First Day at my New School!

Today was absolutely freaking amazing!! I got to school a touch late, and showed up after a staff training was already in progress. 

I was welcomed right into the group by the teachers, principal, aides, and all. 

After an hour and a half of training that reminded me a lot of classes and seminars (in a good way) we took a break for...morning tea!

It turns out this is a pretty standard thing...although I could have sworn morning and afternoon tea were British things..

Anyway, after tea, we went back to some more training, including a lot of team building as well as brainstorming ideas of things the school does well, things the school needs to improve upon, and interesting things to think about/discuss. After lunch, we did some more training, and were allowed to break off into classrooms.

I spent some time with Blake, my host teacher who is awesome! With him and his partner teacher, Jenny, who is also awesome!

I can already tell this is going to be an incredible quarter. I got kind of an introduction to what the classroom is like. There are a lot of things that are the same, and a lot of things that are different from a classroom in the states.

After school, Judy (my mom's host mum when she was here at school in 1981) picked me up! She brought me back to her house and catch up with her and her husband Bob. They still live in the same house where they lived when my mom was actually here! Funnily enough, while I was visiting Bob and Heather, another of my mom's host parents' called! I got chat with two sets of very, very important people! 

Also this evening, I solved how to get to school! I did quite a bit of research and found how to get to school on the bus! It certainly could be worse! I'm so excited to utilize the awesome public transportation system!! :-D

Tomorrow I get to meet my kids! I am so excited to meet the kids. I will let you know as soon as possible how wonderful they are! I can't wait to meet them, see how my host teacher interacts with those kids, and hear the little Australians' accents!

I'll let you know how it goes!