my good deed, apparently..

hello aus!
so straight after the kids got on the bus i came inside got ready and met lauren at her seven year olds school for there multicultural, learn about another country day, and of course we had to be the guest speakers for australia. well lauren was, but she dragged me along because she is a scaredy cat.
so we get there and this teacher shows us to the classroom we would be in.
so here i am under the impression that we were just going to be talking to keinan's class and then going home, but ohhh noooo, we had to talk to every grade one class, for about forty five minutes each, about the same thing, every time from nine until three.
we read the story 'magic possum' to them - its so cute, and grandma used to read it to chloe and i.
then we had a bucket full of  paper with questions on them for the kids to ask.
then we went through some "aussie slang", it was such bull. like half the "slang" we supposedly use i hadn't even heard of.
then we showed them pictures of aussie animals, passed around aussie money (they were amazed that it was unrippable) talked about vegemite and then they sung the kookaburra song.. kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, merry merry blah blah you know the one, but anyway, then after that one verse they kept singing another two sections, and i am quite fairly sure that america just made it up, because i am also fairly sure that we didn't even learn it when we were young and we are from australia.
so it was a loooong and tiring day but it was more fun then expected. and it was my good deed for the week, and karma should be good to us and make for a super weekend.
then as soon as i got home the kids pretty much walked in the door and we went to swap our cans and bottles for money.
you know in south australia the five cent refund thing? well its the same for connecticut.
and so we took our hundreds of cans and went to the machines at stop & shop where you put them in and then when your done it gives you a ticket which you then go and switch for money.
well it took bloody forever to put them all in the machine and the kids were going stir crazy but eventually i got it done. and a couple of hotties turned up which made it a hell of alot better ;)
so then we came home, the kids went to their dads and i am now chilling in my room.
i skyped with mum too.
oh and tomorrow will be my 50th post! can you believe it has already been 50 days.
but i won't be posting since i will be partying in new york city babyyyyy!
i shall catch you all up on sunday morning.
love you all! miss you! x