Saturday 7 October 2017

Half way into Spring

How's everything and everyone going? Hope all is well and enjoying your autumn/spring season.  We are supposedly be in spring but we had more summer temperatures here already.  Storm season already started after a dry autumn and winter seasons. Still not a lot of rain in SE QLD to fill up our dams.  I heard Bundaberg copped a good dose of the rainfall last week! 

Here I thought it was time to put our winter supplies away but it's overcast, windy (on the north side) and cooler here today!  Supposedly be cooler temps and overcast with showers this weekend!  Thank goodness I done all the washing of my clothes yesterday before I went to college.  And managed to get home in time before the storm arrived.

What did yesterday's storm do? On my way home yesterday I could see a good storm brewing on the Southside. My eldest daughter text me once I got home from college to say the storm looked to be really a nasty one near her way. She moved to Acacia Ridge (not far from our old address years ago.  She was too young to remember living there) after her daughter's first birthday party in July. I won't got into details to why the sudden move from Regents Park to where they are now. 

I didn't catch the news report to find out who copped the nasty looking storm but we only had the tail end of the cell at my place.  Just one heavy shower for 5-10 minutes and abit windy. Not strong enough to worry about moving my car off the street.

Nothing special to report about September...Just basically done the normal routine each week with work at the boutique store but my volunteer hours have now dropped, two craft meets, bowling and study my course which takes up my days of the week now. The last two weeks of September were school holidays.

This week was back to school for Term 4...the last term for the school year in Australia.  Back to college this week after a two week break but I only had one week as the first week I had a module to finish off and do my first aid training. 

I started my work experience this week.  I had two days of attending to a year one class.  After discussions with other students yesterday it seems I am the only one with the most hours of working and shorter breaks. I work 6 hours per day! I only have half an hour break per day which suits me fine as I used to it from other occupations.  Most of the time I feel that is all I really need! Even at college we only get half an hour at lunchtime. Sadly I don't eat much during the break because I am a slow eater!

Our curriculum sure has changed since my school days. In the classroom this week the students were learning about English procedure (ie how to write one).  Do you know what that is? I was more surprise to see the juniors are learning this. I thought this assessment would suit high school students more. When I mentioned to afew people at work (at the shop) they were surprised too.  One person said these students will be doing university work by the time they hit senior primary (ie year 6).

Better go as I have an assessment to do and finish off my module this weekend. My assessment work is to create a bookmark (with an educational note on it)  This week we were learning about supporting students with literacy skills.  Next week will be about numeracy. 


Have a good weekend!