Showing posts with label Schooling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Schooling. Show all posts
Friday, October 02, 2009
Saturday, June 20, 2009
About a year ago we discovered that one of our American friends was (and still is lol) a fully trained and degree qualified health educator and as a result, a group of us decided to organise a class for our girls.
The class was, Puberty from your Toes to your Nose! and is designed for tweens (roughly 8-12 years old) girls.
In Australia, when my friends and I grew up, puberty was a taboo topic. You worked it out yourself and it was never discussed, at home or at school. In light of this, we wanted it to be different for our girls, plus having professional help and a group setting made it a hilariously fun time for the girls.
The classes started with the moms and daughters together and then we separated and all worked through different activities. We could hear the girl’s screams of laughter through the closed doors when the green food dye in bowls of water, eyedroppers, tampons and pads came out. The classes worked through all the physical and emotional changes that occur though out puberty and how to cope with them. The subjects were all handled in a frank and professional manner and were completely age appropriate.
The class finished with the girls making beautiful cards for the moms and the mums presenting the girls with bouquets. The girls all received a goody bag each and a copy of this book: My Body, My Self by Lynda and Area Madaras.
The classes were a huge success; we have decided to do follow up courses on female reproductive health and the big S education later on in the year. Our friend has many years of experience and can run small group courses (min 5 max 15 girls per group) or tailor it for schools. If you or friends are interested, please feel free to email me for contact details.
The class was, Puberty from your Toes to your Nose! and is designed for tweens (roughly 8-12 years old) girls.
In Australia, when my friends and I grew up, puberty was a taboo topic. You worked it out yourself and it was never discussed, at home or at school. In light of this, we wanted it to be different for our girls, plus having professional help and a group setting made it a hilariously fun time for the girls.
The classes started with the moms and daughters together and then we separated and all worked through different activities. We could hear the girl’s screams of laughter through the closed doors when the green food dye in bowls of water, eyedroppers, tampons and pads came out. The classes worked through all the physical and emotional changes that occur though out puberty and how to cope with them. The subjects were all handled in a frank and professional manner and were completely age appropriate.
The class finished with the girls making beautiful cards for the moms and the mums presenting the girls with bouquets. The girls all received a goody bag each and a copy of this book: My Body, My Self by Lynda and Area Madaras.
The classes were a huge success; we have decided to do follow up courses on female reproductive health and the big S education later on in the year. Our friend has many years of experience and can run small group courses (min 5 max 15 girls per group) or tailor it for schools. If you or friends are interested, please feel free to email me for contact details.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Iceberg cake
Chelsea's class has just completed a term topic study on Antarctica. The kids were paired up and had to research four topic questions and then present the results to the class in a fun and informative way. Chelsea and her BFF made an iceberg cake to tie in with the theme of what early explorers ate in the Antarctic.One child in the class has an egg allergy, so they created an egg and dairy free cake and transformed it into an iceberg floating in a sea of blue jelly with cute little penguins frolicking.
They had heaps of fun, and although we definitely won't be winning a cake decorating contest, it was a huge hit.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Mothering a boy
Boys are different.
As Ben gets older I am realising just how different they are from girls to parent.
Last year Ben spent the last term in grade one prep, this year he has started grade one. The changes in him are huge.
Gone is my snuggly baby/toddler, I now have a sweaty boy who comes home filthy every day and is energised by sport and activity- no more day sleeps or quiet time- it is full speed ALL DAY!
My word is not gospel any more, Ben justifies, reasons, pleads and discusses options- his options not mine.
This week I caught him wiping his nose on his school shirt, in public, he told me that he had to as the classroom had run out of tissues and it was all he could do except lick it. This reason did not stand with me as we weren't at school and I always have a hand bag full of tissues (boys have lots of snot).
Needless to say, a big box of tissues has been sent to school with him as well as strict instructions not to wipe his nose on his uniform.
