Fraser Coast Anglican College

Fraser Coast Anglican College is the school I am teaching at for the 2009 school year. There is approximately 780 students from K to 12. The school sits on 64 beautiful acres. The school is not one but many buildings throughout the campus. Each building is named after a native plant or tree in the area. Early in the morning you can see kangaroos on the main field. There are many birds also living in the area.
This is the main office building

my office for the year

This is the senior school math office. Our school is a sun safe school and everyone wears a hat. The hat I am wearing is called an Akurbra.

my office view

Some pictures of the middle school / senior school area. I see this area from my office desk.

view from the parking lot

From the parking lot you can see the main office and part of the school chapel.

Darwin sitting on the veranda

Darwin is whale watching from our front veranda. Too cheap to pay for the boat ride.

Our house in Australia

The front of our house. This is me getting ready to go to school. The flowers in the front here smell so wonderful. They remind us of lilacs. They may be a variety of lilacs but we are not sure.

Local visitors

Some of the local wild life that come and visits us. Darwin gave these guys some cookies.

Bundaberg

We spent February 6th weekend in a town called Bundaberg which is about 1 ½ hours north of Hervey Bay. We went specifically to partake in the turtle hatching and escorting the little turtles to the ocean, but it was all booked up (so we are going the next weekend Feb 12th and we have a booking). We also wanted to go snorkeling to an area called Coral Cove but as you can see from the pictures the waves were far too rough for us non-swimmers

Bargara Beach

We went to a small beach town called Bargara Beach (which is where the turtle hatching is) and played in the ocean. People were also practicing their surfing. The waves were very powerful at times and sent us sometimes as far as 5 or 10 feet.

School swimming carnival

On Tuesday February 10th the school had a swimming carnival for grades 8 – 12. It went all day. The weather was perfect. You are never going to believe me when I tell you that 95% of the students attended the carnival (swim meet). It was a lot of fun. If you were not competing you were assisting or simply cheering your house team on. The theme was bath time.

This is the Bio teacher

we won

Our house team won the carnival. This is the team doing the team cheer. This is year three in a row that they have won. Go team go.