This is "A" Block where the Commerce & Technology Division is located. I am in the Business Section, which is on the top floor at the right of the photo. Sometimes when arriving early in the morning there are wild kangaroos grazing in the area to the left of the photo. WCIT is surrounded by bushland, and had two bushfires very close to it in 2010. Every summer we are on alert for snakes, not only outside, but last year we had one in a ground floor staffroom.
Monday, 26 November 2012
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This is "A" Block where the Commerce & Technology Division is located. I am in the Business Section, which is on the top floor at the right of the photo. Sometimes when arriving early in the morning there are wild kangaroos grazing in the area to the left of the photo. WCIT is surrounded by bushland, and had two bushfires very close to it in 2010. Every summer we are on alert for snakes, not only outside, but last year we had one in a ground floor staffroom.
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Wild kangeroos that sound so cool to my ears, but when i came to the part where you explain that you have to be on youre alert for snakes, that sounds a little scary to me. Did you catch the snake in staffroom ? : ) How do you prepare before a meeting with a poisonous snake?
ReplyDeleteWonderful place. How big is a wild kangaroo ??
ReplyDeleteAre they friendly ?? Or are the like to boxing people :D ?
I have wild mooses outside my house, they come running down the street 5 at a time. We also have raindeers. We both live in wild countries :) The most irritating insects we can find in my school are banana flies, they occupy the waste baskets looking for fruit.
ReplyDeleteThe kangaroos are usually relaxed and grazizng on the grass, so they do not stand to their full height. There appear to be aboyut .75 metres high when grazing. They are scared of humans, but you can get up to a few metres away beofre they bound away.
ReplyDeleteSnakes - it is snake season now and all staff have been warned that snakes have been seen in the bush surrounding our car parks and buildings. They are usually dugites, which are extremely poisonous, and can be fatal to the youg, elderly and pets. As we teach Conservation and Land Management at West Coast Institute of Training, we have two registered snake handlers on staff. It is illegal to kill any wild animal in Australia, hence the outcry over the shark attacks here.
Wild moose - my, they would be dangerous if angry!!!
Beverley
Snake season you say, extremely poisonous !! I think i might wait for a trip to Australia right now ; )
DeleteSnakes are quite shy really - they will run away from any 'danger' to them.
DeleteExcept the tiger snake - I thought they were called 'tigers' because they are striped, but they are the only WA snake that will aggressively attack if disturbed.
Come for a visit Jonas, and I can show you snake country!! You could even train as a smek handler, as we are not allowed to kill them.
Bev
I'm not really so scared of snakes except of course the dangerous ones. And sure wood like to visit Australia sometime.
DeleteWe have lots of deers here as well beautiful animals. I sadly enough had to experience how it feels like to run over one with my car . It came out of nowere right in front of my car, i stamped as hard as i could on the brake but it was to late and i smashed right in to it with a fatal ending. I was kind of shocked by the incident. Nothing happened with me but the car got a crashed light and damages for 65 000 swedish krona. Luckily for me the incurance company paid for it. If i had smash into a wild moose it probably wood have been me ending up in the graveyard.
ReplyDeleteAt least you were OK. I was in a car that hit one up in the north of WA. We were lucky that we were not hurt, as they are so large their momentum can carry the body straight up and through the windscreen. We are told in Australia not to drive in kangaroo territory at dawn or dusk as they like to lie on the warm roads, and when they see a car they do not always hop away from it. The one we hit hopped for almost 300 metres along the middle of the road instead of just getting off the road.
DeleteDo you eat deer? Kangaroo is quite popular here as it is a very lean meat. I cannot eat it though, because when I was a child it was only used for dog food!
Personally i dont eat deer. But we have the dish in some restaurants here in sweden.
DeleteHave you learn something when you was young in school about Sweden Beverley ?
ReplyDeleteI wonder if its true that ABBA was bigger in Australia then Beatles and Rolling stones was togheter ??
In that case ABBA must have been veeery popular.
Hi Mats
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in school (last century!!) we did not learn anything about Sweden or Scandinavia in general. Since the Australian-born Princess Mary joined the Danish royal family, we now regularly get Danish TV shows, and just recently, the Danish/Swedish 'The Bridge". That made me investigate Sweden a bit more. Your country is so close to Denmark, and, from the show, it appears that the two languages are very similar. If you speak one, do you automatically understand and speak the other?
ABBA - I love them - I remember my best friend's brother saying when they toured here in the early 80s saying it would be a good night to break into houses in Perth because everyone would be at the ABBA concert!!
Very nice reading Beveley!
ReplyDeleteI think the Danish language is closer to German so it can be hard to understand. But a lot of word is simular
Norweigian its much easier to understand, but not the dialect from the north part of norway.(They have 2 dialects Bokmal or Nynorsk).
Yes Abba is great. One of my best friend have Frida from Abba as a guest on her restaurant for a couple of months a go.
She was very easy going and ask my friend for her name.
My friends name is Ulrika and Fridas comments it an sayed : You have the same name as my sons girlfriend. :D
How is it with the aborginees in your country ??
Are they very segregated in your society ?? I feel very sad for them.
This is a very sensitive issue in Australia - there are many opinions about their treatment and their behaviour, and whether Australia can ever find a solution to the ongoing problems. Some towns in northern Western Australia have now banned alcohol due to the problems this causes with Aboriginals. There does not seem to be a complete solution at all. They are under-represented in society (employment, education) and over-represented in prisons. We even have 'substantive equality' to try to engage them as productive members of (Western) society - in order to be treated equally, some may need to be treated differently. You could write books on this issue, but again, there appears to be no clear solution as there are so many different issues affecting them in so many different ways.
ReplyDeleteMats, this will probably be my last post, as I am going oversaes tomorrow. Thank you for the opportunity to enter this virtual classroom, and I hope our little community of practice can keep in touch through emails afterwards. Have a happy and safe Christmas and New Year - try to find the song '6 white boomers' and think of us in the heat on Christmas Day.
Beverley
I listened to the song 6 white boomers nice song! And merry Christmas to you Beverly.
DeleteThank you very much for taking time.
DeleteAll the best to you.
Mats.