As usual Mr funny bugger helped me discuss this with his son. His advise was to wipe his nose on the girls shirt, my shirt, his classmates shirts or his teachers shirt (sorry Ms C)....yes I am co parenting with a juvenile......
As Ben gets older I am realising just how different they are from girls to parent.
Last year Ben spent the last term in grade one prep, this year he has started grade one. The changes in him are huge.
Gone is my snuggly baby/toddler, I now have a sweaty boy who comes home filthy every day and is energised by sport and activity- no more day sleeps or quiet time- it is full speed ALL DAY!
My word is not gospel any more, Ben justifies, reasons, pleads and discusses options- his options not mine.
This week I caught him wiping his nose on his school shirt, in public, he told me that he had to as the classroom had run out of tissues and it was all he could do except lick it. This reason did not stand with me as we weren't at school and I always have a hand bag full of tissues (boys have lots of snot).
Needless to say, a big box of tissues has been sent to school with him as well as strict instructions not to wipe his nose on his uniform.
As usual Mr funny bugger helped me discuss this with his son. His advise was to wipe his nose on the girls shirt, my shirt, his classmates shirts or his teachers shirt (sorry Ms C)....yes I am co parenting with a juvenile......
iPod Touch
I am a late starter to technology. I have only just got the hang of sms!
I mentioned back in 2007 that I still got up and changed the CD in the player to listen to music.
It all changed at Christmas 2007 when the kids got a Wii. This was the start of a new era of embracing electrical devices.
Then GJ bought me a iPod for listening to my uni lectures and it was a hit, and so the girls got one for their birthdays.
For Christmas 2008 the kids got a Nintendo DS, now they don't have to be the "only kid in their group of friends with no technology".
Disclaimer: no DS at home or at school, only during travel time and when all homework and sport is done, yada yada yada.....
GJ did a little upgrade for me as a surprise Christmas present...an iPod Touch.
I did not think I needed this at all...but the more I use it the more I heart it lol.
I think GJ is also a little in love with it too. The iphones are still far too expensive for us to justify one, but it certainly is on GJ's wish list for 2010.
This model has wi fi so I can read and send emails, surf the web, share my photos as well listen to music and uni lectures (as long as I can connect to a wireless network, they are not 3G). I just have to work out which of my 16 204 stored songs I can cull down to the 7000 I can load at one time. I also need to find a decent cover, the only one I could find was a shocking pink one, I look like a socialite wannabe when I get it out.
I read a very interesting article in a Sydney paper about a school in Singapore using iPods as a teaching tool. Here are some information about schools trialling this new technology.
http://ipodject.pbwiki.com/schools
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=98595
http://www.apple.com/au/education/ipod/lessons/
When I looked around for a university to do a teaching degree with, I wanted to find one that was not stuck in the past with its methodology. Whilst I think the basics of literacy and numeracy are of crucial importance in education, I think the style of teaching needs to change to reflect what kids are like in the current digital age.
The uni I attend stresses the importance of understanding the world we currently live in as well as keeping up with the changes that are shaping the future.
I did some interesting subjects last year on how many current schools are designed and managed often the same way they were 50 to 100 years ago.
Here are some excerpts from my work:
There was a diverse array of information included within this topic. The first reading for topic six (Reimer, E.1971) was very startling. Reimer was comparing schools to total social institutions such as prisons, armies and insane asylums (pp: 24-25). ..
I realised that there must be a point for me to have read this chapter so I started to Google. I wondered how old Mr E Reimer was when he wrote this book and if his own education had coloured his perceptions on the role of schooling in society. Once I found the book reviews from amazon.com (appendix) I started to appreciate why we needed to read this chapter. Reimers view of schooling, while extremely radical, is very thought provoking and encourages the reader to look at schooling from a society’s point of view and rethink why we educate as we do. Reimer states that schooling promotes an institutional mindset, which stifles real learning. The school becomes a dominant force in the lives of students, conforming the student to society’s values and social hierarchies. One point of this article, a reference to data from Jerome Bruner, tied in well with the topic of motivation; the data suggests that the more relevant the environment is to the concept/lesson, the more effect it has (Reimer 1971). This relates to making the lesson more authentic, i.e. more relevant and interesting to the student in a real life situation. ..
