#aussie school

I’m also in New South Wales.

Which means that Teachers are on strike today.

(Or at least the ones in my area)

like im talking primary school but there’s a couple reasons

we had this thing with a local wildlife rescue person that basically meant we had like 3 school wallabies (aka tiny kangaroos for the americans) and like they were meant to be for the year sixes to take care of but somehow my year 5 ass got into it the most because it was a split class. but year they all had names and their own blankets we wrapped them in to feed.

our choir was fucking massive in relation to the school like out of 300 odd kids 50 were in the choir. the choir only let year 3-6 be in it as well so thats like 50/150. also they took us out of classes for prac like i missed so much math because i was singing abba.

we legit went on an excursion that was ‘lets walk around the town and talk about it’ like we even had a tour of the shitty public highschool of the area and say their production of ‘how the grinch stole christmas’ in like july. 

in my last year i ended up becoming ‘friends’ with my music teacher because i was completely socially excluded thanks to some bs. wed walk around the oval on his duty days and talk about how much we could sell the galahs in a tree for.

my class did a production for assembly that was legit ‘cinderella meets abba’ and it was just cinderella but instead of the actual music we sang abba songs. i got to sing ‘money, money, money’ as pre-ball cinderella btw and rocked it.

we had factions/houses and for some reason we did full on hogwarts style ‘five points to red for picking up litter’ and we had collection boxes and wed read out the weekly winner at assembly and the overall winner got free ice-creams at the end of the year. i never realised this was weird until i found out no other school in the area did it like that.

we had an area of bush behind the library that was just free space to fuck about in. but like australia??? snakes??? it never came up for some reason

also we had school tadpoles in a pond

Our school song had a line ~bring a smile and a hat but don’t you bring no gun~

Just to be clear this is Australia where gun ownership is a lot more regulated than in america so it’s really weird.