The rollercoaster called 'life'

The past few days i've been teaching at the SEDS school. What was meant to be me teaching PE and being the librarian has lead me to become a Hindi, Telugu, Science, Maths and Arts and Craft teacher haha. There's alot of books here in the library, but alot of them are 4th hand maybe 5th hand - hand me downs. Theres a collection of readers digest from 2007.....no kid is going to read it. So im determined and my ocd has come out to sort out every single book so the kids actually want to come into the library and read books - books which are actually suitable for them. we also going to trial a borrowing system where kids can take books home to read to encourage reading english, but we'll see how that goes.

I've entitled this blog 'the rollercoaster called 'life'', as life is unpredictable and you just have to journey with it. The above paragraph gave a glimpse of how things are just unpredictable. there are highs and lows. We went and visited my fellow colleagues at their placement just randomly a few days ago. it was so so so good to see them, even though we didnt get to talk privately much and actually ask how they are going, but all in all it was so so good. We hadnt seen each other for over a month. It was good to compare our placements and hear what theyve been up to, where they're staying etc. we always have to compare food and internet capabilities haha.

But a low has happened only recently. My colleague Cait has left back to brisbane as she was called home due to a family emergency. Her dad's health isnt good. I've been supporting her as much as i could during our month here, but reality had struck when she needed to go home. It was very sad to say goodbye to her....everyone at SEDS misses her, even the students as she introduced chatterboxes to the kids for arts and crafts and they went mental for them. She also did crosswords with manil and that really helped destress manil and gave her some leisure time. Even tonight manil said she couldnt do the crosswords. its really hit us hard. SEDS is like family and now one of the family has temporarily gone home. But we know she'll be back, she wants to come back. They've even left her room the same for her wen she gets back. We chatted about cait over the dinner table and then the pain of what the founding family of SEDS has been through came out. The amount of pain, ordeal, anger, frustration, confusion etc here is just incredible, i truly have never experienced anything like it. Yet, some crazy reason thats why i feel that i am here and my role here, to be a listening ear and perhaps something more.



Just an update: Cait's father passed away before she could arrive to see him. Prayers for the family and her would be appreciated. we all share in her grief here at seds