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Orientation - Day 5

For our last day of orientation, they wanted to familiarize us with the school, teacher, and class we would be teaching for the next 4 weeks. Those of us who are elementary (or primary as it is called here) teachers began our day at Morayfield East State School. We were taught how to sign in in...

permalink written by  cowane1 on August 20, 2010 from Caboolture, Australia
from the travel blog: Australian Adventures!

Orientation - Day 4

The university had decided that we had had enough DIFFICULT serious orientation stuff to fill our brain for the time being, and decided that all of Thursday was going to be devoted to going to the Australia Zoo! The Australia Zoo is extremely famous, and widely visited because it was the home of...

permalink written by  cowane1 on August 19, 2010 from Beerwah, Australia
from the travel blog: Australian Adventures!

Orientation - Day 3

Today for orientation we got the opportunity to visit a different Australian school than the one that we would be teaching at. We would simply get the opportunity to sit in throughout the day, help out as we wanted, and observe the differences in culture. The school we visited was Wamuran State...

permalink written by  cowane1 on August 18, 2010 from Wamuran, Australia
from the travel blog: Australian Adventures!

Orientation - Day 2

We began our day with a very exciting lecture by one of the QUT professors, Jenny. The class was about the middle years, and her lecture focused particularly on the adolescent brain! Following her lecture, we were sent to the library for instruction about searching out accessible curriculum...

permalink written by  cowane1 on August 17, 2010 from Caboolture, Australia
from the travel blog: Australian Adventures!

Orientation - Day 1

Monday was our first day of orientation. They didn't load us full of information because all of the other students didn't arrive until Sunday and jetlag plus lots of details just simply don't mix. We were introduced to several very important people to our stay - including our homestay...

permalink written by  cowane1 on August 16, 2010 from Caboolture, Australia
from the travel blog: Australian Adventures!

Day 1: DONE!

So after having to re-check luggage, losing a day of my life, 2 hours of sleep, 9 hours of layovers and about 20 hours of sitting in airplanes we FINALLY MADE IT! First day spent in Aussie (pronounced OZZIE by the way) was spent hangin out with my host family, whom I already adore. The two boys,...

permalink written by  Sara Sickels on August 16, 2010 from Burpengary, Australia
from the travel blog: Australia!!

a little holiday within a holiday...

After two weeks at Vintner's we were clearly sick of it- who wouldn't be in a lovely place with friendly people, interesting work, cute animals, and beautiful views? So we decided to go on a little three-night WWOOF holiday to another host, an hour north in Bundaberg. Well, I say 'decide', but...

permalink written by  LizIsHere on August 13, 2010 from Bundaberg, Australia
from the travel blog: New Zealand & Australia 2010

Don't say how long.

Well a lot has been going on and I haven't written for ages so this will be a long entry! I left Sydeny early one morning on the Oz Experience bus, which is a hop off-hop on bus that goes up and down the coast and stopped at a place called Spot-X, which gives free surf lessons for customers of...

permalink written by   on August 7, 2010 from Noosa Heads, Australia
from the travel blog: And now for something different...

vintner;s

We finally finished pruning on the 4th August at around 2pm (although we had to leave a tantasling two vines long for a newspaper photographer to record the next day). Then we had the afternoon off, relaxing in the hammock, the orchards and one the upstairs verandah with books and journals. ...

permalink written by  LizIsHere on August 5, 2010 from Childers, Australia
from the travel blog: New Zealand & Australia 2010

Vintner's cont'd

We pruned for four days plus the training day, up and ready at eight to head down to the vines with our gloves, hats, secateurs, water bottles and suntan lotion (the vines are only a three-minute max. walk from the house but it saved running back and taking our shoes on and off all day). The...

permalink written by  LizIsHere on August 4, 2010 from Childers, Australia
from the travel blog: New Zealand & Australia 2010

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