Friday Footy!
Thursday was a pretty boring day, so I just went ahead and skipped right over it.
Friday! Our co-teacher was home sick all day, so Blake went ahead and covered her classroom, and I covered ours. We did have a CRT (Casual Relief Teacher - Substitute), but she just acted as an aide for most of the day.
Friday after school was pretty tricky for several reasons:
Had a meeting with a students' mum and she was absolutely wonderful! We chatted a little bit about her son and what kinds of supports we have in place and we will put in place to help him out in social situations, and academically.
Immediately after our meeting with a mum, we were told about a situation that occurred directly after school with two of our students. Because the whole story is incredibly complicated, I'll just tell you that there's a long history of bullying between the two, and there were a series of bad decisions made on both sides, and parents were involved, phone calls were made, and some serious changes are going to be made with those boys.
Immediately after working with this situation, we had to tend to a situation with a student who is physically beating up on other kids. This includes deciding the kind of disciplinary actions to take, what to say to Mum, and how to re-integrate him into the classroom after his incredibly violent disruptions.
Anyway, eventually I got home, just in time to change my clothes and head out to the footy game!
Kylen, Melissa, Kelsey, Mark, and I went to Etihad Stadium in the Docklands to see the St.Kilda v. Geelong game. As Mark barracks for Geelong, we all decided to barrack for St. Kilda, just because....We like to mess with people:)
We were sitting waaaay up in the nosebleed section which is fun, because you can see such a huge angle of view, so we could see the whole field from where we were sitting. The players looked like little ants, but we certainly could see the whole thing!
Highlight of the travel to the game: I found a two dollar coin on the ground! I sneakily dropped another coin on the ground so I had an excuse to squat down and pick up both of them:-D It was awesome and clever.
The game was fun; St. Kilda really did give Geelong a run for their money, but in the end Geelong won out.
Aside from a stupid clock in the stadium that would freaking change for a half hour, the game was fun, and delicious! The chips we had were easily the saltiest snack I have ever had in my life, and I actually left some chips on the plate! Whoa.
This was the spectacular view from our seats:
Etihad is an ENORMOUS stadium, and seats around 90,000 people I believe. However, compared to MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground), it's tiny! The MCG seats about 120,000 I believe, and I am absolutely terrified out of my mind to go there, because there's absolutely no escape from all the people! Aaaah!
Anyway, we had fun, and got home a little on the early side, but we were all quite exhausted.
Saturday
Saturday morning started out slow, as our weekend mornings often do. Kylen, Melissa, Kelsey and I have been planning to go up north on our holiday all together, and Saturday morning, I turned travel agent, and may have done a tiny bit of bullying people into making decisions. I'm relatively certain that I didn't bully anyone into anything they don't like, but I definitely bullied people into making decisions, because we had been wishy-washy about it since we had first started talking about it. Heh.
So, come our holidays, when Kelsey, Kylen and I are finished with our student teaching, the four of us will head out from Melbourne on this journey:
September 25th:
Fly from Melbourne to Brisbane, NSW
Bus from Brisbane to Noosa
Spend three days laying on beaches, hiring bbq boats, and other vacation-y stuff while staying at a hostel!
September 29th:
Bus from Noosa to Brisbane
Fly from Brisbane to Sydney
Check in at a Hostel and Kylen and Kelsey stay three days and Melissa and I stay five days!
October 4th:
Fly from Sydney to Melbourne
I am so excited to our holiday I can't even handle it all!! On Saturday morning we managed to get all of our flights and hostels booked for our holiday, and since we can't back out anymore, it's finally real! :-D
After getting everything booked, we headed to the train station! At this point, Kelsey is beginning to feel a little bit sick with a cold, and so she headed back home. Kylen, Melissa and I headed into the city to find Brunswick street, a shopping area we had been told about on at least three different occasions by three different people!
We mosied our way into the city, but, unfortunately, I forgot my map of the City. This is very strange, because I NEVER forget my map of the city. Anyway, once we got off the train, we couldn't freaking find the damn street! We spent quite a while wandering Fitzroy, and Johnston, and past the Royal Exhibition Building before we eventually found all the cute little shops down the road! On this walk we found a lot of cool things, but we found two absolutely FANTASTIC things. One of them was an amazing gift for my babies; I will not show a picture of this, because it's on display in my room now because it's so. freaking. awesome. We also found a place called the 'Chocolateria: San Churro'. Over the door it says, "Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate!". The chocolate was absolutely AMAZING. And we WILL be going back for the fondue for sure!
Once we made it back to the train to get home (with the help of some strangers who were very nice), we headed out to Tor's house to go with her to a party at her boyfriend's footy club! We had a good time for a bit, but after a while we realized that club wasn't really our scene, and so we headed out for a relatively early night. We made it home and spent a while chatting and being silly with Jo and Gretchen before heading off to bed.
Sunday was an AWESOME day, but it's definitely time for me to go to bed tonight, so I will talk about today tomorrow. Hah.
Thanks for reading!
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