So tomorrow morning I’m heading out to Kununurra morning with some secondary kids for a Kimberly athletics carnival which I have been training them up for during their sport time in the afternoons so I thought I should do a bit of catching up before I go.
First thing I can remember that you missed was the Air Force coming to Balgo with a hot air balloon. The night before we had a fire at the prac students’ house and the new youth worker told us that it was coming at 5am in the morning, leaving at 12 and wouldn’t go up if there was any wind… what they obviously didn’t know was that at that time, there were massive winds every day in Balgo. I woke up at 6, heard an absolute gale blowing outside so went straight back to sleep.
We had a PD about ‘restorative justice’ over a Saturday which was a bit of a killer but it was really interesting. It was a new approach to discipline and behavior management which the school is looking to adopt for the students.
Out at the pound, Ale and I invented a new game called ‘rock chicken’ where basically you stand back to back with someone with rocks in each hand, throw them up into the air and whoever either runs away or gets hit the least is the winner! Great fun!
Because of helping out with Primary D while Anthony was in Spain for world youth day, I was invited to go on their bush trip with them. We were meant to go catch sand frogs which I had heard from every other trip, we were certain to catch over 20… we caught one.
But I must say, it was still good fun out at the dam. We then set out to Old Lady’s Bore and when we arrived, we waited for the other car for a while but they never showed so Cathy lit a fire either side of the troupie and we headed back to the dam before we got totally closed in. Apparently they lost us so they turned back.
The pool is now open 3 days a week and its good the kids are back enjoying themselves. But one highlight so far has definitely been training up the secondary kids for athletics. We don’t exactly have the best equipment around but we are making do. So far key events have been:
- The 50m sprint
- The shot put (using a lead ball found in the shed in a ‘V’ made of a sprinkler hose)
- High jump (jumping over a skipping rope on the grass)
- Distance running, where there is actually a lot of potential!
- Long jump (jumping as far as you can on the grass/rocks)
- Discus (My personal favourite, in the same ‘V’ as the shot but with a home-made discus made of two ceramic plates duct taped together, filled with dirt and rocks and a bit of foam between them to delay shattering. They did shatter after only about 4 throws but it did keep shape).
So I think that leaves you rather up to date with my Balgo happenings thus far, I’ll be sure to report back after Kununurra J
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