The next reading, Re-Thinking Today’s Secondary Schools (Groundwater-Smith 2008), was a very different viewpoint: schools haven’t changed much over the last two hundred years, the look of the schools and even the subjects taught are the same. Styles of teaching come and go but learning still goes on. I have just completed an assignment on the effect the micro chip has had on society in the areas of communication, information and education for FDN115. In the last fifteen years micro chip technology has redefined how our society communicates and the amount of information that is available is astounding. For example, I was able to learn the relevance Reimers chapter in about two minutes using the internet. Even though technology has redefined most parts of society, schooling is still relatively the same as it was fifty to one hundred years ago in regards to its core subjects of literacy and numeracy...
The students of today and tomorrow need to be educated for careers that don’t even exist yet. Careers that a student might decide on early in their schooling could be obsolete before they graduate. Teachers of today need to set up strategies to encourage the students into a pattern of life long learning. The days of leaving school and getting a job and staying there for the whole of your career are gone. I discovered this six years ago when my highly sort after and extremely specialised, work skills were rendered useless by the advent of the digital camera. A once iconic company, Kodak, is now a mere shadow of its former self due to not keeping up with the rapidly changing technology. ..
As times change, schooling needs to change. Teachers need to be digital natives not digital immigrants. With all these new technologies the basic need for literacy is still present, but the understanding of the new applications is needed as well. The theme of the classroom still being the same as in the previous centuries has weaved through this entire unit. The slides from this lecture showed actual examples of how the classrooms are set out, the similarities are obvious. I think that by the time I graduate there will be a lot of changes. Most of the readings and references of the last few topics have all been written in the last few years, the focus of current research does seem to be shifting towards embracing the technological age. Embracing the future, becoming a ‘futurologist’ is the key to engaging students in life long learning and making them want to come to school every day. Modern schools need to embrace the new technologies into new multi-modal lessons, using technology to adapt traditional learning outcomes to outcomes that are suitable to a rapidly changing future.
It feels quiet strange to put some of uni papers on my blog. I have an invitation only blog that I publish all my uni work on, but I have been encouraged to share a bit more here by my two best proof readers/ critics/ experts lol.
So, using my female logic I have managed to justify my love of my new iPod touch with a genuine need for it, for educational purposes of course!
I mentioned back in 2007 that I still got up and changed the CD in the player to listen to music.
It all changed at Christmas 2007 when the kids got a Wii. This was the start of a new era of embracing electrical devices.
Then GJ bought me a iPod for listening to my uni lectures and it was a hit, and so the girls got one for their birthdays.
For Christmas 2008 the kids got a Nintendo DS, now they don't have to be the "only kid in their group of friends with no technology".
Disclaimer: no DS at home or at school, only during travel time and when all homework and sport is done, yada yada yada.....
GJ did a little upgrade for me as a surprise Christmas present...an iPod Touch.
I did not think I needed this at all...but the more I use it the more I heart it lol.
I think GJ is also a little in love with it too. The iphones are still far too expensive for us to justify one, but it certainly is on GJ's wish list for 2010.
This model has wi fi so I can read and send emails, surf the web, share my photos as well listen to music and uni lectures (as long as I can connect to a wireless network, they are not 3G). I just have to work out which of my 16 204 stored songs I can cull down to the 7000 I can load at one time. I also need to find a decent cover, the only one I could find was a shocking pink one, I look like a socialite wannabe when I get it out.
