Jane


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photo coming ...maybe !

Hello everyone ! This is my first attempt at a wiki and I don't have any photos here or anything very exciting so I will just introduce myself by downloading some material I already have on this computer cutting and pasting and then you can get down to doing some real work For those of you who don’t know me I will give you a bit of personal information.

My name is **Jane Huffam** and I have been teaching this class for several years now. Originally, I studied English and History at the University of Tasmania. After that I did a teaching degree and was sent by the Education Department to work in two country schools, first, in Nubeena near Port Arthur and then in Campania near Richmond.

I taught English and Social Science, music – flute and clarinet and various other subjects to high school students. However, I found teaching naughty children was very stressful so when I had enough money saved up and had fulfilled my obligations to the Education Department; I left and went off to explore the world!

I started off in England where I was born and had relatives still and I worked in many different jobs including teaching, waiting, cleaning and working in old people’s homes and travelled to different European countries when I could afford to.

Eventually, I ended up in Barcelona where I did a Diploma in teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language. I got a job teaching adults and loved it! For the following 20 years I lived and worked there, upgrading my qualifications, learning Spanish and Catalan and working in different environments; a business school, the official languages school, the University and also for short periods in Honk Hong and London.

I met my husband Tony, who is English, in Barcelona and some years later, we decided to move to Australia and, more specifically, Hobart where I had been a student

We came back to Hobart 5 years ago and I got a job in TAFE now called the Polytechnic. I love my job and I love Hobart in summer. In winter I find it too cold but I try not to think about it

I like music especially blues and jazz and I sometimes play the saxophone. I like playing tennis too but I don’t have much time to do these things. My ambition is to have more time and to swim in the sea more often ( learn to put up with the cold or buy a better wetsuit)!

Well that was easy when I have some more time I will find a few photos or something to brighten this up a bit ..there is no excuse for such boring presentation these days with all this media at our fingertips literally !... now it is your turn and I am sure you can do better.

cheers

Jane

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...................................................................................................................................................... Describe how people eat in a culture that you know

The most obvious difference between how people eat in Australia and in Spain is in the time of meals. In Spain lunch is often not until two or even three o’clock and dinner may not be until 10 pm or later. When I lived there I finished work at 10.00 so by the time I got home it was 10.30 and we had dinner more or less the moment I came in the door. The restaurants are full from about 10 - 12.
 * How people eat in Spain **

Another difference is that lunch is the most important meal of the day so this is the sit down meal. Now things are changing as Spain tries to become more European in its business practices and timetables so some people may only have an hour for lunch. They may have longer but want to use their lunch time for English classes or something else. Consequently, places which sell rolls, sandwiches, sushi and other non cooked foods are appearing .Traditionally though lunch was a cooked meal and workers were given several hours off for lunch.

At the weekends usually at least one lunch is a sociable time with as many of the family as possible. People often cook together and have plates of seafood or paella which is a rice dish with seafood and or meat cooked in a shallow pan and served from this pan. These sorts of lunches can take hours. They also take place in restaurants as it isn’t expensive to eat out.

Dinner is likely to be light. It could just be bread and cheese and salad or soup or a light cooked meal. If dinner is eaten out it could be tapas which are small serves of different dishes shared among a group of people

Spain has many different regions with quite distinct cultures so the cooking varies considerably from place to place. What it has in common though is that it uses fresh raw ingredients ( bought from beautiful markets) and it takes time and some knowledge of cooking to make. It is healthy and inexpensive so I hope with the more pressured lifestyle nowadays this tradition of slower eating and cooking and tasty ingredients doesn’t disappear.

__ 2. Comments on Insight FLC Task One I watched the Insight program on shopping. This sounds like a boring topic but it is important to me. I like to be able to buy fresh fruit and vegetables and I like shops to support the local community and provide jobs for people. I also think that it is important to have shops in the town center so people do not need to go there by car. It is important to your quality of life to have personalised friendly service in shops and to be able to buy produce that is fresh and grown as locally as possible etc. This program looked at where people shop for groceries and whether or not Woolworths and Coles and the other retail outlets they own, have a monopoly that is damaging to our community. I found it interesting. What I find fascinating too is that on any subject people have such differing opinions!

3. **Comments on an article from the career one website - Are application cover letters out of fashion?** This article stresses the need to send a good cover letter with your job application. At a time where most jobs attract a considerable number of applicants, a cover letter helps a potential employer sift through and identify the candidates that have the most suitable qualities, qualifications and experience. This article shows you that if you don't send a suitable cover letter you are severely reducing your changes of getting a job interview.I think this sort of advice is very helpful.

Technical experiments

Hi this page is for experimenting with photos slide shows and other things like that ( Look in Cool Tools if you want some ideas. Here is my two minute attempt at a slide show. One class we will all bring photos and experiment . But if you want to experiment on your own you could use this page to put them on

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