Eat my dust

It was a weird feeling driving out of town on Saturday morning, leaving all the Morvenians behind. In someways, I'd had enough and was keen to get back to civilisation. In others, it was good to feel a part of something and be included in the running and decision-making of a school like I'd never been before. I stumbled out of bed and just threw everything in the car and managed to hit the road at about 8:30am. The drive back wasn't anywhere near as exciting as it was coming out. I enjoyed getting to Roma, but the Dalby-Toowoomba-Brisbane stretch was super boring... I just wanted to get home as quickly as I could. Eight hours, 690km, three Triple J radio-frequency changes and 2 flat-whites later... I did!

The last day I was there went really well. The kids were mostly finishing off everything that they hadn't completed over the last few weeks... but they had a test and other things to do as well. The kids made this big "goodbye" card for me, all signed it, and presented it on assembly... which was nice. I had them for sport in the afternoon and totally ran them ragged (muhahah... take that!).


We all had dinner and drinks together on Friday evening to mark my departure. Ivone (Bill's sister), Bill, Ben, Brigitte, John (Ivone's wife) and I got together and washed the dust down with plenty of spirits, beer and wine (including the 'goon' variety... full of class out here in the country!). I'm sure we were the loudest, drunkest bunch in the town that night (an achievement, mind you). It was great fun and a perfect ending to the four weeks.


Here are a couple of my favourite photos from the trip. The one on the left is of a barn about 10 minutes west of Roma. It absolutely looks like it's sitting on top of the world. The one on the right is a photo from our backyard of the sun going down on my last night in Morven.

It has been a crazy four weeks, which has absolutely flown by. I've got a sneaky suspicision I'll be back here again before too long...!

From Morven, signing off!