Last Day of Term 2

My last day of the term was Friday June 27th, so I decided to celebrate Canada Day with my students.  My colleague Cath and I combined our two classes and she had a competition as to who could draw the best Canada Flag ... she made me draw an Australian flag!  From the Smart board, I showed them the words to "Good Old Hockey Game", by Stompin Tom Connors and Oh Canada and we belted out the two songs.  They all slapped on Canada tattoos and we headed outside to play hockey.  Cath made a cake for the occasion!  The afternoon was a masquerade themed social in the hall for students who created their own masks for the occasion.  Cath made mine, a koala bear and glued on a piece of ecualyptus.  We danced the afternoon away and sent the kids home for two weeks.

Immediately after school my other colleague, also named Cath, picked me up from school with her two princesses, Charlotte and Georgia, (they call me Zoozann) and we headed out to a little town called Weewaa!  Cath was invited to a Mad Hatters Tea Party in this little town so we stayed overnight at her mother-in-laws house.  Anna had a beautiful lasagne meal waiting for us upon our arrival.  In the morning we were up and out the door to attend the tea party.  One of the photos shows the cake that they actually cut just before we left.  I was armed with souvenirs from the store hosting the tea party and we headed back home.  Along the way Cath took me sight seeing.  We stopped at an observatory with the most ginormous satellite dishes I've ever seen.  They run along a 9 meter wide railway to track outer space 'stuff'.  Back into the car and our next stop was Sawn Rock.  A little 800 meter walk into the bush lead us to this spectacular rock face in the Mount Kaputar National Park.  Once I arrived home I had to pack my bags as I was heading to Sydney in the morning.