Days Of My Life From Papua New Guinea to Australia 1968 - 2015

Malum Nalu: Postcards from Lae from the 1950s and 1960s

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Malum Nalu: Postcards from Lae from the 1950s and 1960s: Attractive Coronation Drive, Lae
Bowling green, Lae
Colourful Bretag Park, Lae
Children's pool, Lae Botanical Gardens
Hotel Ceci...

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Last updated Wednesday, 20 August 2014

At the moment I am unable to update this Blog as I have been busy with my Volunteer work at the Cairns RSL Sub Branch and have returned to full time studies for the next 6 months.

You can follow me on Facebook on these Facebook pages that I manage and co manage.

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Australia

Australia - The best Country in the world! owned by Shane Thomas

Cairns RSL Sub Branch

Facebook Wendy J. Seymour RSL and Business related myself linked to my work at the RSL I am trying to get all my family and friends to transfer over to my personal profile from this one.

Wens AussieTravels and General Info owned by Wendy Seymour

Wendy J.Seymour Mobile Babysittingnanny Service info owned by Wendy Seymour

Facebook Wendy Jeanette Seymour only for my Family and Friends to connect with me on there otherwise you can see all my posts to the PUBLIC. Anything to do with BUSINESS you can join me on the Wendy J. Seymour account.

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Business Directory owned by Gail Thomas.

Balus (need to get proper link name) owned by Shane Thomas.

Coffee

Coffee Makes The World Go Round owned by Wendy Seymour

GOOGLE + and YouTube to be updated

LinkedIn to be updated

TWITTER to be updated

I will not be updating this Blog for some time but I will be editing my previous Posts with updated information.

Em tasol til the next update.

Wendy

Tuberculosis Osteomyelitis

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Was Unable To Update This Blog Due To Illness

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My Happy Holidays from 16 December 2012 to 17 January 2013

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To be updated.

Delayed Post from 12 September to 31 December 2012

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Apologises for the delayed posts from 12 September up til now. As I had been busy studying again this time for 9 weeks at the Pimilico TAFE Campus of the Barrier Institute of TAFE.

I was studying a Certificate III in Business Administration, unfortunately could not complete the MYOB part due to a bad back the last 3 week of my course. I will do that externally instead and then I will have completed the whole certificate. If you click on the link it will show you what the course content is all about.

In January 2012 I had officially moved to Cairns was there for about 6 months and then moved to Townsville in mid August. So all the time spent studying and working part time in between had kept me really busy.

On the Monday, 16 December, I decided to go and visit my sister Joanna in Brisbane before heading off to my mother's in country Victoria. You can read all about my Gippsland visit in my PNG and Australia travels. It was also a good break for me to get out of Townsville, for a while as I have had been unsuccessful in gaining full time or part time or casual employment that it had depressed me. Injuring my lower back 3 weeks before my course end did not help either. As it had prevented me from seeking hospitality employment.

Have created a Facebook Page and other Links

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Last updated 17 September 2012 will insert more photos later on.

On the 07 September I decided to create a Facebook Page called Wendy.J.Seymour Casual Mobile Babysitter/Live Out Nanny. I was expecting a lot of work as a babysitter with a couple of childminding services I am currently registered with in Townsville but have not been receiving a lot of work. I was led to believe that there was heaps of work but turns out I was wrong. I have since discovered that there seems to be a bit of a rivalry with a couple of the agents which I am not impressed about. I am there to do a job not bicker about who I work for in order to do child minding that I have decided to advertise myself. In Brisbane some of the child minding services otherwise known as Nanny/Babysitter agencies (or whatever they call themselves) will encourage their casual employers to register with other agencies because they cannot guarantee them full time work. I have signed Confidentiality Agreements so I do know what is expected of me when I work for multiple childminding agencies.

So my Facebook page I have Liked a few Facebook Pages related to Family/Childcare and do website updates on specific information for Families like understanding the difference between Child Care Rebates and Child Care Benefits with the Department of Human Services. The photos that I post are my own.

