WE GOT A RUGBY BALL!!!

Just to re-emphasise the point, WE GOT A RUGBY BALL!!!

This afternoon, Br Rick asked if we could go into the container of donated clothes from other schools so that we could give away or sell jumpers tomorrow considering that today was pretty much freezing for the kids with the already cold day made worse with high winds, constant drizzle. But going through the things, there were boxes of old school jumpers and uniforms but one box which looked like it was almost never disturbed. I opened it up to see a box full of brand new Summit rugby balls! Still in the wrapper, obviously sent up but an east coast school a while ago considering they were the balls with the printed signatures with names like Gregan, Totai Kefu, Dan Vickerman and Ben Tune just to name a few. It’s actually weird how many of them I recognised from my obsessed days! So that was actually my biggest inspiration for writing this blog. These people out here just don’t appreciate the beauty of a rugby ball. I did also grab myself a nice big long sleeve shirt from St Mary’s College, Broome but I will put a donation in for that.

Not much else has happened since we last spoke, the weather’s only gotten worse which has lead to pool not opening which has lead to an unhappy Henry. I’ve had to go back into classrooms in afternoons which as anyone who has had anything to do with school children on a rainy day, isn’t fun! But they do still provide you with some laughs, which often get me ‘you’re a teacher, you shouldn’t be laughing at that’ looks from teachers but oh well.

Oh and one of the kids favourite pastimes after and even during school is climbing onto the school rooves and running along and climbing across the drain pipes joining the buildings. Well today one kid had run away from my class and then 10minutes later I find out that he’s fallen off while climbing on the drain pipe onto the concrete so the clinic sent out a car and took him away on a stretcher. Luckily, it turns out that he’s got a fractured wrist at worst.

If anyone’s tried to contact me recently, reception has been very on/off lately both internet and phone apparently because of a cyclone up near Darwin.