Andrew R. Pulling

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Twosday

Feel lucky, postings two days in a row. I met another relief (substitute) teacher today who was filling in for Brian. (my coordinating teacher) I enjoy meeting people everyday.

I was able to play squash yesterday after school with Gav and another teacher. I am terrible at it, and got smoked each time I played, even when they were taking it easy on me. A weird but fun game. On the way home I caught my first Perth Sunset at Hillary's Boat Harbor. It was a decent sunset, Gav claimed it wasn't very good, I enjoyed it nonetheless.

School differences are seeming to become more evident. For example, Athletics aren't connected with the school. Each community has a set of sports clubs where the students join the club and then play other clubs in the area. So this then changes the whole community and school connection that so many USA schools take for granted. This also means teachers are very rarely connected with students outside of school. I only know of one teacher who is a coach, she is a girls PE teacher who coaches netball. (female sport) She is also one of the harder working teachers in the school because of it. The same but with twist.

I'm am making it a point to have pictures up sometime this week! Mark my words. I feel terrible about that. A little shorter but more frequent, take the good with the bad. Hopefully be back soon...

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