Week 33 , graduations and Olympic fever

Paper craft giraffe small stars (5-6)
Trail Blazers graduation with parents after an Open Door (parents welcome for last 40 mins of 3 hrs)

Small Stars 0 (3-4yo) on basketball Von with MaMa and Elmo
Monkey (Carol) leading me into the Fun O Land fun

Micky with his art deco Union Jack (Olympic flags)
High Flyers class graduates, some go some stay some new!
Monkey and Von at Fun O Land
Dinner, meat off teh skewer at Brazilian BBQ

Ok, I'll admit it, I have used my out of school time to watch the Olympic coverage.

this last week at school has been a week of graduations as kids leave to have a shortened summer holiday. It's a bit of a revolving door as new students come in for a short summer term!

We went out to dinner at the Brazil BBQ which is a full on feast! This was the summer teacher's farewell and thankyou. I know I ate some things I'd rather not know about but most of it was very tasty. A party afterwards at Luke and Lei's allowed me to meet a lot of the other teachers from the other two SZ kids schools, resulting in a warm feeling about coming back and a list of things to bring back with me like Lucas Pawpaw cream (which I have some of anyway).

A kiwi with a really strong accent sided with me vs the Canadians (who have won no medals yet). A really mixed bunch - Canada, Cameroon, Philippines, Poland, NZ, Aussie, England, Ireland, Swedish maybe....many non Chinese teachers in China teaching English.

The next morning I was on duty at FunO Land, the kids zone nearby and I have to say with no shame that I loved it! Crawling through tunnels that wobble and shake, climbing over wellpadded obstacles and being shot at by foam balls. Don't let on how old I really am! Wednesday is the day off so I have mine on Saturday, convenient for packing I guess as I fly out Monday and teach most of Sunday.

I found a bar 3D which is a beer bar and sells Kilkenny on tap, Newcastle Brown and Coopers by the stubbie! Not cheap but the TV was on a China bravely lost to Spain in the Basketball. Very emotive crowd. Had to get to dinner so I left before the end which was sad for China.

Greetings from Yiwan, my Chinesed name apparently.

Home to SA soon, mummm, Maggie Beer, Mr Dinh's, A crisp sparkling white, french toast and a really good flat white coffee immediately come to mind. Hindley Street for coffee...the rest will follow. I am due at work for a meeting at 8.30 am after arriving on schedule at 6ish, after customs etc and a change into work clothes at teh airport , the J 1 bus to the city and - TAFE here I come for 9 days work (to pay for upfront costs of return to China later if all permits come through).

I look forward to catching up with family and friends. More photos will be posted on Facebook

Till next time