I read a very interesting article in a Sydney paper about a school in Singapore using iPods as a teaching tool. Here are some information about schools trialling this new technology.
http://ipodject.pbwiki.com/schools
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=98595
http://www.apple.com/au/education/ipod/lessons/
When I looked around for a university to do a teaching degree with, I wanted to find one that was not stuck in the past with its methodology. Whilst I think the basics of literacy and numeracy are of crucial importance in education, I think the style of teaching needs to change to reflect what kids are like in the current digital age.
The uni I attend stresses the importance of understanding the world we currently live in as well as keeping up with the changes that are shaping the future.
I did some interesting subjects last year on how many current schools are designed and managed often the same way they were 50 to 100 years ago.
Here are some excerpts from my work:
There was a diverse array of information included within this topic. The first reading for topic six (Reimer, E.1971) was very startling. Reimer was comparing schools to total social institutions such as prisons, armies and insane asylums (pp: 24-25). ..
I realised that there must be a point for me to have read this chapter so I started to Google. I wondered how old Mr E Reimer was when he wrote this book and if his own education had coloured his perceptions on the role of schooling in society. Once I found the book reviews from amazon.com (appendix) I started to appreciate why we needed to read this chapter. Reimers view of schooling, while extremely radical, is very thought provoking and encourages the reader to look at schooling from a society’s point of view and rethink why we educate as we do. Reimer states that schooling promotes an institutional mindset, which stifles real learning. The school becomes a dominant force in the lives of students, conforming the student to society’s values and social hierarchies. One point of this article, a reference to data from Jerome Bruner, tied in well with the topic of motivation; the data suggests that the more relevant the environment is to the concept/lesson, the more effect it has (Reimer 1971). This relates to making the lesson more authentic, i.e. more relevant and interesting to the student in a real life situation. ..
The next reading, Re-Thinking Today’s Secondary Schools (Groundwater-Smith 2008), was a very different viewpoint: schools haven’t changed much over the last two hundred years, the look of the schools and even the subjects taught are the same. Styles of teaching come and go but learning still goes on. I have just completed an assignment on the effect the micro chip has had on society in the areas of communication, information and education for FDN115. In the last fifteen years micro chip technology has redefined how our society communicates and the amount of information that is available is astounding. For example, I was able to learn the relevance Reimers chapter in about two minutes using the internet. Even though technology has redefined most parts of society, schooling is still relatively the same as it was fifty to one hundred years ago in regards to its core subjects of literacy and numeracy...
The students of today and tomorrow need to be educated for careers that don’t even exist yet. Careers that a student might decide on early in their schooling could be obsolete before they graduate. Teachers of today need to set up strategies to encourage the students into a pattern of life long learning. The days of leaving school and getting a job and staying there for the whole of your career are gone. I discovered this six years ago when my highly sort after and extremely specialised, work skills were rendered useless by the advent of the digital camera. A once iconic company, Kodak, is now a mere shadow of its former self due to not keeping up with the rapidly changing technology. ..
As times change, schooling needs to change. Teachers need to be digital natives not digital immigrants. With all these new technologies the basic need for literacy is still present, but the understanding of the new applications is needed as well. The theme of the classroom still being the same as in the previous centuries has weaved through this entire unit. The slides from this lecture showed actual examples of how the classrooms are set out, the similarities are obvious. I think that by the time I graduate there will be a lot of changes. Most of the readings and references of the last few topics have all been written in the last few years, the focus of current research does seem to be shifting towards embracing the technological age. Embracing the future, becoming a ‘futurologist’ is the key to engaging students in life long learning and making them want to come to school every day. Modern schools need to embrace the new technologies into new multi-modal lessons, using technology to adapt traditional learning outcomes to outcomes that are suitable to a rapidly changing future.
It feels quiet strange to put some of uni papers on my blog. I have an invitation only blog that I publish all my uni work on, but I have been encouraged to share a bit more here by my two best proof readers/ critics/ experts lol.
So, using my female logic I have managed to justify my love of my new iPod touch with a genuine need for it, for educational purposes of course!
