Robin

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2008 letter

August 2007 Dear student, Welcome new students and welcome back existing students. I have written you an on -line letter so that I can put in links to films and pictures. Simply make sure you are connected to the internet and then click on the coloured underlined words to take you to the links. I have been at TAFE for a long time; so long in fact I have just come back from long service leave. My partner Michael and I went to Europe. We had several weeks in the South of France driving along the Dordogne river, Lot river, D’Tarn and Ardech canyons. media type="custom" key="192167"

france holiday http://www.saint-cirqlapopie.com/ view of landscape

The rivers are pristine and the canyons spectacular. We were very impressed by the clean and pretty river ways and of course the medieval villages and castles along the rivers were magnificent. The French are proud of their countryside and it shows. We could take a lesson from the French in maintaining and conserving our waterways! Everything was very clean and there were no ugly billboards and signage along the roads. We took some tiny country roads, trying to get lost, but everything was linked and clearly marked (unlike Italy, where it is very easy to get lost!) The tiny mountain top routes, you couldn’t call them roads, were single lane without barricades. We turned corners and all you could see were the tree tops, I had white knuckles and kept looking for the passenger foot brake! After France we joined up with eight friends for a week, in a villa 12 km south of Florence. The villa was amazing, 7 bedrooms and beautiful gardens and pool. It was very hot in Italy and so very difficult to leave the villa and pool to go exploring! We went to Pisa, Lucca, San Gigimano, Voltera and of course explored the pretty Chianti wine country around Florence. Michael was a star and even managed several museums and galleries in Florence. notes on Umbria After a week we left our friends and headed north, looking for some cooler weather. We loved Verona and its amphitheatre, Lake Garda and Lake Lugano in Switzerland. media type="custom" key="192133" <see the video of italy Switzerland made us giggle; it is true about Swiss efficiency! Everything was motion censored, latest technology, clean and efficient. We toured the three Belenzone castles and enjoyed the boats and ducks on the lakes. Then we drove to Ancona on the East Italian coast to catch the ferry to Split, Croatia. We joined up again with our friends and hired a 50 foot catamaran to sail the Croatian islands. We swam in little bays everyday, with dolphins, and explored islands and villages in the afternoon and evening.

media type="custom" key="197357" Then we flew to France where we met up with my childhood best friend for her 40th birthday in Paris. The restaurant was everything you imagine a French restaurant to be, in fact they filmed ‘//As good as it gets’// there. We walked and walked all over Paris to museums and galleries and simply enjoyed the romantic atmosphere and architecture.

Enough about me, I hope I haven’t made you too envious? That was not the intention but to share my wonderful experiences. Apart from travel my interests are: squba diving, photography, reading and script writing. Please email a letter back to me. My email address is flossytogo@hotmail.com. Could you tell me something about your interests and goals so that I can incorporate them into our classes this semester? Tell me about your last holiday and if it was too long ago to remember, buy a lotto ticket **__today__** and tell me about your dream holiday! Possible topics to include in your letter: Your background- where you were born grew up, family, kids…. What have you studied before? Did you enjoy it? Why/ why not? What have you enjoyed studying? (existing students) What did you do in computer last semester? How do you like to learn? In teams, on your own with a book, hands on, through projects? Do you have any project ideas or skills you would like to learn this semester/ in general? Would you like to: do digital photography and image manipulation, movie maker, web pages. for examples click here http://pegasus.challengertafe.wa.edu.au/photo/GIMP-Tutorials/ For ideas check out the web page: http://cgea.wikispaces.com these are 2 photos I have put together to make my friends look like they are in Venice.

before manipulation after manipulation  Do you know where the photo was taken? Please feel free to ask me any questions and write your letter just as you talk, I don’t expect formal written English.

my grumpy family! media type="custom" key="2743425" turn up the volume it's funny!

I look forward to getting to know you all.

Best wishes Robin J