Back to School! (21.10.2008)

For the first time in Hanne and Julie Blog History, Julie and I are blogging simultaneously. Because we have so much to write about Bourke and so little time before we leave for new adventures, we are blogging about every other day. That means Julie is writing about Monday as we speak, and I have no clue what she writes. As Monday and Tuesday was two very different days, it really doesn't matter, I'm just curious :P

Tuesday started early enough, still sick, but as we got up early one would think we had a lot of time to shower, get dressed and eat breakfast. Julie managed to do them all, I got two out of three and ended up getting honey everywhere..

We were off to Bourke High School for our work experience, carrying a lunch box larger than life, but it was all good fun. We went on a tour of the premises and had a couple of classes. Our first class was an Aboriginal language class (To dance is pirrka pirrka in Wangjakumurri). I ended up sitting next to Phillip Wright, a thirteen-year-old with an emu-totem. He had made an Aboriginal version of Monopoly with Brewarrina Mission in place of the usual Jail.

We had other classes as well: Art, Civics, English and P.E. The worst part was Civics with 12-14 year-olds desperately trying to locate Europe on the map. Actually, the tried to locate any continent on a map and managed to write down Africa twice.

The evening was spent playing Mastermind and WordUp, we both won a fair amount of times until Julie had an insane round of Mastermind and got lucky as anything..