Welcome 2018! Its hard to believe the first month of the new year will come to an end next week. I wouldn't say it is the best welcome month for any of us as we had a good round of summer colds and stomach bugs. I am the lucky one who copped it this week. I was quite sick for two days. Only today I got out and about to get some important things done.
Also had four people in hospital last week. On Tuesday one craft friend had day surgery on her nose to remove a sun cancer. On the same night my grand daughter was admitted to hospital with coughing and wheezing. Turns out it was asthma!! She was in hospital for half the night of having hourly doses of the asthma puffer. She was discharged after midnight once the wheezing stopped and her heart rate dropped back to normal. On Wednesday I had two relatives in hospital. A cousin of mine had more serious operation for his cancer removal in the colon and appendix. Last I heard he is making good progress with major body changes On the same day I thought it was my Dad's turn to have day surgery for his melanoma but it turned out to be only a consultation visit. He goes into hospital next Tuesday for his day surgery. Over the summer season I lost count on how many doctor visits he had for sunspots. Except for that one melanoma on his left arm, most of the biopsies came back as BCCs. One of the nurses told my father: he is breeding a cancer farm!!
On a good note: my bowling league and craft workshops have resumed last weekend. It was a busy weekend as I had two craft meets during the day on Saturday and Sunday and bowling on Sunday night. First night back I bowled well! In a different league at a different centre I witness a 300 game played on Monday night. I was only at the centre for social time with my daughter (about wedding stuff) while her future partner bowls in their league with a mate of theirs.
Besides watching a lot of tennis on TV, I did managed to see three movies at the cinema. I watched The Greatest Showman, Paddington Bear 2 and Jumanji (ie THE ROCK starred in this one). Oh yeah, that reminds I met an American lady while dining out with old college buddy of mine for lunch at one of the famous AFL club in Logan. It was a 5 hr lunch as the US friend (who currently on holidays in Australia) told us a lot of USA. I was the curious one who wanted to know more about US! Its my dream holiday to go to USA and see many places. I do have a relative and a long time email friend who lives in Florida. As we were departing the footy venue my buddy and I found out this young USA woman is related to THE ROCK. I do have a cousin who is famous in the footy world over in USA so it doesn't really surprise me to meet someone who is related to someone else who is famous. I believe celebrities are entitled to a private life too!
Six weeks of school holidays has been and gone! The students in Queensland went back to school this week. They only had a 3-4 days of schooling as tomorrow is Australia Day! Its a public holiday for all states of the country to celebrate the country's milestones. I don't think I will be doing anything special but I have been invited to attend to a BBQ on Saturday night with some bowling friends.
Guess that is the drama I have to share with you this month! All the best of a Happy February! Safe travels to any destination! Sadly two families had lost their lives over the Christmas weekend. Both accidents (one in Brisbane and the other in NSW) was caused from an intoxicated drivers (ie drug related). Just remember if you plan on drinking alcohol at any venue, make sure you have a plan B beforehand.
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Sunday, 31 December 2017
My 2017 Report
Today is the last day of 2017. The weather prediction might be right about a wet and stormy night for New Year Eve celebrations tonight. Its very overcast and humid now!! Not sure if I will go out or even be awake to see 2018 welcoming as I have came down with a summer cold this morning.
Didn't this year really fly by? Could say I had a busy year of doing part time job in retail and babysitting. During the second semester I was studying a course which ended when school finished for the year. I was studying Education Support and had one term of work experience at a public primary school. I mostly worked in the junior grades by assisting the classroom teacher with admin work, supervising and assisting some students with their education needs and playground duty.
My craft meets didn't happened as much in semester two as my course taken up most of my time. I mainly attending to meets on some weekends per month. I mostly done my own thing with an odd workshop activity/lesson. Next year I plan on just focus on one thing as I am well behind with the projects. I am hoping to use this summer break to prepare many pages to scrapbook in 2018.
I was still bowling on Sunday nights. My league went for 46 weeks and managed not to come last in our league standings. I didn't bowl many high games at all. Maybe it should be something I should focus more on in 2018. Next year it looks to be new members will be joining the league. There were discussions about changing centres but I am glad the plan fell through as I wasn't going to travel an extra 30 minutes to get there. During the year we had a couple of social events with the league. We had a couple of dining outs and one day of putt putt on the Gold Coast. The league committee is seeking new fundraising ideas for 2018. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Better go and get some food shopping done before the storm comes later on. Happy New Year! I hope 2018 will be happy, healthy and safe year for you and your families. If you planning to make New Year Resolutions I hope you will be able to sick to them.