Thursday, December 04, 2008
The six seasons!
I mentioned back in November that we were starting class focus on the six seasons...yes there are six seasons, well at least if you are in my classes lol.
Here in the tropics, it is hot and wet or hot and dry. For the kids who have grown up in this part of the world, spring, autumn and winter are unknown seasons.
We have had the best fun learning and researching about seasons and making our display.
It is a big concept for the kids to grasp that December is winter in the Northern hemisphere and summer in the Southern.
Our next bit of end of year fun was 3d snow flakes. I found the instructions on Becks blog last year, but I can't find the link now:(
Here are instructions from another source)
I can not tell you how many of these cute things I have made, how many instruction sheets I have handed out, how many have been made in the playground or at kids homes.........but I would guess at thousands! We have found that using recycled paper makes a great looking snowflake; woman's magazines and newspapers work well. In Australia we will be buying some red and green paint and splashing old newspapers to make snowflakes then decorating with them.
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
A library tree.
My little classroom is actually an annex/sun room at the end of the library. It is lovely spot, it feels very welcoming and relaxing. Instead of student desks I have a proper table and chairs where we sit side by side in a group.
In September we noticed a a little green thing growing up through the carpet, over the next week it grew 10 cm (4"), we had a tree growing out of the floor!
It became the big hit...how tall could our library tree grow?
We wrote sentences and stories about it, we made predictions about its growth and we theorized about how it got there.
Finally our tree got too big and it was in danger of causing damage to the walls and was removed. Our tree had reached over a meter tall.
I have found a new topic to cover in my classes, I try and have a theme per term and get it to cross over to the needs and ages of all students. I work with kids in year one right through to year six.
This term I am doing phonic blends and this week we concentrated on two sounds: au, aw, or and oy, oi.
One of my examples of au was autumn. I was astonished to find that most kids could not tell me the seasons in order or even know what they were.
In the tropics it is hot and wet or hot and dry.
Next week we are doing seasons.
Our school is secular, ie no religious focus at all, and as such there is no craft or lesson focus on Christmas (or any other religions special occasions). No trees, tinsel etc not even Christmas stories/books.
But...if I am doing seasons I might be able to do a few colorful snow flakes....
In September we noticed a a little green thing growing up through the carpet, over the next week it grew 10 cm (4"), we had a tree growing out of the floor!
It became the big hit...how tall could our library tree grow?
We wrote sentences and stories about it, we made predictions about its growth and we theorized about how it got there.
Finally our tree got too big and it was in danger of causing damage to the walls and was removed. Our tree had reached over a meter tall.
I have found a new topic to cover in my classes, I try and have a theme per term and get it to cross over to the needs and ages of all students. I work with kids in year one right through to year six.This term I am doing phonic blends and this week we concentrated on two sounds: au, aw, or and oy, oi.
One of my examples of au was autumn. I was astonished to find that most kids could not tell me the seasons in order or even know what they were.
In the tropics it is hot and wet or hot and dry.
Next week we are doing seasons.
Our school is secular, ie no religious focus at all, and as such there is no craft or lesson focus on Christmas (or any other religions special occasions). No trees, tinsel etc not even Christmas stories/books.
But...if I am doing seasons I might be able to do a few colorful snow flakes....
Saturday, August 16, 2008
A crazy thing
I have done a very crazy thing.....in regards to my workload.
We have signed up for Bahasa Indonesian lessons twice a week, a total of three hours per week.
This in in addition to working and studying full time....my brain is fizzing!
I have a huge vocabulary of Indonesian words but do not know all the joining words
EG want, it, is, in, all, now, the, all etc.
I can ask simple questions etc and make myself understood, but is not speaking properly, just stringing words together.
I want to be fluent.
We have signed up for Bahasa Indonesian lessons twice a week, a total of three hours per week.
This in in addition to working and studying full time....my brain is fizzing!
I have a huge vocabulary of Indonesian words but do not know all the joining words
EG want, it, is, in, all, now, the, all etc.
