TWO MARVELLOUS AND ISOLATED VILLAGES

Bundeena and Maianbar are two beautiful places located in Southern Sydney. They are surrounded by the Royal National Park on three sides and by to the sea on the other one.

If you would like to visit them you can get there by ferry from Cronulla the trip takes about 20 minutes, or if you prefer by car through the National Park.
There are many activities to do so we recommend to try a few of these possibilities.

Enjoy the best view for miles. The coast walk from bundeena to Otford is one of the most spectacular in the state the full walk takes two days there you can enjoy expectacular views and beautiful beaches during the walk.

Take a trip back 5.000 years. In the Bundeena area the Daharawa used to live there up to 5.000 years ago. They made engravings in the super Aboriginal rock it is located in Jibbon Point at the eastern end of Jibbon Beach. To find the engravings, walk the length of the beach to the rock platform where a short path leads to the place.

The Bundeena-Maianbar Heritage Walk is the most self walking path with very clear sings about the area's past and is unique plants and wildlife.

SWINE FLU LATEST

Australia is worried about Swine flu virus. Until today there are 91 suspected cases in the whole country plus 22 people who were in contact with some other who tested positives to Swine flu so Health authorities are checking them.

Pharmacies are selling face masks and they have a plenty supply of Antiviral drugs. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has advised Australians to think about traveling to Mexico.

However Olympic diver Mathew Mitchang and his diving partner are in Mexico. They participated in a world diving event.

According with Federal Health Minister. Authorities now have power to detain people with symtoms of the virus.

MY LAST HOLIDAYS

My holidays were pretty quiet I was at home most of the time except the Saturday of Easter week I went with my family to the Easter show.

We caught the bus at 11:00 a.m. at Rockdale station it took about 45 minutes traveled to Home bush Olympic Park. When we arrived we met our friends and together we went into of that amazing place.

We were visiting all the stands first and ones of the most interesting were of the animals, we sow lot of them and our friends kids were so happiest feeding some of them, bath in some places we were moving slowly because the crowd. Then no longer had we felt tired and hungry in that moment we knew all of as needed a break, so we found a place and we had lunch. Everyone one brought same food and we share it, well we had a really good lunch.

In the afternoon we enjoyed same shows and I was interesting in the competence of wood chop. The world’s best was competing for the title of world champion in five events:

-Single handed sawing

-double handed sawing
-Tree felling
-Standing block
-Underhand

The ladies International Relay had Australian, USA and Canadian teams. The title was given to USA.

The last place we visited was the theme park. It was fan and exiting especially for kids then we took same photos and we decided it was time to back home.

However the day wasn’t enough to see the whole place bath it was a great experience and we had a wonderful day

ANZAC BISCUITS

1 cup rolled oats, 1 cup sifted plain flour, 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed, ½ cup coconut, 125g butter, 2 tablespoons golden syrup, 1 tablespoon boiling water, 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda.

METHOD:

Combine oats, sifted flour, sugar and coconut together in a large bowl.
Melt syrup and butter together in another bowl.
Stir soda with boiling water and mix into melted butter and syrup.
Stir mixture into dry ingredients.
Place rounded teaspoons of mixture onto a lightly greased oven tray (about 5cm apart).
Flatten out with a fork.
Bake in a slow oven (160˚c) for about 20minutes or until biscuits feel a bit firm. Loosen biscuits and cool on wire trays.
This mixture makes about 25 biscuits.

The missing verbs:flatten, melt, loosen, bake, place, stir (x2), mix, combine, cool

ANZAC DAY

ANZAC day is a very special day in Australia. On 25Th April each year Australians remember what happened in times of war and it's a public holiday.

The letters stand for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, some people are called heroes as a Simpson and his donkey named "Duffy" both are famous heroes from the First World War .

Most countries have people who work in the Army, the Navy or the Air force. This is called the Defence Force. "Defend" means to keep safe and Australian Defence Force keep our Country safe

and protect us.

