Now step to the left...

So, I created this blog. And I like this blog, even love it. But I helped create a new one and I must, to prove how fantastic is it, commit to blogging in that one.

So if you would please turn your mice to the new group blog darwin.uniblogs.org

And if you wish to only read my blogs go there: http://darwin.uniblogs.org/tag/alisons-posts/

Thank you

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T-14 days, and counting...

In about two weeks, I'll leave for Darwin to undertake my second school experience - the second of three primary school practicums - for my two-year post-grad teaching degree. I'm one of at least a dozen uni students doing a Darwin placement, all of us hoping to get a taste for teaching and life up there, with all different communities and demands to Melbourne. Most of us are staying at Darwin Uni (the North Flinders International House I think), with a small group posted at Oenpelli in Arnhem Land (map). I'll be at Karama Primary School (see Karama on this map), but I don't yet know what year I'll be with.

Hopefully, during our stay, we'll get to visit Katherine Gorge and a few other spectacular spots aroundabout, but we've been promised, at the very least, a lovely few weeks of exhaustion and stuffed-ness thanks to the Darwin Festival, Numeracy and Literacy week, nightly food markets, Kunbarllanjnja-Onpelli Open Day (see the flyer, left), and Indigenous Awards (NATSIAA), and more, occuring during our stay.

We're all a bit stressed at the mo - we've got 10 weeks of classes this semester and about 10 assignments too - hopefully I'll get lots done before I go so I can fit in all the fun and required lesson-planning. Of course, there's the stress of doing a job after going all that way.

Hopefully, I'll post something more suspenseful closer to the day. But until then, I'm wearing moccasins and ugly cardies a la Melbourne in July. :)