Another week of swimming.
The city skyline from Albert Park where the MSAC swimming complex is.
Going our way?
Arndt, Trish and Christelle.
October
10-14th.
This
week we had swimming in the afternoon again. One day when we went
outside and the bus wasn't there, the kids promptly started to
hitch-hike. They had heard about that in the story I was reading to
the class, so they decided to try it. It was cute and they were
having fun. On the Friday, after the lesson they were given ten
minutes in the wave pool as a celebration of the end of the two week
program. They loved that.
Professional
learning time this week was about anaphylaxis and epipens. This is
compulsory every two years. On Monday, our school nurse lead a
workshop about the topic and then on Tuesday we had to take an on
line course, where we had to read the information and answer some
basic questions to get our certificate. But realistically, after all
the times I have been instructed about epipens and the workshop on
Monday, I didn't need to read the information on line and just
browsed through it to get to the quizzes. The questions were very
simple and common sense, and if you did get one wrong they gave you a
second chance (really good with True and False questions!). I told
Don, that if we gave our kids this kind of test they'd all get A's.
On
Friday night I went to Crystelle's for dinner. She teaches the French
half of the grade one binome. I met her the first time we had an after
school drink on a Friday back in February. We were the only two there
for the first half hour and when she found out I was on exchange, she
said she should invite me our for dinner... and viola! Eight months
later it happened. I met her two sons Sam, who goes to our school,
and Tom who will start next year and her husband Arndt, who is German.
We had a good time talking about lots of things and little about
teaching. Later, Trish came over too. She is a retired teacher who is
filling in for a few weeks and working with Crystelle. We had a
couple of drinks and hamburgers. Good night.
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