I can ask simple questions etc and make myself understood, but is not speaking properly, just stringing words together.
I want to be fluent.
Friday, August 15, 2008
School Sports Day
We had our school sports day this week to coincide with the Olympics.The kids all had a fantastic time and I was on official photographer detail for the day.
I would love to show all the photos but can't due to privacy issues.
The heat was horrendous, I didn't realise how much I need some time in AC each day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The kids didn't seem to notice at all, but I was drained by the end of the day and feel like I have a hang over today...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Bachelor of Education, Primary
I got into University!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I found an Australian uni that does an external degree in primary education and I start in August!
I hope to finish the degree with in three years; it is normally a 4 year full time degree.
I owe a big thank you to Dominic at Aussie in Indonesia for all his help and advise
I found an Australian uni that does an external degree in primary education and I start in August!
I hope to finish the degree with in three years; it is normally a 4 year full time degree.
I owe a big thank you to Dominic at Aussie in Indonesia for all his help and advise
Monday, June 09, 2008
Short vowels
My focus for this school term has been short and long vowels.
We have been doing a variety of crafts to match the English sounds to short vowels.
This is my classroom....LOL it is a little sun room at the end of the library and I think it is the best spot in the whole school.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
British International School, Jakarta
We went to a great function last night at the British International School here in Jakarta.
This would be the school I would send the kids to if we had an unlimited schooling allowance...it is magnificent. (it is also more than double the cost per year than our current school +/- $us50K pa).
We attended the Chinese New Year celebration picnic.
There was a Chinese dinner buffet, with dragon dancing, tai chi and a fantastic fireworks display all on a large grassy area. The weather was particularly good, it was a balmy, rainless evening.
The kids had a ball, we hardly saw them all night. The just ran all night with their friends. We sat in a large group and chatted (and drank a little wine...).
I forgot the camera......so no pictures :-(
Here is the link to see the school
The facilities and resources are excellent, as is the academic reputation.
This would be the school I would send the kids to if we had an unlimited schooling allowance...it is magnificent. (it is also more than double the cost per year than our current school +/- $us50K pa).
We attended the Chinese New Year celebration picnic.
There was a Chinese dinner buffet, with dragon dancing, tai chi and a fantastic fireworks display all on a large grassy area. The weather was particularly good, it was a balmy, rainless evening.
The kids had a ball, we hardly saw them all night. The just ran all night with their friends. We sat in a large group and chatted (and drank a little wine...).
I forgot the camera......so no pictures :-(
Here is the link to see the school
The facilities and resources are excellent, as is the academic reputation.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Playground duty at school
I do not think that there is worse job at school.
Tuesday 10 to 10.30am is my slot.
I was lucky(not!) enough to get the top playground as my hot spot.
This is the danger zone, it is hell on earth.
Above the slides, above the chairs outside year one classroom, where lots of cute LITTLE kids congregate, there is an over hanging roof, with no gutter.
On Tuesday a work man was walking on this wet roof barefoot!
He was replacing roof tiles, which he was holding and stacking on this wet tiled roof........
directly above the heads of all these cute (well loud, raucous and energetic) kids.
He looked at me as if I was a crazy bule (westerner) for yelling at him to get away.
So playground duty is for making sure that all kids survive and return to class when the bell rings as well as scheduling repair work for the most suitable time.
In comparison, the lower level duty is wonderful.
The area is the tables and chairs around the pool with lovely big shady trees. This duty involves slowly walking through the tables chatting with nice kids (well except for the year 2 boys LOL), opening tight lunch box lids and chip packets, getting a cool water from the cooler and having a coffee passed out the staff room window.
I will have to do some serious crawling to get this spot for next term!
Tuesday 10 to 10.30am is my slot.
I was lucky(not!) enough to get the top playground as my hot spot.
This is the danger zone, it is hell on earth.
