Can you remember when you were young? The excitement of Christmas? The presents? The family meals? The hot summer sun? Today we are blogging about the way we celebrated Christmas when we were little compared to the way we celebrate now…
 
Christmas when I was growing up and now is our blog this week. 
When I was little I would have all my family over for Christmas and we would have lots of food and great fun together.
My Pa would come with Grandma and Sarah my sister would be there with mum and dad. There would be many gifts under the tree I would be the first one to open the presents and then watch everyone else open up their gifts. This special day was the happiest day for me as I had all my family with me and would have the best lunch. Ham on the bone, chicken, pork and roast vegetables and for dessert we would have pavlova and plum pudding with custard and cream.
Our Christmas tree was covered in lots of decorations and ribbons with lots of lights on the tree and I would help mum to decorate and try not to tangle the lights. This is such a fun and happy time shared with all.
This year for Christmas I don't know what we will be doing but I am sure it will be as good as the last Christmas get together.
Signing off for now, have a fantastic Christmas with your families, Nick.
 
I was a little boy mum giving me a presents for Christmas and we get to the Santa photo too.  When I was a big boy I would go to the shopping centre to get stuff for Christmas.
I have been making the Christmas tree decorations and it was good fun.
This year we are going out for lunch with my nana and poppy for Christmas lunch. 
We will be giving each other presents, it will be fun.
This is Korey signing off and wishing Happy Christmas to everyone.
 
Today's blog is now and then Christmas.
When I was a little girl I loved Christmas time. I have the best memories full of happy moments, excitement and of course lots of presents. I always found it hard to fall asleep on Christmas Eve because I was just too excited and couldn't wait for Santa to come visit. Before bed I would leave out some milk and cookies for Santa and a carrot for the reindeers, sometimes even some candy canes. When I woke up I would run to mum and dad's room and wake them up so we could go look at the tree together. I would get presents from Santa, mum and dad, friends and family, my brothers would also get presents. I loved spending the day with my family and it was usually held at my house. My mum makes the best Christmas lunch with roast pork and roast veggies, she makes yummy crackle which is my favourite! We also have Christmas ham which is also yum, roast lamb and salads. Mum makes Christmas pudding and a few other desserts as well. Our family tradition is to watch Christmas movies together which is really nice. My Christmas as a child was amazing and I have good memories, but my Christmas now really hasn't changed much.
I love Christmas it's my favourite holiday. I'm looking forward to Christmas this year and my presents, I will get heaps. I like to be a Christmas angel and superstar.
This is Claire signing off, see you next week.
 
 
Dear readers, this week’s topic is Christmas then and now. Let me start by telling about Christmas then and now for me. It is now so different from when I was younger. When I was younger it felt very magical to me because I remember waking up and going to wake up my parents and my sister and being really happy and excited about opening Christmas presents. The night before writing our Christmas letters to Santa and telling him what we wanted for Christmas was really fun and exciting too. Now Christmas I am older and it feels like an emotional roller coaster and stressful. Now I need to remember and think what  to buy for my family as Christmas presents. Now, going to the shop is a different story and don’t even get me started on how busy, crazy and crowded the shopping centres are. That’s why I do my shopping one month earlier every year now. 
Written by Charlotte 
 
When I was a child growing up in Jakarta, Christmas felt magical. My parents took my brother and me to a “Snowing Christmas with Snoopy” meet and greet at the mall. I still remember the photo from that day, and the fake snow falling outside the mall. They were selling lots of Snoopy merchandise, and my mum bought me a Snoopy colouring book, a pencil case, and a mechanical pencil. The mechanical pencil was actually a Christmas present, so it wasn’t really a surprise  but I still loved it so much.
At my school in Jakarta, we had a belated Christmas celebration after New Year. I enjoyed watching people sing, dance, and act in the Christmas drama. Only students who liked performing joined in, so it was fun to watch. For lunch we got fast food like KFC, Popeyes, and A&W. We also received goodie bags filled with snacks and a little gift, like a lunch bag or something we could keep.
When I moved to Melbourne, Christmas at school felt different. Every class from Prep to Grade six had to perform at the Carols Night. I didn’t like being the centre of attention, but I’m still proud of myself for participating with everyone. Classes were called in random order, and even the teachers performed. After the performances, all the families had a picnic. My parents, brother, and I sat together with my relatives, eating snacks and drinking soft drinks.
Back then, my family also visited my relatives’ house for Christmas. We exchanged presents, and I remember my cousin loved writing letters to Santa. One time she showed me she got The Wiggles SingStar game. While waiting for dinner, my brother and cousin played PlayStation, and I just watched them.
Nowadays, Christmas feels different. I usually attend the Umbrella Support Christmas party. Their parties are always successful. Last year, some of my friends sang Christmas carols as they enjoyed being the centre of attention. We also got presents from Santa, and there were games and crafts. I honestly prefer the Umbrella Support party over work Christmas lunches, because it feels more lively and fun, not just sitting and chatting.
Christmas with my family is quiet now that we’re older. It’s usually just my parents, my grandma, and me at home.
I like sending my relatives in Australia electronic Christmas cards because it’s easy and I don’t need to buy cards or stamps. My relatives in Indonesia also send me Christmas greetings and stickers, even though most of them don’t celebrate Christmas. They’re very thoughtful. I do have one aunty on my mum’s side who celebrates Christmas, but she is usually busy during the season.
What is your favourite thing about Christmas? Tell me in the comments please!
Thank you very much  it’s Jacinda signing off.
 
