Hmm... I have done some really exciting things recently. Well, exciting may not be the best descriptor, they have certainly been fun though! I started volunteer work at a primary school. It was such fun the Friday I started! I am helping out in a grade 1 and 2 composite class. Some of the kids had drawn pictures of what they thought I would look like, and some had written, and decorated, my name. Then they stuck them to the door as a welcome - it was so gorgeous!! They are some of the sweetest kids I have ever met. At the start of the day I got welcomed into the class with a Q&A (1. What is my favourite colour? 2. What is my favourite animal? 3. What is my favourite food? 4. Do I like makeup? Orange, cats, pizza and sometimes) and a performance (they learn Italian so they did a song in Italian with hand actions!). I helped out with a spelling test (yes, back to putting words in sentences: "The grass is green" - it was Gr words this week). I got to play Celebrity Heads (they didn't know who Winnie the Pooh was...) and was taught to play Yahtzee by a 7-year-old! All in all it was an excellent day. And I am now totally and seriously considering studying Primary Education at University. I'm thinking either Deakin University or Melbourne University (and at Melb I would be the last year of intake because of the Melbourne Model). So yes, I think I may be on my way to knowing what "career" I would like.
And it was the Apollo Bay Music Festival last weekend. It was so much fun! I was only there for Saturday and Sunday, I was at the primary school on Friday, then worked Friday evening, so I didn't get down 'til Saturday - and then I was really worn out from the day before... But it was great fun. The highlights were: Cornerstone Roots (great reggae/roots), De Jah Groove (very cool to dance to) and Sweethearts (the band from the high school I went to, they probably performed the best I have ever seen them). Yep, a brilliant, but very tiring, weekend!
And today is ANZAC Day. So: lest we forget.
And, I just realised, I let my last post - my 100th post - go by with no celebrations. So I just wanted to mention it. This is officially post number 101! Wow!
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Enjoying life, thankyou very much!
About Me
- Jem
- I'm in my fourth year of teaching prep (aka kindergarten). I absolutely love it! It is my dream job.
At the moment
- Reading: Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
- Listening: Barack Obama's presidential acceptance speech
- Hoping: I pass my exam next Monday
- Feeling: Lazy
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1 comment:
Congratulations on your 100th post!
With regards to universities, I suppose there are pros and cons to each.. but I can give you a bit of a rundown on Melbourne Uni (surely Megan has already though).
People say bad things about it: it's snobby, it's a day care centre for private school brats, et cetera. The first one can be true, but it is the minority and these people aren't worth our time anyway. The second thing can be true in first year, but I noticed something: first year subjects are harder and more confronting than later year subjects, in what seems to be an effort to 'weed' people out who don't want to be there.
Apart from that, you feel like you're at Hogwarts every day, the hippyish Food Co-op make brilliant muffins, there are wonderful opportunities for writers and photographers to be published(you are both!), and I go there! *laughs*
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