- The upper year boys playing soccer with a killer intensity.
- The year 1 and 2 kids running around with gay abandon.
- The older girls skipping and playing basketball.
- Little kids climbing the adventure playground like little daredevils.
- Occasionally the preschoolers will come out to the sandpit to watch (2-3.5yr olds).
- To stop the kids from running up the slipper slides; the school has two levels and to join them there is a big concrete staircase and some built in concrete slides. The kids think they are FANTASTIC, I think they are lethal.
It is the person on duty's job to keep all these groups under
control and to stop the zones from colliding.
I need danger money.
It is like trying to herd a pack of starving wolves.
But this week I was flabbergasted by a new danger.
control and to stop the zones from colliding.
I need danger money.
It is like trying to herd a pack of starving wolves.
But this week I was flabbergasted by a new danger.
Above the slides, above the chairs outside year one classroom, where lots of cute LITTLE kids congregate, there is an over hanging roof, with no gutter.
On Tuesday a work man was walking on this wet roof barefoot!
He was replacing roof tiles, which he was holding and stacking on this wet tiled roof........
directly above the heads of all these cute (well loud, raucous and energetic) kids.
He looked at me as if I was a crazy bule (westerner) for yelling at him to get away.
So playground duty is for making sure that all kids survive and return to class when the bell rings as well as scheduling repair work for the most suitable time.
In comparison, the lower level duty is wonderful.
The area is the tables and chairs around the pool with lovely big shady trees. This duty involves slowly walking through the tables chatting with nice kids (well except for the year 2 boys LOL), opening tight lunch box lids and chip packets, getting a cool water from the cooler and having a coffee passed out the staff room window.
I will have to do some serious crawling to get this spot for next term!
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Teaching degree
I am searching uni sites at the moment to find a online/correspondence course in order to get my teaching degree (Bachelor of Education-primary) as soon as possible.
Oh my it is so confusing…..I wonder if they make it so hard so only clever people can get in?
Not that I am not clever, I am!
I am very logical and these sites just aren’t.
If any one knows of any links to Australian uni that offer this course please let me know. (if I do it through another countries uni I will be a foreign student and will probably have to pay much higher fees.)
What I need to know is how do you get the degree necessary for deciphering the uni web sites in order to sign up for a degree……….
Oh my it is so confusing…..I wonder if they make it so hard so only clever people can get in?
Not that I am not clever, I am!
I am very logical and these sites just aren’t.
If any one knows of any links to Australian uni that offer this course please let me know. (if I do it through another countries uni I will be a foreign student and will probably have to pay much higher fees.)
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Real estate agents and school mums
I am having a super cranky week this week in regards to the agency handling the managing our home in Australia.
I will give the owner a chance to get involved and fix the problems before I scream from the roof top.
We have a psychotic mum at school at the moment......first day back at school for the year and she is already causing problems.
It's sad for her kids and others to see her roaming through the carpark ranting and raving.
I feel for her as she obviously has some major problems, but won't accept help and rebuffs offers of friendship.
It is a really bad and sad situation.
I hope the school carries through with the threat of not allowing her on the grounds if the situation doesn't improve.
I have had enough.
I will give the owner a chance to get involved and fix the problems before I scream from the roof top.
We have a psychotic mum at school at the moment......first day back at school for the year and she is already causing problems.
It's sad for her kids and others to see her roaming through the carpark ranting and raving.
I feel for her as she obviously has some major problems, but won't accept help and rebuffs offers of friendship.
It is a really bad and sad situation.
I hope the school carries through with the threat of not allowing her on the grounds if the situation doesn't improve.
I have had enough.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Back.....albeit briefly
Wow, what a week or two!
We arrived back in Jakarta late on Sunday night and I have been in a flurry of business ever since.
I don't think I have answered an email for two weeks...., I think I might have time a week Thursday LOL.
If it is you that is waiting, whoops sorry.
I have heaps of posts in my head and no time to write them.
