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A School District Providing Swimming Competitions and Scripture Classes During the School Day? Read more to find out! Annual Beaumont Road Public School  Swimming Carnival Held 1st March, 2016 Hello Elementary Friends! Happy March and the beginning of Autumn to you!  Whoops - I mean happy spring to the USA in about three weeks.  Here in Australia, Autumn is considered to be the full months of March, April, and May.  It is still quite warm here, but we are told that it won't be long until we start to feel the cooler air in the mornings and the evenings.  I must say that even though we have made it just fine since we have been here, I am ready for some cooler temperatures. Before I start this week's blog, I promised you last week to translate the welcome slide from the NSW Teacher Exchange League training, so here it is: Gday Gday  [Hello] Honorary Cockroaches [people from NSW,]  (we call Queenslanders, to the north Cane Toads and Victorians , Mexicans, ...

Department of NSW Holds Welcome and Training Hello Elementary Friends, Last Friday (19th February) I attended a required training at the New South Wales Department of Education.  Here is the content of the opening slide of our presentation from one of the executives in the Department: Hard Yakka It’s bloody bute that you have come on a walkabout, I am sure that you will give it a fair crack of the whip, although I reckon your folks think you’re a ding bat for havin a go. It’s a bonzer place so have a Captain Cook. Check out the big smoke, visit the coat hanger, go to the never never, go out into the big red, watch some aerial ping-pong and chuck on the cozzie or togs (budgie smugglers or thong) and have a splash. The tucker is ridgie dige so enjoy a cut lunch, spag bol, hot chook or dog’s eye with the occasional coldie.  Or if you prefer a chardie or cab sav …… even the clean skins are  good for a rage. If you are a bludger, a wowser or a wuss I’m sorry. Its better to yab...

A Australia is a Coffee Lover's Dream Come True! Hello Elementary Friends, I know that I have MANY coffee loving friends out there.  If you want good coffee, you have to come to Australia!  They take their coffee very seriously here.   Australians are members of the world’s great lovers of coffee.  They love those black beans more wholeheartedly than most countries in the world.  According to Tourism Australia, when coffee was originally brought to Australia on the First Fleet in 1788, it was of questionable quality and it was not until the 1950s that good quality espresso coffee was introduced to Australians.  This largely came about with the influence of European migrants.  Those Australians whose families came from places such as Italy, Greece, France, Turkey, Austria and Hungary had always enjoyed a decent cup of coffee at home but it wasn’t always easy to find their favoured espresso or latte in a neighbourhood café. The last couple of decades hav...