Mardi at BB

Yesterday, Friday July 28, I was able to bring Mardi to have a quick look at the control room and eviction area of Big Brother. Visits like that are always short but it was nice to have her there and let her see where I have been couped up in for the past three and a half months.

That night was the last Friday Night Live and it was a really good one, the tower they had to jump off was a fitting end for the games. There are no more tasks now, no more games, no more farm animal chores and no more fines. The game is over, now we just wait for the finale...

Teacher for a day

On Tuesday 18th of July I was a guest teacher at Clontarf Beach State School, talking to a year 11 class about film production. I prepared quite a number of different things to talk about but once in there I realised I would have to go with the flow as getting the students attention was not always easy, especially because all they wanted to talk about was 'Big Brother'.

It's interesting that whenever people find out that I work on the show, they always ask the exact same question... "Are you Big Brother?"

The students were quite nice but often rowdy and talked amongst themselves when I was trying to talk. As I am not a teacher it was up to their own teacher, who sat there the whole time, to keep them in line. There were two blonde girls who seemed to sit at the back throughout the class and just do their own thing. How rude. Apart from them, the rest were pretty good.

It's amazing how little free time teachers actually get. When I was in the staff room eating lunch with other Art Department teachers, they were constantly interupted by students knocking on the door and wanting things, despite a very clear sign saying that teachers are not to be contacted during lunch.

The students seem to know nothing but trashy Hollywood films like 'White Chicks', 'Scary Movie' etc - junk cinema. When they asked me what I liked I said '2001', '400 Blows'. 'Grapes of Wrath', Lawrence of Arabia'... and I was met by blank stares. Okay, '400 Blows' might be a bit obscure for them, but they seem incapable of seeing anything other than idiotic racist movies from the US.

Anyway, I did have a good time though, being a teacher wasn't all that bad.

I recently saw 'Munich', Chaplain's 'The Kid', 'March of the Penguins', 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'.