News from the treadmill.

So...I have survived to 'Tav Night' and I am on the cusp of the weekend and nearly halfway through the first week of my second 'fulltime' fortnight.Monday found me teaching discus throwing to Preppies and Year 1's! I hadn't expected to be doing that when I arrived at the school and certainly would never have predicted it but such is life. Apparently, I suspect I might be doing shot put next Monday!Since Tuesday I have been at the school in town and so far so good. You may remember that after accepting the work I discovered the addition of an extra class member who I witnessed kicking off outside on a previous visit. He has autism and I was told he has one to one support all the time but I have discovered that is not so and there are a couple of 30 minute periods in the day where there is no support for him. So far all has been fine though I did end up having to take him to Parade (assembly) with his box of (paper) snakes, to keep him occupied. He hates to stand and sing the National Anthem and nearly kicked off at that time but spent the rest of the time slouched on my knees with his paper snakes nibbling at my arm.The class have been working well though it would seem when they get outside all hell breaks loose and a few of the Senior Management Team are on break time surveillance watching some of the boys from my class.I know some of them can be a handful but so far in class they have really listened well and been trying their best to please me. There was some incident with two of the girls yesterday that I knew nothing about and at 3.00 pm I had a mother wade in, she looked like she was wearing war paint as she had three blue stripes across each cheek, (It was a State of Origin football match yesterday between Queensland and New South Wales....blue signifies a NSW supporter)...any way in wades war paint woman, like a lioness protecting her wounded cub, spoiling for a fight." Excuse me can you tell me why my daughter has been....""No," I cut her off, " I know nothing about it. It happened at lunchtime so I suggest you go and see someone at the office as they were the ones who have sorted it out."I don't normally care about State of Origin but Queensland beat NSW last night so war woman would have been very disappointed. Ha!I was dreading the computer lesson today from previous experience but it turned out to be far worse than I expected as instead of computers we were doing CLAY!I don't know where I found the strength from to get me through that hellish 45 minutes but I did and I lived to endure another day.4 down, 6 to go. I can't wait to get back to my old routine of pretty much doing what I please for 6 days a week.Oh, I almost forgot...I have something else to look forward to.I have booked my plane tickets for another 'Up Over' visit from the 8th to the 29th September. I am flying alone this time as Will is staying to make cheese. After his month away last time it took ages to get everything back to normal again on his return.I shouldn't complain about the work as that is paying for this second trip this year...but I can't help it....and so I will.