Barunga and beyond

Well, Baruga CEC (community education centre) as a school was ok. Baruga CEC as a place to stay... well...

As I said in my last post, we were thinking that we could bunk with a teacher - who hadn't been told and unsurprisingly had a few things to say about the situation. So we stayed in the kitchen, with an industrial fridge that had a correspondingly loud industrial fan system. Oooo, and the light.
But the main problem staying there was that it seemed to be the local meeting place for all the local males between 16-25. And our toilet/shower was across the other side of the oval. So I avoided having a shower but eventually was driven across the oval for other requirements... a few comments but nothing much. Then while i was in the (bolted) receptacle, someone was hitting the ground and wall with what sounded like a metal pole and although they didn't really hang around, needless to say i didn't feel particularly great about it. So i brushed my teeth in the kitchen sink.

The day itself went pretty well. As always, the kids were loads of fun and they focused pretty well. The principal forgot that Auskick were turning up so at lunchtime the local coppers turned up and ran the kids through a few excercises, played British bulldog and a game of AFL and we expected them to come visit the Maths Squad after. Then we waited. And waited. And looked outside as another group, the Sunshine Health group, cut in on our racket.
The kids up here have to do exercises and every morning their routine involves washing hands, coughing and blowing their nose because a lot of them have severe snot issues. No, seriously. Snot everywhere on some of these kids. And unfortunatly, an excess of snot in your head can lead to conductive hearing loss, which means the kids have periodic hearing loss - so you can imagine how much that would screw with their schooling and other things.
So yay for the Sunshine Health group.

Decided to move base to Katherine, bout 45min drive away, rather than stay in Barunga. Got to drive to Beswick tommorrow morning where i'm hoping to meet someone who can tell me about the spirits that live in the sky and remove the livers of babys when they scream - i guess it's the traditional way of explaining SIDS. Saw a painting of them and the local artist lives in Beswick so will try to track him down.

Oh, and am gonna steal one of Rich's ideas and post my own little riddle...

How can you add two to eleven and get one?