Here is my Facebook Page - Wendy.J.Seymour Casual Mobile Babysitter/Live Out Nanny

Here is my Gumtree Townsville website Link - ID 1005557475

Find A Babysitter website Link - Wendy 43 Gulliver

A couple more Links to add in here just have to retrieve them.

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My flatmate took this profile pic of me for one of my agent's I have just cropped it so it does not show their logo. I now use this as my profile pic til I get another one done.

Moved To Townsville on 11 August 2012

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Honouring Those Who Served In the Australian Armed Forces - ANZAC DAY 2012 Tribute

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Honouring Those Who Served In the Australian Armed Forces - ANZAC DAY 2012 Tribute

Honouring Those Who Served In the Australian Armed Forces - ANZAC DAY 2012 Tribute

The link is in the title of this POST it will take you direct to those photos that the publlic can access. Bear in mind those photos are copyrighted and I have set it up where no one can copy, download them, etc.

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The New Child Care Education System in Australia brought in 2012

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Last updated Thursday 03 May 2012

Well I must say I am finding the CHC30708 Certificate III in Children's Services very interesting. This year is the year where the new National Quality Framework comes into place for Day Care Centres on a National basis. I thought I would share with you websites that might of interest to you especially those of you with children, grandchildren in Australia and were not aware of the current policies in place at the moment. Click onto the following websites and hopefully it will assist you with any queries you might have at the moment.

Australia's first national Early Years Learning Framework for early childhood educators.

Australian Childcare Educational Care Quality

Early Years Learning Framework For Australia

In Queensland they now have in their curriculum how to work effectively with culturally diverse clients and co-workers. The main focus being on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. After being in Cairns since 13 January 2012 I feel that there are still a lot of non-indigenous/indigenous people out their who do not know anything about cultural diversity or have any understanding of multiculturalism. In the current day care centre where I am working at. When I ask a Group Leader or their assistant the ethnicity of a child I get the response "I don't know?" They cannot tell me if the child is half Aboriginal or Torres Strait islander or of some other ethnicity such as Chinese or Filipino. I am quite fortunate that I lived in a multicultural society in PNG and attended an International primary and high school. Click on to this link to read more about that.

Staying Healthy In Childcare - Preventing Infectious Diseases in Childcare Fourth Edition

Slip, Slop, Slap Campaign - One of the most successful health campaigns in Australia's history.

2012 Starting my new life in Cairns will be remaining here for a year or so

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Last updated Sunday, 15 April 2012 photos to be inserted in here

Self contained Flat part of 4 Unit Queenslander

Well it is official now that I will be remaining in Cairns, Far North Queensland for a year or so. Last Saturday I found a one bedroom self contained unit in Cairns, and will be moving there this Saturday, 25 February 2012. It was quite unexpected of course but I figured it was time I started to settle in somewhere unlike last year. I left Darwin, Northern Territory (NT) officially in July 2011 and moved to Brisbane City, Queensland and lived with my godmother (well in Brisbane with other people in between all the way up to 23 December 2011.) I was in Darwin before that and had rented out a place of my own for a year. Prior to me getting the place two years before that my life was full on with the military so I was looking forward to time on my own and out of a military establishment. Did you think I would had time to myself for a year - NO - it's a long story. So this time, I will be living on my own and having the privacy and time to myself that I had planned two years ago after spending time with the military full time for two years. (That is another story that caused me a lot of grief.)

Thirteen years ago I left Cairns where my life started with the military. Refer to my other Posts in regards to this. This is where my military life began for me at the 51st Battalion Far North Queensland Regiment (51 FNQR). I enlisted at the old what was once known as Porton Depot in Till Street, Westcourt. Now 51 FNQR is called Porton Barracks.

