18 September...Cairns AFL Granny......Yes!!.....and farewells

When you sit the night before and watch your national AFL team get slaughtered in the finals by a team that, traditionally ....if you don't barrack for them.....you don't like.....it becomes cathartic to witness clockwork precision and to experience the sensational uplifting emotions created when you watch your local AFL team play the next day and take the game to the final siren as WINNERS!!!

Geelong Cats.....next year might be your year.....

CAIRNS SAINTS........ 2010 IS YOUR YEAR.........GREAT WORK GUYS.....YOUR CHEER SQUAD ARE SO PROUD OF YOU! CELEBRATE WELL BECAUSE YOU DESERVE TO!!

Today was tainted with some sadness for me as I had to say farewell to some very special people.
I have valued their friendship and their professionalism during the time I have taught at St Andrew's College. 

I started my day doing coffee with a friend who did camp with me last year and from then we have shared lots of laughs and fun times. Wendy, your year 8's will be my link with SACC and my girls at SEGA....providing the internet is viable!! Thanks heaps for your friendship and for taking me to the footy today because, without your generosity, I wouldn't have been able to get there......

Sitting amongst the Saints cheer squad, and some very treasured friends, felt so familiar to me as I could easily have been amongst my Victorian friends cheering for my own boys....
Hearts pumping.....palms sweating....voices strained....CHANTING..... CHEERING....... CHANTING...CHEERING.....but the final score said it all....

SAINTS:    118           defeated     PORT DOUGLAS:   80

Farewell my dear friends.....Thanks for the fantastic memories!