SASS' DIARY : DAY EIGHTEEN

Longreach – Mt Isa
Monday 20th
Driving all night.. kids crashed all over the bus half sleeping .. a dead kangaroo…
We reached sunny Longreach breakfasted and stretched in the park as Nigel organised a visit to the local high school. Having received an ok we scooted off to wash the bus and landed ourselves in the coach bay out the front for recess. Kids were hesitant at first but once a few came out and started doing handprints more became interested (until in the end there were a few too many and prints ended up on our lights, windows, etc..)
Some of us wandered inside, a few of us manned an info stall – we got lots of interest and were able to share lots of info both verbal and textual.. It was a really good action, the best yet, I think. Polly had organised reporters to come to the school, but out wires were crossed and we were at a different school, sadly. But a reporter cam and photographed us after the event anyway…
We trundled down the road and the engine began to overheat, so we stopped, fed him water, only to have it happen again almost immediately. So, waiting for things to cool, we has a “What’s disturbing us and how it could be solved” – issues like personal decision making and initiative versus consensus decision making, communication issues, living together..
We puttered along, stopping to cook dinner, fighting off an insect invasion at a truck “don’t sleep and drive” stop. Then went off into the night driving.