Yirara Happenings Term 3 2009

This year, rather than just watching the Henley on Todd (see earlier blogs from last year), Yirara took some fellas down and competed in the event. They built their boat, but then got really excited and entered other events. A good day for all the fellas and great publicity for the school. The single sculls.

Can't remember what this event is called.

Our boat flying along.

The parade through the Todd Street Mall.

The start of the parade with our ferious rivals "The Navy" in from. These blokes are from the ship "Arunta".

Kieran, Jason and Troy (Big St Kilda fan).

These girls were leading the Desert Festival Night Parade for Yirara. All the work done by the students.

A Spider made by the students and teachers. It took a whole term to build. The eyes glowed.

With the Footy Academy, we took 2 of my PE lessons for the term to cut, dice and make some soup. We then delivered to 3 of the Town Camps surrounding Yirara. The people of the camps were very appreciative and very good for the fellas to give something back. Quite confronting for some of them. Unfortunately, some of the conditions in the camps are not something you would expect in Australia and is part of the reason for the government offering to take them over ($110 million). It is not a time to blame (and there are many groups/organisations/people/departments to blame)...I think the problem just needs to be fixed and change the conditions these people are living in.

Dust Storm

I hope you people on the East Coast enjoyed the Dust Storm we sent over. I haven't had many emails or phone calls for awhile, so this was just to remind you we are still here. Here are some photos from Uluru.

Senior Class Sport and Recreation Camp

The beautiful surrounds of Hamilton Downs (1 hour from Alice Springs) was the location of the Sport and Recreation Camp I helped organise and run. With the support of Batchelor Institute we took the kids through a Certificate 1 in Sport and Recreation.

This is me "teaching" the girls how to cook Roo tail.

Awesome...nearly ready. Good meat. No vegetarians allowed.

Taking the skin off..indigenous style!

The Senior class with the teachers.