Today is officially my last day of OISE. My B.Ed is finished, in two weeks there'll be a graduation ceremony which I'm not going to 'cause I hate those things, and by the end of June I should have my teaching qualification. YAY! Won't feel like I've finished until I get that.

I've applied to three jobs so far - one of them is at a school that's only two years old and was named after a famous Canadian humanitarian. I'd love to work there (the public schools here are amazing and progressive in their non-academic achievements; I mean, the things the kids do on global issues and current affairs etc. Extra-curricular, some of it) but I don't think my cover letter was very inspiring. *sigh* If only I'd gone to Kenya for my internship - but then I wouldn't be here for the job postings anyway.

I'm going back to Pathways next week, to help the students finish their soft toys and help out with tutoring. Two more weeks to the school year and then they have exams. And by that, I mean even the grade 10s have exams! This country is very big on exams - it's scary.

I have a scene from a movie stuck in my head and for the life of me I can't remember from the film is - it's a little bit old now, but I think it was popular. American, I'm pretty sure. Can't remember the storyline but the scene in my head is about a missing kid and they think he fell down the well, and the main character says something like "he's hiding in the barn, it's just a prank" and lo and behold, three days later they find him hiding in the barn and it was just a prank - which proved to the other main character some big truth. UGH. Was it Twelve Monkeys? I'm trying to think of movies where a character time travels.

I stole these photos from Mum's flickr site, since I'm not in Tassie to take my own: introducing my niece, Tamsyn, born on the 11th of May:



She's sleeping, not crying, in case you were wondering. She's so cute! After 14 hours of labour, you'd want a cute little bundle of joy to make up for it wouldn't you! I love the little jumper she's wearing; my sister knitted it for her before she was born. Aaaaaaand this is me Dad with his first grandchild :D

I finished the elephant (decided against adding the tusks cause they looked a bit stupid) and stuffed it - and was rather shocked to see how big it turned out!



I sewed Tamsyn's name on the side - if you click on it you'll get a bigger image to see it better. If I did it again I'd do marker stitches to guide my way, cause three letters in I realised the name was starting to go down the elephant's leg instead of across it's side. Whoops! Ah well.

Just to give some context on its size, I took a photo of me holding it (I felt a bit silly, but). Yeah, it's twice the size of the baby! Will probably scare the crap out of her. First time sewing something and it looks ridiculous. I am a failure.

Let's hope the monkey works out a bit better...