The ESL business is insecure and dodgy but I will never leave it to change into being a “real teacher” in the schools system.
I have a similar story about our Year 11 trip to the snow.
The place where we were staying (pretty sure it was The Station Resort) had a bar/nightclub. A few of us decided we would try our luck and go in. No ID checks were done so we had a few drinks.
After a bit a couple of the teachers spotted us but knowing that they weren’t supposed to be drinking either advised us to purchase some takeaway alcohol and go back to our cabins.
Good times.
One of my first jobs after finishing uni was being a casual teacher at Cambridge Public school. A lot of the children definitely weren’t sweet and loveable!
Still though, would never teach high school.
Our year 12 school trip to Manly Beach for an outing had two of my mates disappear into a pub on the way up the Corso where they spent their day.
After lunch one of the teachers (who was also the father of another mate) came up to me to ask where the first two wear. Don’t know what you’re talking about Sir.
We backed and forth before he tells me he just wants to go for a beer himself and doesn’t want to go into the same pub as my two mates!
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I remember in Year 12 we got a new Deputy Principal who decided that his first priority was to get us to wear school uniform.
First day this decree is implemented a whole heap of us are frog marched to the Deputy Principal’s office to explain why we didn’t go to school in uniform including me. I get there and he says; “I told you that you have to wear school uniform, so go home and don’t come back unless you’re wearing school uniform.”
You can imagine what happens, I go home, look around the place, can’t find a school uniform that is washed or ironed so stayed at home.
Next day I show up at School, the Deputy Principal sees me and asks why I didn’t return yesterday. “Well, you told me to go home and not come back unless I was in uniform. I didn’t have one so I couldn’t come back.”
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Malicious compliance is an art.
The planned opening of a $21.6 billion metro rail line which promises to reshape the CBD and dozens of Sydney suburbs has been shelved, with no new start date identified.
The government will not nominate a new opening date until all approvals are received, which may take several weeks. However, all bus route changes designed to align with the new metro line will come into effect on Sunday as planned.
That last bit doesn’t sound good. Weren’t they canning a bunch of express buses into the city because of the metro opening?
Yep. Couldn’t have scripted this better.
Peak NSW Government.
Fuckers.
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Metro announcements have already been updated anyways “The train to Sydenham will arrive on platform…” Destination sign on the front carriage also reads Sydenham instead of Chatswood.
Inconvenience aside it’s great that the regulator gave the state governments attempts to force an opening date the big 
Watching the marathon in Paris has given me flashbacks of the Sydney Olympics marathon in 2000. Remember they painted that blue line on the road for the runners to follow. For years afterwards, you would see random sightings of it while you were in town. So random question, is there any section of the blue line left or has it all been lost to Father Time?
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They removed the final parts a few years ago. Ridiculous they didn’t keep it.
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Out at Olympic Park there remains a bit.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFyo9yLDwLB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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It’s good they kept a part of it, it’s important to keep some of our city’s history. Shame there isn’t any left in the CBD but fair enough I guess with all the road works over the years
There was one edition of the Sydney Street Directory that had the blue line in it as a special interest feature which was pretty cool.
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I guess they finally gave in!
Seamless. 5 stars. Would ride again. 
It was amusing seeing a stack of people all hop off at the new Victoria Cross station all looking around for signage simultaneously like “where the fuck do I go now?”… but easy enough to find the correct exit.
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I work near Martin place but can nick over to North Sydney for a quick lunch now if I wanted to. It’s only 3 mins apparently. Even less to Barangaroo. This new addition is going to be great if it’s administered properly
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