Didn't this year really fly by? Could say I had a busy year of doing part time job in retail and babysitting. During the second semester I was studying a course which ended when school finished for the year. I was studying Education Support and had one term of work experience at a public primary school. I mostly worked in the junior grades by assisting the classroom teacher with admin work, supervising and assisting some students with their education needs and playground duty.
My craft meets didn't happened as much in semester two as my course taken up most of my time. I mainly attending to meets on some weekends per month. I mostly done my own thing with an odd workshop activity/lesson. Next year I plan on just focus on one thing as I am well behind with the projects. I am hoping to use this summer break to prepare many pages to scrapbook in 2018.
I was still bowling on Sunday nights. My league went for 46 weeks and managed not to come last in our league standings. I didn't bowl many high games at all. Maybe it should be something I should focus more on in 2018. Next year it looks to be new members will be joining the league. There were discussions about changing centres but I am glad the plan fell through as I wasn't going to travel an extra 30 minutes to get there. During the year we had a couple of social events with the league. We had a couple of dining outs and one day of putt putt on the Gold Coast. The league committee is seeking new fundraising ideas for 2018. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Better go and get some food shopping done before the storm comes later on. Happy New Year! I hope 2018 will be happy, healthy and safe year for you and your families. If you planning to make New Year Resolutions I hope you will be able to sick to them.
Sunday, 24 December 2017
Merry Christmas!
Only one sleep to go! I hope everyone is well prepared by now as officially tomorrow will be the biggest day for most people.
Before the shops close this afternoon I need to purchase and prepare the fresh food ready for tomorrow. Hopefully the shops will be abit quieter. Most supermarkets had been open to midnight during this week. I called into one after 10pm on Friday night and I was amazed how silent night it really was.
Later this afternoon I have plans to watch a Christmas movie at the cinema with a friend. And on Boxing Day we already got tickets to see the latest Doctor Who movie length episode in the afternoon.
Either tonight but more likely tomorrow I will be out and about during the day to hand deliver my Christmas cards into some mailbox as I didn't get around to writing up Christmas cards until yesterday. Others will be posted as they live too far away.
Tomorrow I will be at my daughters from late afternoon to have our family dinner there. She has plans to be with her partner's family during the day.
Best wishes for a happy and safe festive season with your families. I hope 2018 will be a happy and healthy year for all.
Before the shops close this afternoon I need to purchase and prepare the fresh food ready for tomorrow. Hopefully the shops will be abit quieter. Most supermarkets had been open to midnight during this week. I called into one after 10pm on Friday night and I was amazed how silent night it really was.
Later this afternoon I have plans to watch a Christmas movie at the cinema with a friend. And on Boxing Day we already got tickets to see the latest Doctor Who movie length episode in the afternoon.
Either tonight but more likely tomorrow I will be out and about during the day to hand deliver my Christmas cards into some mailbox as I didn't get around to writing up Christmas cards until yesterday. Others will be posted as they live too far away.
Tomorrow I will be at my daughters from late afternoon to have our family dinner there. She has plans to be with her partner's family during the day.
Best wishes for a happy and safe festive season with your families. I hope 2018 will be a happy and healthy year for all.
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Goodbye Spring!
OMG!! Where is this year really going? Only 25 more sleeps until Christmas Day! I haven't even thought much about this year's Christmas shopping, card writing and etc. as I have been busy dealing with my college degree. Next week is the last week of college and proud to say we only have our final module to complete tomorrow. Our graduation won't happened until January 2018. It will be abit hard to apply for any current teacher aide's positions before school ends next week as none of us can show our certificate until late January. In today's mail my first aide certificate finally arrived after the hiccups since September.
Today is the last day of spring but like I said in a previous blog we started summer temperatures already. Throughout this month we seen more rainfall and an odd storm here and there. The BOM are predicting a possible wet festive season. Really it depends on how hard the rain falls in short time over the festive season. My Christmas dinner supposedly be happening at my daughter's house. If there is too much rain with flash flooding in low areas it will be very hard to travel to her place. On the weather report on TV tonight there was a Tropical Cyclone formed out the sea off Western Australia. I wasn't expecting to hear about cyclones as yet. Normally we don't hear about them until January.
