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Some of our Perth trip under the cut!
So we went to Australia, me, my Principal, and two students. This is the soil north of Perth...
I saw some great plants,
This was Perth on one of our first mornings
Some Aussie-style pics - we went to a monastic 'town', the only one in Australia, New Norcia.
The little town was very picturesque
Our conference had a strong Aboriginal input, rather the same as we would with Maori welcomes etc. It was good. I love it.
Girls danced first, then boys
Aborigine handing over to Maori
We had the cutest didgeridoo player
That'll do for a start! And now I am officially on holiday. So many of the teachers have been stressed to the max this past fortnight and it's great to be on a break.
The dad of a senior girl passed away unexpectedly while she was away on a geography trip in Samoa, and that has been really sad. We'll have to go to the funeral on Monday, I guess. The guy was younger than me. Yikes! I ran prayers yesterday at the end of the school day and the girls were great, all coming into the gym and sitting really quietly around some candles. There were quite a few tears at the end, I think it just touched girls in ways we don't always expect, maybe because of their own grief about other things as well as the loss of nicole's dad.
I am so happy to be on holiday. So very very happy. It's like an enormous treat! I can breathe again.
Oh I nearly forgot. We had a real live progressive Jewish rabbi visit my Ethics class this week. He was great. Just came from Israel to live here and spoke beautifully with my class about death and l ife after death. It was a very good visit. I had practised with the girls the day before, to check their questioning skills, and I banned about three girls from asking questions without checking with a friend first. Then another girl blows it by asking, 'do NZ Jews get buried facing Mecca?' the whole class went nuts!!! The rabbi handled it well *g* he used to be a high school teacher!
Some of our Perth trip under the cut!
So we went to Australia, me, my Principal, and two students. This is the soil north of Perth...
I saw some great plants,
This was Perth on one of our first mornings
Some Aussie-style pics - we went to a monastic 'town', the only one in Australia, New Norcia.
The little town was very picturesque
Our conference had a strong Aboriginal input, rather the same as we would with Maori welcomes etc. It was good. I love it.
Girls danced first, then boys
Aborigine handing over to Maori
We had the cutest didgeridoo player
That'll do for a start! And now I am officially on holiday. So many of the teachers have been stressed to the max this past fortnight and it's great to be on a break.
The dad of a senior girl passed away unexpectedly while she was away on a geography trip in Samoa, and that has been really sad. We'll have to go to the funeral on Monday, I guess. The guy was younger than me. Yikes! I ran prayers yesterday at the end of the school day and the girls were great, all coming into the gym and sitting really quietly around some candles. There were quite a few tears at the end, I think it just touched girls in ways we don't always expect, maybe because of their own grief about other things as well as the loss of nicole's dad.
I am so happy to be on holiday. So very very happy. It's like an enormous treat! I can breathe again.
Oh I nearly forgot. We had a real live progressive Jewish rabbi visit my Ethics class this week. He was great. Just came from Israel to live here and spoke beautifully with my class about death and l ife after death. It was a very good visit. I had practised with the girls the day before, to check their questioning skills, and I banned about three girls from asking questions without checking with a friend first. Then another girl blows it by asking, 'do NZ Jews get buried facing Mecca?' the whole class went nuts!!! The rabbi handled it well *g* he used to be a high school teacher!
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Enjoy your break!!
Still, it's time to enjoy some stuff. I think... I might write! I have another free d/l offer at Smashwords for the month and people are racing through. I think I've 'sold' 66 books now LOL! Must be your rave review *g* *hugs Moth*
Glad people are still picking the book up - I must remember to send a review to an online zine (Wilde Oats) I occasionally review for. The GFF zine has folded - too few decent submissions recently to justify the amount of work involved. You should have had an email about it, asking if you want your story transferred to the archives on a new blog site when the website finally closes. But the woman dealing with the transfers doesn't seem very competent so if you don't hear anything let me know how you feel about that. I'm not transferring mine - I'd rather have control of them in case I want to re-submit anywhere some time - but that's just a personal decision and nothing to do with the blog itself.
I wrote a sequel to the story I wrote for that zine. It was good. Then I was halfway through a third one but it died!
I seem to have a lot of cat icons.
And shouldn't you be in bed????
I never thought of doing a real short story with it all. It could almost turn into a whole book in my head! I loved those guys!
Yeah, I don't wanna go to some other random blog at this stage.
I love all your cat icons. I can see a heap here all at once. I haven't made an icon for ever. An old friend used to make most of mine. I always seemed to have trouble with sizes and stuff!! It'd take me about seven tries to get it to 100x100 and readable!
-And shouldn't you be in bed????
Always... story of my life
You can click on something to get an automatic reminder of when it comes out. The reviews editor is a friend and I told him about the free download window so he got a copy and enjoyed it. Hopefully the review will get you a few more readers!
A list for you in return - stick it on the wall *g*
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2WHCuC/www.mobypicture.com/user/therealhuubkoch/view/9690239
And I love the list!!
Have a really good holiday and get lots of rest:)
And my classes are always lively, believe me. I don't know what I do - but they're always buzzing LOL!