So, you reckon you're cold?

It has been a while since I've been somewhere this cold. During the day it's been pretty good - 23-25 degrees on average. However, in the morning, it has been somewhere between 0 and 2 degrees most mornings. The coldest time is actually about 6:30am... just as the sun is rising. I'm sure I'm setting world records in my sprint from my cosy, warm bed to the steamy, hot shower. It's painful, people. PAINFUL! Of course, I get no sympathy from the learned locals, are describing the weather as "average". Shoot.

I'd like to introduce Trigger to everyone. He really is a good dog. Very friendly. He's actually the best type of dog... the kind that looks quite dangerous to strangers, but is just a big teddy-bear underneath. He's only 10 months or so old, so he's very energetic. I found out the hard way that these "country dogs" are yet to grasp the "heel" concept... as my arm was nearly pulled out of it's socket taking him for a walk. Double shoot.

The professional development day at Roma on Thursday went really well. It was small - only 15 or so people (mainly principals from around the region). It was all ICT stuff... and there was a good session on The Learning Place which I enjoyed. As we left Roma at about 4pm, I was on permanent "Roo Scouting", as dusk is when they are out feeding. We got about three-quarters of the way back to Morven before we hit one. It was only a little one, and as we started getting close to it, it hopped off to the left of the road. However (after it had a brain-explosion) it decided to hop BACK across the road in front of us.... SPLAT! Stupid thing. Ah well... we figured that for a 400km drive, at dawn and dusk, we did pretty well to only hit one kangaroo. There's always a "bright-side" in the outback!

School's going well, though. I had a couple of lessons on Friday which went really well. After an easy-ish week this week, I think the workload will drastically increase next week. The kids are all angels. I've decided that "behaviour issues" is definitely a relative thing. The most annoying kids at Morven would not even rate at most other Brisbane schools. Here's a piccie of our classroom (and a very angry Mr Perkins). Be good, kids!

Hope everyone is well back home.

Ciao for now!