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MY LIFE IN THE AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE (ADF) AS A SERVICE PERSONNEL

My Life In Australia - 1981 - Present Page

Now I have left the military/public sector world and am starting a new career or life in child care. It is like I have done full circle with my first life and am coming back here to start over with my second life. Quite ironic that I end up in Cairns again, which was totally unforeseen. My dearest and bestest friends do not live here any more and I miss them dearly and remember the good and bad times we had here. However now I am relishing the time that I have spent with what I refer to as "quality" time so far with family. The family that I knew from Lae, Papua New Guinea. The Uhr family there are 5 brothers and 1 sister and and now my uncle Bob Uhr along with his sons' wives, who are sister in laws and grand children and great grand children in tow. I will tell you more about them some other time.

I have yet to catch up with other family members and friends from my life in Cairns 23 years ago. This time I intend to make the most of my time here in Cairns. I will definately be doing the touristy stuff here that I did not get to do all those years ago.

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Disclaimer: I accept no responsibility or liability of any loss or any incorrect or out dated information some of these websites may contain. The most accurate up to date information at the time known to me is inserted in these pages. It is the responsibility of the individual to do their own research in their own time. The is just a guide to assist people in giving them as much information as I possibly can on Cairns and surrounding regions in Australia . My views and opinions and experiences will not exactly reflect other peoples' views and opinions and experiences.

Started my new life today in the world of Child Care on Monday, 30 January 2012

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Last updated Sunday, 15 April 2012 will have to insert a couple more photos in here.

Well today I commenced my first child care course in CHC30708 Certificate III in Children's Services with My Other Mum Training College Pty Ltd in Cairns.

I am just amazed at how my fate has operated with me about the last 6 months. I always said that I would do child care in the future and now here I am on my first stepping stone to qualify in this area. The next course I would like to do after that is my Diploma of Children's Services in Queensland.

Originally I was meant to pick up my suitcase that I left a year ago here in Cairns after I had attended my late aunt's funeral. (That's another story I will tell you some other time.) I was going to fly back to Brisbane with the suitcase. It would not have fitted in Jennifer's car anyway. The other alternative was to catch the rail down to Brisbane. Anyway the original plan was that I decided to go to Cairns to visit family and friends as I do not know when I will see them all again, and then return to Brisbane in February 2012.

Whilst in Cairns I discussed with my cousin Elisa that in the future I would like to do my Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Development) where I would become a qualified pre school or kindergarten teacher. My other love is children and I enjoyed babysitting and nannying so I thought hey why not do something I love doing. I had told my American Pie ten years ago that I wanted to be a pre school teacher, and his comment was "Go to work and play all day!" You got that one right honey, definately would love to go to work and play all day. Hopefully play all day with our own baby too one day. Anyway those who are studying a Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Development) now have to have had completed a Diploma in Children's Services. They now also would have to have spent some time in a child care centre whilst studying their Bachelors. So last year I thought I would do the Children's Services courses first and spend some time working in the child centre and that should be a year's credit for me in the Bachelor course where I do 3 years instead of 4. Well the next day Elisa saw advertised in the Cairns Weekender (whatever it is called) Saturday's paper was the course that I was contemplating doing back in Brisbane. Although I have previous babysitting and nannying experience. I had to enrol in the Certificate III in Children's Services because not many parents/guardians/care givers of children will want someone with no formal training to care for their kids. Anyone can say they have years of experience and so forth but now they would have show proof and need to be qualified.

I will be creating a Page (see to your left in regards to these Child Care Courses, etc.)

Disclaimer: I accept no responsibility or liability of any loss or any incorrect or out dated information some of these websites may contain. The most accurate up to date information at the time known to me is inserted in these pages. It is the responsibility of the individual to do their own research in their own time. The is just a guide to assist people in giving them as much information as I possibly can to assist them in preparing for to do a course on child care or give them some information in child care training in Australia . My views and opinions and experiences will not exactly reflect other peoples' views and opinions and experiences.

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