and four of the New York teachers. The place was extremely nice and Paul (a year 6 teacher) picked us up from Newport Apartments and drove us there and back. He is so nice to us as he usually drives us home from school almost everyday and we all appreciate this because he saves us approximately twenty dollars going home for the week. Unfortunately he can’t pick us up in the morning, and we wouldn’t want him to because he gets to school at 5:30 in the morning, which is absolutely absurd! The lunch was really nice and it was packed! You would never believe that September 2^nd is Father’s Day here in Australia! Many people were out celebrating with their families for Father’s Day. This is one of the main reasons that many of the year 6 teachers couldn’t attend this lunch. One of my students said he saw us there and was sitting behind us diagonally and I has asked him why he didn't say hello to us and his response to me was, "I don't know it was weird seeing you outside of school." It really was funny that he saw all of the preservice teachers and regular teachers outside of school and uniform.