Year 10 to 12 have now finished their school year. All private schools will be finished by tomorrow. Only the state schools from prep to year 9 will finished next Friday. My field placement will be completed next week too. In my last week I will be working with other teacher aides and see what really goes behind the scenes. Today in their staffroom I observed two teacher's aides preparing many scrapbooks for next year's classes.
This week was my last week to work in the junior classrooms. I will miss them as I have gain some form of professional relationship with some students. I have grown to know more about their personality traits, etc. It has been a great experience to see and learn how much the curriculum has changed since I was at school. Even my 19 year old said last week the curriculum has changed a lot since she was in year one. The only thing I will to learn more is about their handwriting styles because it sure has changed a lot since my school days. Guess I will have to buy a handwriting book and start practicing over the holidays.
About a month ago my 19 yo has announced her engagement to her child's father. They plan to get married in autumn 2019. They plan on having three bridesmaids (all relatives), one flower girl (which I am sure you can work out who that person is) and three groomsmen (two are friends and one relative). At the moment only their wedding attire are on layby. They decided to order now while major sales are on. My job is to make invitations next year!
Just recently my grand daughter has developed a new milestone. She started to scribble on paper. Also she scribbles on walls and tables. At this stage we can't predict which way she will go with her fine motor skills. At the moment she seems to be using both left and right hands to hold a pencil and scribble. But I feel she might end up be left handed because she seems to feel more comfortable in scribbling and holding the pencil right. If I had to, I can cut and write left handed but not as fast and confident as my right hand.
Better go as I have some Christmas Cards to write to my college mates and hand out tomorrow. A couple of students won't be able to attend to the break up party next week. Have a good night!
Today is the last day of spring but like I said in a previous blog we started summer temperatures already. Throughout this month we seen more rainfall and an odd storm here and there. The BOM are predicting a possible wet festive season. Really it depends on how hard the rain falls in short time over the festive season. My Christmas dinner supposedly be happening at my daughter's house. If there is too much rain with flash flooding in low areas it will be very hard to travel to her place. On the weather report on TV tonight there was a Tropical Cyclone formed out the sea off Western Australia. I wasn't expecting to hear about cyclones as yet. Normally we don't hear about them until January.
Year 10 to 12 have now finished their school year. All private schools will be finished by tomorrow. Only the state schools from prep to year 9 will finished next Friday. My field placement will be completed next week too. In my last week I will be working with other teacher aides and see what really goes behind the scenes. Today in their staffroom I observed two teacher's aides preparing many scrapbooks for next year's classes.
This week was my last week to work in the junior classrooms. I will miss them as I have gain some form of professional relationship with some students. I have grown to know more about their personality traits, etc. It has been a great experience to see and learn how much the curriculum has changed since I was at school. Even my 19 year old said last week the curriculum has changed a lot since she was in year one. The only thing I will to learn more is about their handwriting styles because it sure has changed a lot since my school days. Guess I will have to buy a handwriting book and start practicing over the holidays.
About a month ago my 19 yo has announced her engagement to her child's father. They plan to get married in autumn 2019. They plan on having three bridesmaids (all relatives), one flower girl (which I am sure you can work out who that person is) and three groomsmen (two are friends and one relative). At the moment only their wedding attire are on layby. They decided to order now while major sales are on. My job is to make invitations next year!
Just recently my grand daughter has developed a new milestone. She started to scribble on paper. Also she scribbles on walls and tables. At this stage we can't predict which way she will go with her fine motor skills. At the moment she seems to be using both left and right hands to hold a pencil and scribble. But I feel she might end up be left handed because she seems to feel more comfortable in scribbling and holding the pencil right. If I had to, I can cut and write left handed but not as fast and confident as my right hand.
Better go as I have some Christmas Cards to write to my college mates and hand out tomorrow. A couple of students won't be able to attend to the break up party next week. Have a good night!
Saturday, 7 October 2017
Half way into Spring
How's everything and everyone going? Hope all is well and enjoying your autumn/spring season. We are supposedly be in spring but we had more summer temperatures here already. Storm season already started after a dry autumn and winter seasons. Still not a lot of rain in SE QLD to fill up our dams. I heard Bundaberg copped a good dose of the rainfall last week!