And photos......I have over 1500 to sort through just for October!
My main focus this week has been integrating all the new students into my already packed schedule as well as taking school photos for the entire junior school.
It is Chelsea's birthday today....(her very own post to follow) so I have also been whipping up a few dozen cup cakes.
Hopefully regular bloggy schedule will resume soon.
We arrived back in Jakarta late on Sunday night and I have been in a flurry of business ever since.
I don't think I have answered an email for two weeks...., I think I might have time a week Thursday LOL.
If it is you that is waiting, whoops sorry.
I have heaps of posts in my head and no time to write them.
And photos......I have over 1500 to sort through just for October!
My main focus this week has been integrating all the new students into my already packed schedule as well as taking school photos for the entire junior school.
It is Chelsea's birthday today....(her very own post to follow) so I have also been whipping up a few dozen cup cakes.
Hopefully regular bloggy schedule will resume soon.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Maggots in Jakarta
I love science...it was my best subject at school (I was Mrs Broughs FAVOURITE).GJ and I encourage the kids interest in all things...but whoa......today...MAGGOTS!
Last year Santa was nice enough to bring a microscope kit for Georgia.
We have had heaps of fun examining the difference between grains of rice, sugar crystals, coffee beans, hairs etc...
Today the stakes were upped.
The kids found a fly with maggots...............and guess what.....they wanted to look.
This was some of the conversation "flying" around our house today:
- I don't do maggots
- I birthed your children, you do maggots
- maggots are baby flies, you do it
- Where have the maggots gone......
Another learning experience chalked up. The kids had fun.....The parents gagged alot !
PS I didn't do maggots!!!!!! I let GJ have all the fun!
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Amigos Mexican restaurant, Kemang Jakarta
Georgia's birthday dinner (not to be confused with THE PARTY, which will be after the holidays)
The girls started doing gangster rapping poses, I have no idea where they got this from LOL
Dancing Queens.
The girls all got up and did a karaoke version of Abba's dancing queen followed by singing Georgia Happy Birthday.
Unfortunately Georgia did not get up and sing....why you ask??????
Condensed version of a long story......
The girls started doing gangster rapping poses, I have no idea where they got this from LOL
Dancing Queens.The girls all got up and did a karaoke version of Abba's dancing queen followed by singing Georgia Happy Birthday.
Unfortunately Georgia did not get up and sing....why you ask??????Condensed version of a long story......
- Music teacher is a professional singer.
- School end of year concert has the entire junior school singing songs.
- A few kids didn't have "good" enough voices so were asked not to sing, Georgia was one of the three.
- Georgia spent a week upset sobbing every night until she could tell us the problem
- GJ was at the school heads office at 7.30am
- All school personnel shocked and dismayed, situation rectified BUT damage has been done.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Mad science, after school activity
The girls both choose Mad Science as an after school activity this term.
This is an experiment that they made....gloop!
Gloop went runny and then hard and then back to runny. The base was corn flour so it had a really interesting texture as well as a high gloss.
Of course gloop is through the whole house...
On a side note, this is half of the stairs I need to transverse on my bottom......and my super collage print of our Java road trip is now hanging....and looking magnificent.
This is an experiment that they made....gloop!
Gloop went runny and then hard and then back to runny. The base was corn flour so it had a really interesting texture as well as a high gloss.
Of course gloop is through the whole house...
On a side note, this is half of the stairs I need to transverse on my bottom......and my super collage print of our Java road trip is now hanging....and looking magnificent.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Ballet in Jakarta
Isn't she gorgeous....
Ballet in Jakarta is so different to what I remember from my years of study.
I studied under a wonderful lady in Sydney of Russian descent.
Madame was lovely, but a perfectionist.
Chelsea's ballet class is nothing like mine.
Chelsea's class is about having fun and dancing around in a pretty tutu.
She is slowly learning all the correct positions and she is having a wonderful time doing so.
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