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Ok, wow... i haven't written in a long time! sorry bout that, everybody. nearly a year..
A lot has happened since then, like i have finished my year at the school, started a traineeship at work (the chemist) and have been volunteering as an aide at the junior campus of Corryong College. Also we have moved to the dairy farm, can't remember if i told you bout that. ok here goes...
About january last year (2008) we started looking at moving from beef farming because it was no longer viable for us to keep going, to dairy farming as it was the best time to enter the market with the price between 43-45 cents a litre. There was a diary farm just across the other side of the river in NSW that was up for auction, great land. A bit run down, but fixable. But the owner wanted more money than anyone would pay for it, so my dad asked if he would be interested in share farming. So after months of working everything out, we moved here. Then of course came the credit crunch and that quickly dropped into recession, and all the milk prices dropped through the floor, first Murray Golbourn and all the other companies followed suit, as they do. But our company was the exception, they were in a contract to us that their prices wouldn't drop below 43 cents for two years. But in the end they had to drop too.
So here we are.
Tomorrow marks one month since the fires. They were worse than Ash Wednesday. Mum said that it would probs be called "Scorching Saturday"... it's actually "Black Saturday". It was devestating, I think that everyone will have someone who was effected by the fires.
Today I was helping at the school, and I love it so much! I'm in one of the Grade 1/2 classes, and there are 2 kids in particular who I just wish I could spend all my time with, 'cos at the moment, they aren't learning anything. One of them just needs to be really pushed, he's just bored now. And the other little girl needs to be pulled out of her dream world and yanked back to earth. You look at her and her eyes are empty; no one is home.
I get so much stuff given to me by the kids that I have to take home! It's so beutiful...
Ah, well, gtg.
xxx
Sarah