On ANZAC Day people who have defended our Country get special medals and families can go to the marches in their towns, we can wear Anzac bandages and Wave Australian flags to show how proud we are. The Ode is a part of an special poem that is said during the Anzac Day Service, the poem said: " they shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them."

On ANZAC Day flowers and wreaths of red poppies are laid at the bottom of war memorials as a way of saying we have remember those people who have fought for our Country.

So now I'm ready to celebrate the next ANZAC Day

Harmony day

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On Thursday 19 of March was the Harmony day celebration at TAFE. I went with my teacher and classmates and we enjoyed the performances that other English students did on this special occasion.

It was very interesting. Some students sang in their mother language. Others talked about their experiences in Australia and a Chinese lady played a typical instrument. then every one stood up and sang the National athem, and also all together sang the very famous song "We are Australian".

Finally we enjoyed the cakes, biscuits and food that people brought to share.

Harmony day is a good opportunity to make friends and help people to live peacefully.

Library's tour

As a TAFE student you can borrow items from TAFE library.

You can borrow six books and four audio-videos. You can keep books for two weeks and audio-videos for one week.

The items can be renewed by phone or in the library, also you can renew items twice.

If you want to photocopy and print in the library you have to take your TAFE card and put some many into it, each photocopy costs twenty cents but if you are an Student Association Member you have to pay just half price.

The library opens from 9:00 a.m to 8:00 p.m Monday to Friday and you can return items when the library is open.

You can borrow items from other libraries as well.

The library staff can help you with any additional information that you need.

My country's supertitions

There are a lot of superstitions in my country but the ones that people believe in most are:

At New Year's celebration at 12:00 am, get a suitcase and walk around a couple of streets and come back. It means you are going to travel during the year.

Also open your house front door and sweep to put the old year out and welcome the new one.

Eat twelve grapes and make a wish for each one you eat.

Another one is people should wear yellow under wear to get good luck.

Well there are many more, for example if the day is Tuesday 13 people must be careful because it is a bad luck day or even if someone breaks a mirror they could get seven years of bad luck.

I don't believe in superstitions so I don't worry about it.

Recount about my last weekend

Last Saturday I went to my neighbour's place. They made a barbecue and they invited me and my family. Our neighbours place is a massive flat it is located in the top of a high building it had a big terrace whit an spectacular view.

We arrived at 12:00 p.m first they introduced to us their relatives and friends. Our neighbours are Australians so I had to practice all my English skills and I felt confident. Then I had an interesting conversation with a lady who has been in Colombia a long time ago and although I don't like alcohol I drank a glass of wine because she likes to talk and drink wine.

Then lunch was ready, there was a lot of food and every one served them selves. I was starving so I ate a big piece of meat with salad and vegetables, then a delicious desert that I chose between different kinds of cakes and sweets. After lunch I enjoyed a hot cup of coffee with my neighbour's sister who was interested in my Country, so we were talking of different subjects about it.

Finally we thanked our neighbours for letting us share the afternoon with them. We said good bye to every one.

I had a good time and I really enjoyed being in in my neighbours place with my husband and my kids.

Questios about Marion's Holiday

Hi Marion

I saw your photo album about your holidays, it was an interesting trip congratulations. I would like to ask you some questions:

Did you and your family travel by car or by plane?
How long were you there?
How many waterfalls does Rocky Valley have?
Is Alpine National Park far away from Melbourne?
Did you stay in a hotel or in a caravan?

Recount about Marion's holiday

I went to Marion’s Blog and I viewed the photo album. I saw some photos of Marion and her family on Christmas Holidays.

They traveled To Victoria. First they went to Rocky Valley, I saw a photo of Marion enjoying the beautiful waterfalls and peaceful land escape that Falls Creek had.
Then they visited the Alpine National Park, all of them were interested on a long path through the park so Marion’s daughter and her friend took a photo there.

Finally the travelers went to see the Oldest Cattleman’s Hut; it was another amazing place so they took three interesting photos among the ancient trees.