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Posted in January 17th, 2008
Today one of the PE teachers was off sick. So, I was covering for her. I first took the form 1’s (7-8 yr olds) for two periods of hockey, then the form 2’s for two periods of hockey. Was then with the 5th and 6th form boys (again, hockey), before finishing off the day with the 3rd […]
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Posted in January 17th, 2008
Here’s some pics of Ardvreck, the amazing school that is now my home: From behind. That’s my little flat in the foreground, and the music school just behind that. In the background with the turrets is the school from the back.
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Posted in January 16th, 2008
… well, maybe not. But I had 104 visitors to my site yesterday!!! 🙂 Make sure you comment!!! It’s almost the only contact I have with you all back home! And please leave an email that i can contact you on (remembering that i can’t send or receive emails from to and from hotmail accounts!).
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Posted in January 16th, 2008
After work yesterday, the gappies and Sara took me out for a celebratory drink. Unfortunately, the barman didn’t ask for i.d. 🙁 We went to the crieff hotel and had a few drinks, before heading back to John’s house (the guy I play volleyball with on a thursday night, and looks like Hugh Grant) for a […]
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Posted in January 16th, 2008
Thought it might be good to post a picture of the other gappies who are here with me: There’s kat, (on the far side) from canberra, chloe from armidale and joe from the hunter valley. They’re a great bunch of guys and we all get along really well. We chill out a lot in our special ‘gappies […]
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Posted in January 15th, 2008
Happy Birthday to Me! 🙂 18! Hopefully will be able to go out and celebrate tonight! Will post any pics if i do!
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Posted in January 15th, 2008
I can’t send any emails to @hotmail.com addresses. The school filter just doesn’t allow it. So i can’t reply personally to almost all of you! 🙁 I am trying to find a way to bypass it. Anyone have any ideas? Also, just for the moment, send any emails to mitch444@bigpond.net.au, not mitchell@mitchellstevens.com. I am having a […]
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Posted in January 15th, 2008
I have realised that my week is split into two halves: the good, and the hectic. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (my one day off) and saturday are the ‘good halves’. I have a day off, and no morning duties (i.e. waking kids up) or arvo duties (i.e. putting kids to bed). Today was a hectic […]
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Posted in January 14th, 2008
I had my first day off from work on Friday! I only have one day off a week (yes, i do work weekends). I went into a local town called Stirling for the day with one of the other gappies called Kat (on the right) and the daughter of one of the teachers here (sara). Sara […]
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Posted in January 14th, 2008
On saturday night, us gappies have the night off duty. So, yesterday, sara (teacher’s daughter) took us four out for a night on the town. Caught the bus to Perth (another town about 45mins away) to a pub/night club called sportstas. Only problem was, i’m not 18, but managed to convince the bouncers to let […]
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