Week of "firsts" in Australia

Thursday morning at 8.35.
"Why are you standing here?" young school girl asked me.
"Well, I'm waiting for that tuck shop lady to not be so busy," I answered.
"Why?" she continued, and seemed to be very curious of me.
"I'm going to go and help her but just want to wait when she is not so busy to ask how I can get inside."
"I think you should hold those (pointing at some hand rails) and swing your legs through the hole." I smiled. That was one solution to my problem but I knew there was a door which I thought was better way to get in. So I answered back to the little curious girl:
"I think there's a door that I can use." She went to have a look on the side and came back saying: "Yes there is, go on then." The lady noticed me and asked me in. This is how my first volunteer day started in Australia in the school tuck shop.

Tuck shop, to the ones that don't know, is like a school canteen or shop. This is where you can buy your lunch or breakfast or snack during school day. Your lunch order is prepared daily and there's lots to choose from. Recently our schools tuck shop ladies retired and a new lady took the job. She is now running the tuck shop on her own.They have already told in the school newsletter that they are going to hire another tuck shop lady and that's why I thought of volunteering there first to see if I could do it. 

It was a manic day, not knowing what I was doing but trying to get my head around so that I  could be helpful. I left the tuck shop smiling that day. I thought it was fun and interesting way to work in a school and something I haven't ever done before. I'm sure I'll write more about it later.

Earlier that week, on Monday, we had something exciting planned. A photo shoot. Yes, a photo shoot of our family on the beach in Australia. This was for a Finnish bank magazine that wanted to do an article about a Finnish family abroad and our story was picked. We had such a fun time shooting these photos. It was an Australian photographer who came here to take the photos and we spend 3 hours with him. Never done that before, will post a pic later when we get them...

On Tuesday we went to see a homeopath. Our son has warts in his legs and they are quite painful to walk on. He has had them about 5 or 6 months and we went to a pharmacy to try and find something to help his pain. The pharmacist asked what were our thoughts about homeopath and we said that we were willing to find out. So she called the homeopath in town she knew and next thing, we had an appointment to see her. So on Tuesday, after school, we went to see this lady. She was very kind and helpful and we had a nice chat and she explained what she would do if our son would choose to go to her. We left her house, first visit to homeopath ever, knowing a little bit more about the subject but still not sure if we wanted do that. Later that week his warts started to look a bit better. It could've been the freezing method starting to kick in, that we've used, or my mother-in-laws advice that we tried this week. Which ever, I hope they will fall off and the pain can be rid off.