7 things you don’t need to know about me
For the second meme, I was tagged by Anne Mirtschin I think it began earlier in December on Twitter but I couldn’t find the originator of the meme.
I have to tell you seven things about myself that you don’t need to know and then pass this on to seven more blogger/ educators.
Wow , 7 things you don’t know about me … thinking …. thinking ….
1. For 15 years I used to call round dances. What is that you say? In square dancing, you often have dances in between brackets called round dances. They are similar to ballroom with waltz, two step, foxtrot, tango, cha cha, rumba and so on. Well I had to stand up on stage using a microphone to call out the moves for the dancers. I also ran my own round dance club and taught couples how to round dance.
2. I represented Australia Girl Guides at two different camps overseas in Hong Kong and Fiji. This was in the early 1970’s, once as a Guide and once as a leader.
3. For many years, I was an amateur radio operator especially for Girl Guide and Boy Scout events called Jamboree on the Air, now also called Jamboree on the Internet. I used to attend yearly gatherings over the Christmas/New Year period and stay up all hours talking to people around the world.
4. I have eaten raw whale blubber while on a trip to Alaska. I flew into Point Barrow with three other people from our bus tour. The Inuit people there were holding a festival that day and asked us to join in by eating some raw blubber. Never again.
5. I have had a very settled life – born and lived in the same area for over 50 years – had only two paying jobs in my life – taught in only three schools since 1977.
6. I enjoy travelling and have had three around the world trips so far as part of my long service leave. Only two continents I have not visited are Antarctica and South America.
7. While travelling, I have climbed through a pyramid in Egypt but not me in the link, rafted down a shallow river in Alaska and traced my family back to the 1600’s in Bedfordshire, England.
Remember to link back to this post when you write your post.
Now who do I tag? Our school chaplain Naomi, some of the teachers I collaborated with in the student blogging competition Stora Ines, Jan , Angela and Kimberley , a couple of local Tasmanians Ros and Angela
In my whole 52 years, I have only had two paying jobs, as a teacher since leaving university and for a few weeks between college and university, I worked as a computer operator at the Zinc Works factory near Hobart. I found this to be a fairly monotonous job, making cups of tea and coffee and adding data to a computer using the old punch card system.
