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 * Jane 's Page**

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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