First Day of Aussie School

G'day,

Today was my first day in the classroom.  Absolutely brilliant.  The school far surpasses the above average school in the States.  It far surpasses Spring Arbor, my old high school and probably your old high school which sucked no doubt. 

It is the best school I have been to.  It boasts a full staff of 30 or so with, as far as I have seen and bee told, no drama.  Maybe some unrequited love, but that is just a hunch. 

Every classroom has a smart board, in addition to a white board.  Remember those rooms that had partitions that divided the room and could be moved to make it two smaller rooms into one big room?  Yeah, those are here.  AND THEY WORK.  Aussie partitions are Better than Nicki Minaj. American partitions are not.
The school is also a series of buildings tucked on the side of a hill surrounded by trees which are filled with birds. The school has doubled in size in the last few years (now weighing in at 400 or so students) and has a fairly deep waiting list with new buildings currently under construction.  As long as the school doesn't grow too fast, I can see it reaching a healthy size of 500-700 students while still maintaining it's integrity.

I am extremely disappointed with every toilet I have interacted with.  I was so highly anticipating the toilet bowl swirel antithesis to our American toilets that since I have been let down I can barely force myself to go to the bathroom anymore.

Instead of a directly opposing spiral of water, I am given this: at the topmost part of the bowl, that is, the portion farthest away from the user, the water begins to rush when flushed.  In a horseshoe like pattern it rushes around the bowl in both directions until it bashes into the twin stream from the other direction and falls towards the waste in a cascade of disappointment. 

I still haven't gotten a power converter for my laptop, so I'm sort of digitally stranded.  I'm using my host family's computer... host family.  I sound like a parasite. 

I'll be teaching MacBeth and Sylvia Plath this year.  The Aussie students love my accent, so I don't think I'll have to actually read anything.  They'll just be fascinated with my American words.

Oh and before I sign off, I wanted to let those that it concerns know that in one of my classes, we watched GATTACA.  GATTACA is better than Nicki Minaj because Nicki Minaj saves something for the swim back.


Cheers,
Melmoth


P.S.
Matt.  There are over 2000 species of Spider in Australa.