Red means STOP!...if you want to

Friday YAY!! Tonight there is a birthday party happening for one of the foreigners who lives in the next town too, so a real Friday night! I have to work this Sunday. There is an open day for parents to come and watch the classes. I don't have to do any of them classes, but I do still have to be here. But I get Monday off. My classes today were heaps better than yesterday. After the year 6 class yesterday arvo I had to give them a big lecture about how to have fun. Hopefully they'll be better next week... I just remembered something funny. When I was going over to the kindy on Tuesday to say Gday and introduce myself to the kids I was accompanied by the principal. The kindy at this school is on the other side of the river so we had to cross a couple of streets on the way, but they are only tiny backstreets. The principal actually pressed the pedestrian crossing light and waited for it to turn green. The street was only about 4 metres wide, there were no cars in sight, and we had to stand there waiting for the green man. It was hilarious. On the way back he said "This street is very dangerous". Oh yes? It's biazarre how they stick to the rules like that even when no one is watching. Often, in the cities, when I am stopped by a red light but there are no cars anywhere I will just walk across the road. As a pedestrian I treat traffic lights as a serving suggestion. If there are no cars coming, I'm not going to wait. Usually, if there is another person standing there waiting when I arrive at the crossing they will follow me across the road. But if I hadn't come along and walked in front of them, they would stand there waiting for the green man. Baa Baa!