Our last week in Perth was almost entirely filled with year end activities and the dreaded good byes.
On the second last weekend, we managed to squeeze in a beach visit with the two other Canadian exchange families we met this year. We exchanged packing stories while the kids wrestled the surf one last time.
For the kids and their elementary school there was the graduation dance for the 6’s and 7’s and the presentation night for the whole school. It was absolutely amazing to see every class go up to stage and doa dance number. Liam’s class performed “Hip to be Square” and he completely owned the persona. Meaghan’s class danced the Timewarp. She was also selected to emcee the event and was awesome.
The kids had a teary eyed last day with their classmates signing their school shirts as is tradition. Diana took them to Adventure world as their “passing the year” expedition.
At Kelmscott, the highlight of the last three days was the staff-student soccer match which resulted in a come from behind victory by the staff.
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Our last weekend was a whirlwind of activity. Meaghan and her two running friends competed in one more race together at Challenge Stadium under the lights. Three PBs, three big smiles and one big sleepover. Saturday was a great party hosted by the O’Briens for us and the theme was an Aussie Christmas. A huge seafood buffet (lobster, shrimp, oysters) with a side order of turkey for us , was followed by jetskiing and tubing on the Canning river. On Sunday, Liam and Megs had one last hitout with their school friends , while Diana and I finished packing and cleaning up our Anomala homestead.
We drove to the airport under the same cloudless skies we arrived under eleven months ago. A final farewell to Perth and a KIA ORA (welcome) to New Zealand.
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