Year 11 camp

I have not been in the mood to write lately at all. Its like I am doing so much awesome stuff, but I just don't feel like putting it down into words. I still write in my journal for school, but I don't really write in it for any of the outside stuff. Strange Anna Banana.
So the last three days I was at year 11 camp. It was awesome. There were 120 year 11 students at a place called camp Maranatha building their leadership skills. I got to build mine to. There was 11 students in my group A2 or Chatoas as we named our selves. We did a fire dance and many other activities together. At my school there is a huge variety of international students and all of those students must attend camp. My group had two Italian a German one Chinese one Brazilian and 6 Australian. We had so much fun together. On the first day we got to do the high ropes. I got to do it because I pretended I was a student and the guys in charge had no idea until I started flirting with one of them and gave myself up. They let me do it any way though and I was sooooooooooooooo scared but I climbed all the way up and jumped and made it across all of the ropes. It was nuts. A student Tod was my partner and he was awesome. I will put up pictures later, I'm not on my computer right now. We also had to do an amazing race type game, a few students were really into it at first, but they were really tired so it was rough towards the end. It might have helped if they didn't stay up all night. The guys snuck in some bottles and the girls kept trying to sneak out. I wouldn't have cared so much, they just kept me up to. The third huge activity that we did as a group was called rock and water. You have to find your center of balance or center of gravity and its just really cool. At the end we all broke a piece of wood in half.
All together there were nine groups and my group came in third after all of the activities. Which is sweet! Last night there was a dance and they taught all sorts of Bush dances that were soooooo fun. Then they were like, Hey American girls, teach us an American dance! So Meredith and I taught Cottin Eyed Joe. We taught it to a few teachers before the dance started and then a group of like 5 teachers started it and we got almost ALL of the students to join in. Then the teacher who was in charge told everyone to turn around and do it again so that the back of the room could be in front. So I ran all the way around and came up in front again so I could lead the kids in the back. I was so into it all of the teachers were laughing histerically and having a great time. We did a whole lot of group dances including The Time Warp and Macarana. It was an excellent night. Oh I forgot the theme of the whole camp was cowboys and indians so I was of course completely decked out most of the time including face paint. It was a great couple of days and now I feel a lot closer with a lot of the teachers. I'll put up more pictures soon I promise. I'm going for a run now

Mom wanted to know what I wore out last night. I figured I would give you a small taste :)


And this was last weekend... I figure I should up hold some sort of ridiculousness here. It also helps so less guys talk to me... That doesn't mean I stop talking to them though! They just walk away :( haha

The last few weeks

So it has been a ridiculous three weeks. The trip was awesome. I did some pretty freaking amazing stuff. I am constantly exhausted now because I want to do so much stuff. Teaching the first week was really intimidating but there are some awesome teachers in m department. I am teaching 4 of the hardest maths classes in the department, and one more tenth grade class. Has anyone ever heard of annuities? That is what I taught today. Crazy. I will definitely right more about my trip soon. Right now everything is in my head and I am savoring it there for a little while longer before I want to talk about it. This past weekend we went to the zoo. The Australian Zoo home of the famous crocodile hunter. It was awesome. Not only did I hug a Koala, but I fed an elephant, laid on the back of a (fake) crocodile, and of course, spooned a kangaroo!!! On July 4th I went White Water Rafting. The day before that I had snorkeled the Great Barrier Reef. Just days before that I went on a tour of Magnetic Island with my roommate Heather. Then I got to dance on stage with some aboriginals, well cause I'm Anna Sullivan so I invited myself on stage :)

We made small pizzas for dinner tonight, amazing. We went running together just before that. Today at school the female teacher that I am working with was absent. She had asked me to prepare lessons for the two classes that I am in with her for today so I was able to totally teach them because she wasn't there. There was another teacher in the room who was supposed to be the sub, but she came 20 minutes late so she just sat in back. At the end of the lesson she wrote a lot of really great comments about how I was teaching. THEN she brought it to the principal! He came in during my last period and told me congratulations! In front of my teacher too. Yeah so I have two teachers, a guy and a girl. The guy is my real actual teacher, but I also have another teacher and I am in two of her classes. Alright time to write some lesson plans, then bed.

And I of course wake up way to early for school. I take a picture of the sunrise every morning...