August 11, 2006

• It's been a very long time since my last entry, because other things
  are always more urgent and important. I'm not sure I can spare the time
  now, but I will.

  Back at school for four weeks, and it's been pretty good. Most of the
  time I can see the results of my efforts, but, every now and then, I
  realise that it still requires me being there to make it all work, so
  there is still a long way to go. We have four new expatriate teachers
  this year, and they all look like they will be the "goods". The two
  "survivors" are also contributing well. I need a maths teacher though,
  and, even if we get someone in January, it will be too late to take the
  VCE class from me.

  The VCE kids didn't like the change from their teacher of more than two
  years to me, initially, but I think they realise they're being catered
  for pretty well. It's a lot of work to get many of them to anything
  like pass standard in the next two months. We'll see how it goes.

  The other task is getting some music together for a couple of events at
  the end of the month, related to the 75th birthday of the bloke who
  owns our school, and pretty much everything else for kilometres. (And
  that's a small part of his business.)

  At the moment, we are rationalising stuff in our cupboards, before
  moving to another, bigger place in two weeks. There's not as much stuff
  to throw out as I thought. There is a lot of of stuff to move, even if
  it is only 2km away.

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