Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! I enjoyed a nice turkey dinner this evening, complete with pumpkin pie, but of course it will never feel the same without family and being in such warm weather (and without football). Teacher's at school had found out it was Thanksgiving and made sure to come and wish me a happy Thanksgiving, which was very sweet of them. The Thanksgiving lessons for the day have gone fantastic, but the kids were stuck on the fact that we got days off of school to celebrate this holiday, so they wish they had it too. The only thing they really didn't like about it was that some people would eat such a thing as pumpkin pie. Just the thought disgusted them, but I tried to explain how its actually quite sweet and that they might actually enjoy it.

Yesterday I enjoyed the evening in the city at the World Gymnastics championships. We only were there for the preliminaries, but it was still fantastic to watch. The two U.S. girls were in first and second place, but Australia had high hopes for one of their gymnasts. Being in Australia I cheered for her to do well, but hoping she would just be a little bad to keep the U.S. gals ahead. She ended up placing third in the prelims. :) But she scored the highest an Australian had ever scored in the all around.

I have been teaching full time for two days now and I am still enjoying it and so are the students. They love the maths lessons, which is good because it seems like the most difficult subject to get students to like.

Tomorrow night I head of to the Cairns for snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef so check for updates with pictures early next week.