Take 2.

 

Take 2.

So, after having been away with the family on holidays for the past ten days or so, it is time to resume my blog for the second half of the semester.

It is my aim to further enhance my writing and deepen my analysis of the lectures as well as involve more stories of interest so as to improve on my first round mark and hopefully do as well as i can in the jour1111 course.

Before embarking on our road trip to Tamworth to visit my mum's sister's family together, I was able to spend a brief period of time on the farm at home. I love it there so much; the open spaces, sitting on the drive and watching our little piece of the world, so beautiful and peaceful. I am very lucky to have been able to grow up there.

I took some photos of the cattle and farm to write about in this blog, to show where I have come from and how it is quite different to the pasts of many of my fellow jour1111 students.

The cattle are my parents second job. They both grew up on farms from further up the road, not too far away from our place now. The weekends have always seen cattle work, checking on adjistment paddocks and maintaining the fences and other bits and pieces involved with owning land. I was always involved a little, not near as much as my brother is now, partly because of the fact that I am a girl and was required to help clean the house but also particularly because of the fact that I have alwaysd been very study orientated. I always wanted to do my best at school and as I got older this urge only increased to the point where the majority of my time last year during year twelve was put into achieving the best I possibly could.

Its funny though, now that I am growing into a young adult, how much I feel it is a part of who I am, what essentially makes me. The chance to go home is always something I very much look forward to, I miss it immensly. Having to leave seems to be just as hard each time but as my mum says to me, its not forever and you can always come back.

Here are a couple of photos...

Josie.



The Farm.



 



Dad's vegie patch.

 

 

 My Sister & I.