So this week started on Thursday, with me working during ‘Club & Culture’ and also ‘Boarding’. Club and Culture consisted of me helping out with Cultural Identity, which is a great way to learn about the cultures many students come from here at the school. It was a productive session, with me working with 2 children who were happy with talking to me, telling me such things as; what food they eat within their community, telling me about a famous women who knits various things such as baskets, about their families and also what they enjoy doing within their communities. I’m trying to help out in this lesson whenever I’m put in on ‘Club & Culture’ because its a great way to understand the kids here, what they go through ect. After this I was put on Boarding, which consisted of going around the site and checking all the boys were accounted for and none had gone missing (luckily they were all there!). Later on in the evening a couple of the boarders decided they wanted to have a pillow fight with me and Soren, which lasted for about half an hour, due to their enegetic personalities not wanting to stop haha!
Friday came and meant the weekend was nearly here! I only had Club & Culture this day, which started off pretty eventful, but I can’t go into further detail for various reasons about this. However, this turned into quite a quiet session with most of us Volunteers helping out in the Library ‘Chillout session’, where the boarders were allowed to do anything they wanted. It went pretty quick and our weekend was soon to start! With Friday night being a bit of a chillout evening watching a couple of episodes of ‘Friends’! We kind of have an addiction to watching that here haha!
Saturday started pretty earlish with us catching the 11ish bus into Cairns central to watch one of the teachers here from Djarragun and his band/ group do a few songs down at the Lagoon, which was a good chilled out afternoon. A couple of volunteers went to the movies to watch ‘Les Miserables’, while some of stayed at the Lagoon before going into Cairns Central shopping centre for a bit of a wonder round, planning things were going to buy for my birthday in May haha! Was quite a funny afternoon! Then came food shopping time, with us going to one store and then getting a tiny way round before realising its closing, so we vacated and went to another one! We finally got home and Saturday night was my night to cook a meal for everyone (were all taking it in turns each Saturday cooking a meal for everyone!) I attempted my first curry, a Chicken Tikka Masala, which could of done with a bit more sauce, but I was pretty proud of it and for the fact no-one ended up with food poisoning, which is always a bonus!
Sunday came with a good chillout for the day! Giving us the chance to catch up with people from back home, via Facebook, Skype ect! Or to do whatever else we wanted 
Monday was another day on Admin for me, which turned into a day of helping out for a quarter of the day in a Primary lesson, making a collage of the kids making Playdough and then the rest of my time in the Primary Library helping put books away and even learning to ‘cover’ books with this weird covering thing, which took ages and was frustrating to get used to initially haha! It was soon the end of the working day for me and meant I could go home and relax for the rest of the afternoon/ evening. My attempt at going to sleep early didn’t last long with me being woken up with 2 Volunteers screaming and my door opening being told theres something in the house! So i ended up jumping out of bed, thinking their was something big in the house and interesting, but instead their was a beetle attached to one of the volunteers clothes, so i grabbed the first towel I seen and wacked it off her, along with accidently catching her slightly with the towel (but don’t panic, she wasn’t harmed during this haha!). Next I came face-to-face with a frog in a bedroom in the house, so homing in on my intelligence and quick thinking, I grabbed a cup and placed it over the frog, slid some paper underneath and discarded of the pest out side (again don’t panic, no animals were hurt during this process).
Tuesday came with me being on ‘Club & Culture’ and also ‘Boarding’ again. In Club & Culture I helped out with the cooking class, helping them make chocolate cake, which the teacher was worried about as the whole class consisted of boys, but they finished early and behaved better than expected and they even shared some of their cake with the us volunteers who helped out! It was actually pretty good! Then came boarding, starting off helping a couple of the boarders out with their homework and then playing a bit of Table Tennis after. After work, a couple of us went for a session at the gym and on our way (which is about a 30 second walk) saw some wild Kangaroo’s - which was a first for me and Sarah!
Wednesday (today) I was on the morning/ day shift, starting off sorted homework folders out for the boarding students and delivering them to their lessons, before going to a Primary class, which ended up cutting pictures out of students and what they did during January and putting them onto a big piece of card! I also helped out in a Middle School lesson, assisting a student with their ‘writing’ test, helping explain what they had to do, which is different to exams I remember taking in the UK, where people weren’t allowed help like this during their tests, so initially I didn’t really know how much help I could give, until the teacher came over and explained. After lunch a couple of us Volunteers stayed with a Prep and Year 1 class, starting off in the Library, where I ended up reading a couple of books to a few of the students before taking them off to Music, helping the Prep year students learn the songs they have to sing, whilst having them climb all over you is pretty hard, but it’s a laugh as they always seem amazed about you being there!
