August 3rd
Have not published anything in here for a while life has been fairly busy with lots of school commitments.
Prior to the recent school holidays I was away for a week on Year 10 camp as the head chef for the 60+ students and staff that attended. Below are the Year 12's that went week 1 of camp without me as well as two of the senior leaders that assisted with the camp. It is always a tough job trying to organise and get the food correct with the different food allergies sorted, as well training up the Year 11's who I took away with me this time to ensure they were doing things correctly and getting things done on time. They certainly learnt a lot from the experience and now hopefully understand what goes into the planning and prep for this sort of event.

During the holiday i was lucky to head to Japan with nine of our school students we attending Tokiwagi High School which is our sister school that we have been visiting for over 20 years. I was lucky enough to stay with the Principal and his family. Considering i know very little Japanese it was good for me to be immersed in the culture and try and pick up little phrases and words as i can. It was a tough trip though as i was dependent on my college to help a lot with the translation and when one of our students got sick and ended up being admitted to hospital he had to be there translating and dealing with the insurance claims. This left me dealing with the other eight students and the day to day dealings with them.

Above is the photo of the kids at one of the temples that we traveled to, while the speech is my introduction that i had to do to the staff on the first morning, which was very intimidating and scary as. During my visit to Tokiwagi i also stayed with the Chemisty Teacher Minako and i taught her how to make the traditional lolly Hokey Pokey, she was so excited about it and said she will try and make it with her classes. Can't wait to see how it goes. I will put up a photo when i have downloaded them all.

I am now back at school and it's week two preparing myself for the Leadership Camp and the School Ball