I always knew it would be tough coming back to my Dip Ed after a 6 year break. In Queensland the syllabus documents work on a 7 year cycle, which means everything I learned 6 and 7 years ago has changed. The degree I'm doing has changed 5 times since...

Well, for me anyway. I'm about to head off for my first day of school for my final prac *gulp*. I'm very lucky with my school placement, and as a result I'll have had a fairly wide range experience of schools through my four prac's: an elite private...

Yes, I'm just a little bit happy about that. This semester was awful. What with the whole moving thing, M&M starting two new schools, ballet, soccer, swimming, etc etc etc. The exams were awful. Just awful. After the Tuesday...

Over the last 6 weeks our life has been turned upside down again. Hubby's job that we moved here for was made redundant, so it was back to the drawing board, although without the safety net we had last time since 4 months is hardly long enough to...

They had me cornered. I had nowhere to go. And they knew it. One after the other they came to share their stories, show me tins of chickpeas, laptops they'd made, dolls. To tell me stories about the giant that rides the big machines at roadworks. And...