Here I thought it was time to put our winter supplies away but it's overcast, windy (on the north side) and cooler here today! Supposedly be cooler temps and overcast with showers this weekend! Thank goodness I done all the washing of my clothes yesterday before I went to college. And managed to get home in time before the storm arrived.
What did yesterday's storm do? On my way home yesterday I could see a good storm brewing on the Southside. My eldest daughter text me once I got home from college to say the storm looked to be really a nasty one near her way. She moved to Acacia Ridge (not far from our old address years ago. She was too young to remember living there) after her daughter's first birthday party in July. I won't got into details to why the sudden move from Regents Park to where they are now.
I didn't catch the news report to find out who copped the nasty looking storm but we only had the tail end of the cell at my place. Just one heavy shower for 5-10 minutes and abit windy. Not strong enough to worry about moving my car off the street.
Nothing special to report about September...Just basically done the normal routine each week with work at the boutique store but my volunteer hours have now dropped, two craft meets, bowling and study my course which takes up my days of the week now. The last two weeks of September were school holidays.
This week was back to school for Term 4...the last term for the school year in Australia. Back to college this week after a two week break but I only had one week as the first week I had a module to finish off and do my first aid training.
I started my work experience this week. I had two days of attending to a year one class. After discussions with other students yesterday it seems I am the only one with the most hours of working and shorter breaks. I work 6 hours per day! I only have half an hour break per day which suits me fine as I used to it from other occupations. Most of the time I feel that is all I really need! Even at college we only get half an hour at lunchtime. Sadly I don't eat much during the break because I am a slow eater!
Our curriculum sure has changed since my school days. In the classroom this week the students were learning about English procedure (ie how to write one). Do you know what that is? I was more surprise to see the juniors are learning this. I thought this assessment would suit high school students more. When I mentioned to afew people at work (at the shop) they were surprised too. One person said these students will be doing university work by the time they hit senior primary (ie year 6).
Better go as I have an assessment to do and finish off my module this weekend. My assessment work is to create a bookmark (with an educational note on it) This week we were learning about supporting students with literacy skills. Next week will be about numeracy.
Have a good weekend!
Here I thought it was time to put our winter supplies away but it's overcast, windy (on the north side) and cooler here today! Supposedly be cooler temps and overcast with showers this weekend! Thank goodness I done all the washing of my clothes yesterday before I went to college. And managed to get home in time before the storm arrived.
What did yesterday's storm do? On my way home yesterday I could see a good storm brewing on the Southside. My eldest daughter text me once I got home from college to say the storm looked to be really a nasty one near her way. She moved to Acacia Ridge (not far from our old address years ago. She was too young to remember living there) after her daughter's first birthday party in July. I won't got into details to why the sudden move from Regents Park to where they are now.
I didn't catch the news report to find out who copped the nasty looking storm but we only had the tail end of the cell at my place. Just one heavy shower for 5-10 minutes and abit windy. Not strong enough to worry about moving my car off the street.
Nothing special to report about September...Just basically done the normal routine each week with work at the boutique store but my volunteer hours have now dropped, two craft meets, bowling and study my course which takes up my days of the week now. The last two weeks of September were school holidays.
This week was back to school for Term 4...the last term for the school year in Australia. Back to college this week after a two week break but I only had one week as the first week I had a module to finish off and do my first aid training.
I started my work experience this week. I had two days of attending to a year one class. After discussions with other students yesterday it seems I am the only one with the most hours of working and shorter breaks. I work 6 hours per day! I only have half an hour break per day which suits me fine as I used to it from other occupations. Most of the time I feel that is all I really need! Even at college we only get half an hour at lunchtime. Sadly I don't eat much during the break because I am a slow eater!
Our curriculum sure has changed since my school days. In the classroom this week the students were learning about English procedure (ie how to write one). Do you know what that is? I was more surprise to see the juniors are learning this. I thought this assessment would suit high school students more. When I mentioned to afew people at work (at the shop) they were surprised too. One person said these students will be doing university work by the time they hit senior primary (ie year 6).
Better go as I have an assessment to do and finish off my module this weekend. My assessment work is to create a bookmark (with an educational note on it) This week we were learning about supporting students with literacy skills. Next week will be about numeracy.
Have a good weekend!
