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rach

The Rachel That Refreshes

About Me


ah well, it's been so long since this little blurb thing was updated so now is the time.life is going great, i'm back living in my little old home town of alice, and working for the department of education. My 'title' is Roving ILSS Teacher and what that means basically is I'm a support teacher for remote schools and remote teachers. I travel out to schools on the plenty and sandover highways (long way on dirt roads..) to schools (some are ampilatwatja, alcoota, harts range, utopia..) and then I support the early years teacher with students who are indigenous language speaking students (ILSS). ILSS kids are 6 years old, speak english as a second language etc etc. So i make resources, team teach, model lessons, help with programming, alsorts of stuff. I LOVE IT. it's an awesome job and i'm a lucky girl.I just bought a unit in alice and i'm lving there day dreaming about all the beautiful renovations i'm oging to do when I win the lotto.My boy is working out of town, but he comes in on weekends which is nice. it's not so bad cause i'm out of town for about 4 days out of seven anyway.life is crusing along...

My Interests

having fun with people, the beach, photography and other arty stuff, driving, going places i haven't been before

Music:

very very broad taste. not into top 40's (but I'll know the words), bit of dance, electronica, alternative, acoustic, rock, metal, punk....my radio station varies from fresh to jjj.

Movies:

lots, all time fave is romeo and juliet, alice in wonderland

MySpace Avatars
finding nemo.

MySpace Avatars

Television:

neighbours, simpsons, futrama, daria, all saints

Books:


Heroes:


my mum, my dad, and a lot of my friends and family.

My Blog

the transfer has finally been confirmed..

It's finally official...I'm being transferred to Ali Curung (380kms North of Alice) next term, and for the rest of the year (as long as I don't have a nervous breakdown or something). I'm pretty excit...
Posted by rach on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:59:00 PST

the eviction of the frogs

I've had enough. Throughout the course of today, I have evicted 5 frogs from my bathroom, one from my kitchen, and had one close escape (down the toilet bowl). I gave these frogs a damn good chance. ...
Posted by rach on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:26:00 PST

life for rachel

so, heaps has been going on for little ol' me in the happening place of elliott!! mardi - gras what an awesome night! you missed out, seriously. I've never done something so crazy. Us girls - Ta...
Posted by rach on Mon, 14 May 2007 12:13:00 PST

official announcement

I think it's about time I made the offical announcement. I got a gorgeous new puppy dog. Her name was Molly, and she was the sweetest puppy I'd ever seen. And then, she ran away. She had been chained...
Posted by rach on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:02:00 PST

funny kid moments....

ah, kids are funny little things. read on below for some of my precious 'charges' funny moments...  playing a game with the class, where one student comes to the front and closes their eyes, the ...
Posted by rach on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:09:00 PST

Daly Waters B&S Easter Weekend

There is just event after event after event up here in the territory! I haven't decided just yet if I'm going...but it could be good!!...
Posted by rach on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:41:00 PST

something to look forward to!!

wooooo! something damn exciting to look forward....plans are in the making for ROADTRIPPPPP to Darwin for Hidden Valley! sweeeeettt... Mishy's going to try to fly up to Darwin and I can meet...
Posted by rach on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:22:00 PST

Elliott Mardi Gras

Elliott 3rd Annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Theme Night..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   Saturday April 28th 2007   Men in tights, women in leathe...
Posted by rach on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:37:00 PST

THE EVENT OF THE YEAR!

You wouldn't beleive what event is coming up in my newfound hometown. You're all going to want to come....... The Elliott Hotel Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Theme Night is on the 28th of April, 2007. NO...
Posted by rach on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:23:00 PST

my first blog

        I'm not actually into blogs. I might get into it later.
Posted by rach on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:55:00 PST