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Class in Australia
October 28th, 2009 by allyrock
Yesterday I had the priviledge to be a guest speaker in a “year 11″ class in Australia. My mentorship teacher from Boston was doing something with this class from Austalia and invited me to join in one day. It sounded like a lot of fun so I did. It was very interesting. I introduced myself first and they proceded on asking me questions, alot of questions. I did my best to answer all of them like what sports we play, how cold it is here, what we do on weekends, what our schools are like, what are homes are like, and many other things. We had a lot of fun talking with each other and I LOVE their accent. We ended up talking for an hour. I told them that I wanted to eventually go to Australia and they couldn’t figure out why. They also asked me about what it was like in university and why it was fun. I told them, and asked them if they were planning on going to university and they all said no which was very surprising to me. They said the nearest university was too far away..3 hours. I found this kind of funny because i know alot of people who live farther then tghat away from home. I live 2 1/2 hours away, but I guess their culture and stuff is just different. Anyways I found this experience so much fun and very interesting, it is so much different there than here, if you ever get the chance to do something like this, i believe you should definately do it.
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on November 3rd, 2009 at 2:00 am
Wow, that sounds really interesting Ally! I wish I could do something like that with my mentors. How did you guys deal with the time change? Was it hard to figure out or kind of straight forward?
on November 3rd, 2009 at 4:40 pm
The time change was so confusing. I was onling at 7pm our time. They were online at 11 am the next day. It was really hard trying to find a time that worked for everyone but luckily it eventually worked out it was a lot of fun.
on November 8th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Hey ally, im one of the students from hawkesdale you were talking to the other week. i’d like to thank you for taking the time to talk us. we all really enjoyed it and were interested in what you had to say.
on November 8th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
hello it was very good talking to and learing about you. you were very good at talking it was clear and you were very good at keeping the conversation moving along. to talk fo how long you did was a very good effort. i would just like to say thank you
on November 8th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Hello Ally, i would just like to thank you for taking the time to talk to us about your life and answer all the questions we had. it was really interesting to see how different your life is to ours. we all enjoyed it
on November 8th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
G’day Ally, its Tom N from Hawkesdale college, the school that you talked to afew weeks ago. I found it interesting how different it is in Canada where you live compaired to Australia where we live. thank you for sharing how your accounting system works it was very valuable to us students studying units 1+2 accounting.
on November 8th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Hey Ally,
i would just like to thank you for taking the time to talk to us and answer all our questions we had for you. I found it a interesting and fun experience and would totally do it again. If you ever come over to Australia, you will have to come visit us
Once again thanx heaps
-Billie-Paige
on November 8th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Hey its Kelly..i was one of the students you spoke to from Australia
we really enjoyed speaking to you Ally. We were very interested in finding out about your culture and what you guys like to do over there.
It would be great if you were to come visit us sometime soon
thank you for your time Ally …
on November 8th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Thanks everyone from Hawkesdale, I really enjoyed talking to all of you. You were all so interesting it was a lot of fun and I’ll be sure to come visit when I hopefull get to Austrailia.
on November 9th, 2009 at 6:56 am
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on November 9th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Guess the teacher nearly always has the last say, but I would like to endorse the students’ remarks. I couldnt work out why they werent working the chat more at the beginning but they were intent on just listening to you and trying to understand your accent.
When it was finished, they asked if they could chat again sometime with you. You did an amazing job, just talking all the time and keeping the conversations going. My students are still a little shy of the microphone.
I also loved it when you were puzzled that they did not want to go to university as that was very motivational for them. Most of our students live on farms or small country towns. There are some smaller universities closer and some of our students have gone on to university and loved their time there as well. Anyway thank you again, Ally, and if ever you have time to talk again, let us know.
It is rather amazing that we do live in your future, that we are often in different days and times, but we still can connect and share both similarities and differences.
on November 17th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Wow Ally, looks like you made some friends haha. Im hoping to try and Skype with a school from California, I hope it goes as well as yours did.
on November 18th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
I would love to chat with you guys again. I had a lot of fun talking with you guys and found it very interesting! Let me know if you would like to chat again.
on November 18th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Skype is super easy to figure out and it works really well i’m sure you’ll have a good experience it’s alot of fun.