Thursday, 7 September 2017
Goodbye Winter!!
It's now the start of spring season here in Australia. Well I wouldn't actually say its true spring as some areas of Queensland had summer temperatures during the day. While Hobart (capital city of Tasmania) has snow!! Go figure! Would be nice if we had more rain as it's very dry here over winter. Our grass is brown! And I heard we might be a drought season again!!
Yes....you could say I have neglected my blog as it has been 2-3 months since I last posted. Only because I have been busy!! Besides normal commitments I am enrolled to study a course in Brisbane. I'm now studying Certificate 3 in Education Support since August. It means I would like to become a teacher aide in schools. It's only a 20 week course which means I must complete a module per week. I have face to face training once a week and complete the module at home within a week. Field Placement will commenced after the school holidays and have regular visits for experience and assessment for one term. Hopefully it will be enough to be employed next year!
The highlight of July would be my grand daughter! She turned one! Her parents hosted a party at their old home address (they have moved again since) with a lot of family members and close friends. They had relatives as far as Grafton who attended the occasion.
My grand daughter started to walk before her first birthday. She loves adventure!! She never sits down long enough!! She started attending day care recently. She goes two days per week and seems to enjoy attending and making new friends.
Better go and get organised for tomorrow's college. I have learnt forth module and tomorrow's module will be about Diverse People. We have been asked to bring in a plate from our cultural backgrounds. I'm sticking to something sweet and Aussie. We had five generations born in Australia now.
Have a good evening!
Yes....you could say I have neglected my blog as it has been 2-3 months since I last posted. Only because I have been busy!! Besides normal commitments I am enrolled to study a course in Brisbane. I'm now studying Certificate 3 in Education Support since August. It means I would like to become a teacher aide in schools. It's only a 20 week course which means I must complete a module per week. I have face to face training once a week and complete the module at home within a week. Field Placement will commenced after the school holidays and have regular visits for experience and assessment for one term. Hopefully it will be enough to be employed next year!
The highlight of July would be my grand daughter! She turned one! Her parents hosted a party at their old home address (they have moved again since) with a lot of family members and close friends. They had relatives as far as Grafton who attended the occasion.
My grand daughter started to walk before her first birthday. She loves adventure!! She never sits down long enough!! She started attending day care recently. She goes two days per week and seems to enjoy attending and making new friends.
Better go and get organised for tomorrow's college. I have learnt forth module and tomorrow's module will be about Diverse People. We have been asked to bring in a plate from our cultural backgrounds. I'm sticking to something sweet and Aussie. We had five generations born in Australia now.
Have a good evening!
Thursday, 29 June 2017
June report
Where does each month go? Can't believe the first month of winter is just about over. Next month our stamp club will celebrate Xmas in July but I can't be there as my daughter has a medical appointment on the same day. It involves her ligament on her foot. She has been wearing a mini moonboot for the past two months in hoping the ligament has progressed. Our Ipswich club will have a Xmas in July theme too but guess what? I can't be there either as my grand daughter's party will be on. Families do come first!!
I am slowly getting back into the swings of things. Over the weekend I was busy sorting out one box of scrap papers into more an organised order. I can't believe it taken me a whole day to sort out just one box. I still have another three boxes to go!! Might get into another box this weekend as I don't have anything else on until 16th July. A craft friend of mine yesterday suggested to buy a filing box (which I have seen at Officeworks last night) to file each snap locked bags into the box. I like her idea which I will go back to Officeworks at next payday and buy one for under $35.
I had a busy month with attending to craft workshops. I had one weekend retreat of scrapbooking, and eight day workshops involving papercrafting. Either I am working on scrapbooking pages or swaps. After my grand daughter's party I plan on starting to create her baby album. I have the items purchased or given to me and sketch afew ideas on what to create on each page. The album was given to me where you just add photos and journaling so it will be easier to complete at an all day workshop or camp. Printing out photos will take some time. Normally I do a lot at home but this time I will get the photos done at Officeworks to save me extra costs on printer ink. The ink costs more then the printer!!
I have been working at the boutique store for almost two months now. It's been good and the boss has got me to be in charge of my area now and I trained the new staff who come in. Last two weeks have been full on. It's been that busy (as its now EOFY sales are on) I don't get a lunch break even. By the time I get home in the afternoon I am tired and hungry.
Enjoy your month of July!
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