My afternoon

Well, I had an interesting afternoon :-) I spent 3 hours talking non stop to two groups of 20 school students (most of them about 14 years old)......god, how exhausting!!! I don't know how school teachers do it every day!

Anyway, the short story is that one of our friends (Monique) is a school teacher in Boxmeer and she invited me to visit her English classes to talk to the kids about Australia (luckily all in English!) They are busy with some kind of backpacker project so I went and spoke to them about life in Australia. I even had some funny "props" to keep them entertained - a snowdome of the Sydney Opera House, a mini stuffed platypus, a stubby holder with some aboriginal art on it, and a couple of calendars with some nice photos of various landscapes.

It was pretty funny actually.....most of them were quite interested and had some good questions about our history, politics, culture, aboriginals etc etc But some were so not into it - gotta love those cheeky 14 year old boys who just clearly want to get out of the classroom and enjoy their weekend.

But I had fun there anyway :-D

Alli xxx