It's hard to believe I only have a month left in Australia. Since my return from Alice Springs, I've gotten back into my regular schedule. I'm still involved in the breakfast club and recording the number of children and the age of the children that take advantage of our breakfast table set up in front of the main office. Last week I helped out with a disability creche. I helped watch six children with varying disabilities while their parents attended a support meeting. They meet once a fortnight (every two weeks) so I'm looking forward to keeping up with that as well.
At the op shop I'm still sorting through clothes and helping out with anything else they need. Currently we're preparing for a big garage sale and Christmas Hampers which is a lot like the Holiday Shoppe at Wartburg, but is more focused on clothing than toys.
With the next two weeks I'll be keeping busy. I'm looking forward to another disability creche. I do a home visit each Monday with another social work student placed at Ingle Farm. We go to help out a family with five kids for a few hours in the morning. We've planned to teach them more about both the U.S. and China where my fellow social work student is from. We're planning on making some sort of typical food from each of our countries and teaching them a bit of geography and give them an idea of main customs and such.
The first weekend of November I'm going to Melbourne to get an idea of the culture in Victoria. It will be a short trip, but by the time I get back to Adelaide I'll really be on the last leg of my trip and seeing as much as I can before it's over.
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