After much confusion about what we were all going to do on Australia Day, we decided to postpone celebrations until the next day, Friday.
But, being Australia Day, many of the volunteers still wanted to celebrate at the Blue House and stream the Hottest 100. I, along with a couple others, did go to school however. Personally, I would have felt bad for not going: I came to experience education in the Maldives and assist the students in learning English. Sure, the fact that it was the Maldives was a pretty big drawcard, but if I was there to spend time at the school, then that's what I was going to do.
School was a completely different experience from the previous day. My teacher was very pleased that I had done maths from the textbook with the students, which was good. I was also asked to do more speaking (reading out spelling and number facts) so the kids could get used to accents. It was quite funny watching the kids screw up their faces to figure out the spelling word I had just said.
After school and lunch I went back to the Blue House to cool down (ie. swap the long skirt and t-shirt for shorts and a singlet) and listen to the remainder of the countdown. Wearing less clothing didn't help whatsoever, so Nicole and I retired to the kareoke room (ie. the air-conditioned movie room) to watch tv and make the gifts we were going to give to the children, origami koalas.
At 6pm a few of us went to see the sunset again. It would have been a great sunset, if not for the giant cloud that compeltely masked the sun. Some of the local boys joined us and again, we stayed there until dinner.
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