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 and 4th form!

That’s everyone except for the wee little preppies! I’m all hockeyed out!

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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… 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!).

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 wee dram. Continue reading this post…

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 common room’ – which is also pretty well furnished. nintendo 64 with mario kart! ha ha. We have fun.

Happy Birthday to Me! 🙂

18! Hopefully will be able to go out and celebrate tonight! Will post any pics if i do!

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 little difficulty with the later email. If you have sent any emails to mitchell@mitchellstevens.com since i have been gone, i haven’t received them! So can you please resend them to mitch444! Thanks!

In the meantime though, keep those comments coming! I love it when people leave messages. Even if it’s simply “hi”. Special thanks go out to my repeat commentors!  🙂

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).

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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 showed us around the town, but being outnumbered  2-1 by the girls, I ended up spending the whole day shopping. ha ha. No, it was actually pretty fun and good to get away from the school for a little bit.

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 me in: “but we’re celebrating my 18th which is in two days and i don’t have another night off for a week and we’ve travelled all the way from crieff….” Continue reading this post…