When I was little I liked Santa but then I pull Santa beard and I realised they’re fake Santa. I was like “oh you’re fake and middle of age” I remember Santa's helper was fake.  Oh come on. Anyway, it’s Christmas still so I have to get in Christmas picture oh lord.
TJ
 
Dear readers, how are you today?  Today's topic is what Christmas was like when I was growing up and I have chosen to write about when I was little. At Christmas time my Aunty and Uncle and my cousins, Nan and Grandad would come to my house and the house was all decorated. The table was set up with decorations and so was the tree and presents under the tree. We opened some of our presents and then it was time for dinner. For dinner we had roast chicken, roast pumpkin, mash potatoes, veggies and yorkshire pudding and gravy. For dessert it was sticky date pudding with ice cream and warm custard. This year I have no idea what Christmas will be like but I am still looking forward to presents under the tree and spending the day with my family. 
Christmas time as an adult is so different from when I was a child but I still love Christmas and I can't wait for it to arrive, because my birthday is the month after it. 
Readers what will your Christmas be like? Will it be stress free and on budget? I asked Google for some ideas to keep Christmas stress free, plan ahead and get organised, set a realistic budget, delegate tasks, set boundaries and say no if you need to. 
Bethany
 
When I was a little boy we didn’t really celebrate Christmas but my mum would cook a special meal and sometimes we had friends come for lunch.
Now I am an adult we go to my sisters house and she cooks us a special meal. My support worker takes me shopping to buy Christmas gifts for my family and friends. This year is a bit sad as my mum won’t be here but I will be celebrating with my dad, sister and her family and my friends. 
How are you celebrating Christmas?
From Ben

We’re in charge of Christmas!
 
Imagine this! You and you alone are in charge of the entire Christmas Day celebrations. What would you eat, wear, wrap, and what would you arrange for all of your guests?
 
Christmas is fast approaching! 
 
As usual December has come at us with the speed of Usain Bolt going for another record. 
I'm never quite ready for the chaos that is December, with the Christmas shopping and everyone being in a mad rush for everything. 
 
I suppose it's the Christmas spirit and festivities that gets the fire going in everyone which is understandable because now I'm planning Christmas Day, so I get to join the chaos. I'm going to do a Christmas lunch and everyone will bring a plate of their favourite food to share. 
 
The Christmas decorations will be sparkly and rainbow because you can never have enough sparkle or rainbows, I'll even put up and decorate a rainbow Christmas tree. Plus, every guest gets to take their favourite decorations home with them because I like sharing and gifting. There will be beverages of all kinds in sparkly cups that the guests can also take home. 
 
Honestly it will just be a super magical time that will start at 11am and finish at 1pm because after a magical Christmas lunch I may need a nap. 
Did I mention the guests are the people who read our blogs? Yeah, that's right you! How exciting! 
 
Honestly, I'm not at all great at planning things but I'd put so much love into this lunch that as I said I'll need a nap after. Ha ha. Have a super wonderful day my friends! 
 
Your friend and Christmas lunch host, Shan. 
 
 
It’s December! Have you all done your Christmas shopping yet?
My Christmas season will be quiet and cozy. The people at our family Christmas dinner will be my parents, my grandma who lives overseas, and me. Back in primary school, I used to visit my relatives’ house, but that was a long time ago. Now that I’m an adult, Christmas is just with my parents and grandma. I still text my relatives to wish them a Merry Christmas, though.
The dinner will be at our house. Actually, my grandma doesn’t celebrate Christmas only New Year and Lunar New Year because in Indonesia only Catholic and Christian people celebrate Christmas. But she still wished us a Merry Christmas and gave me a hug and a kiss. We include her in our Christmas dinner and usually give her something small.
We will eat roast chicken, potatoes, broccoli, and carrots. There will be rice too, even though it’s not really part of Christmas food. Dad will do the cooking, and grandma suggested we should include vegetables rather than just meat.
While Dad is busy preparing dinner, I will do some colouring in my room. Mum will choose a Christmas playlist, and we usually just listen to whatever she picks. Grandma will sit in the dining room and text her family and friends on WhatsApp.
Then Dad will call everyone when dinner is ready. I will help carry the food to the living room and maybe help set up the table. Once the food is on the table, I will put all the empty plates out I’ll use my Minnie Mouse dinner plate. I’ll sit next to Grandma, and Dad will sit with Mum.
I need to be patient, especially during Christmas, while waiting for a group photo and before we pray. We don’t usually pray at casual dinners, but this time Dad says a prayer in his own words and then says the Our Father in Indonesian. After that, we can enjoy our dinner.
After dinner, there will be a group video call from my relatives wishing us a Merry Christmas. Only one of my aunts celebrates, and the rest are Buddhist. I also exchange text messages with my cousins. 
This year, I hope to get a twelve pack of pastel Faber Castell pencils in a tin. I feel anticipation about unboxing my Kris Kringle gift, and I’m also happy that Christmas at home is quiet and not too overstimulating.
Thank you for reading. Sending love to everyone who lost loved ones this year. This is Jacinda, your friend anticipating Christmas, signing off.
 
 
I got my Christmas list for Christmas Day.
I want to get a slaughter to Prevail t-shirt, I prevail violent nature on on cd, Falling in Reverse Popular Monster on cd, Silent Hill hd collection on ps3, the Quarry on PS4, Chucky season 3 on dvd, Parkway Drive Darker Still on cd, Slipknot Sid Wilson funko pop and the Walking Dead - Destinies on Nintendo Switch.
Tell me about what you are going to organise for Xmas for your family?
I’m going out for the lunch with my Nana and Poppy and we will be having pork, lamb, potato broccolini and chicken.
Korey
 
Today’s blog topic is if I was in charge of Christmas what would I do. 
This year I'm planning Christmas and we're going on a Disney cruise leaving from the Bahamas. The cruise will go for seven nights and stop at Castaway Bay the special Disney island! My mum, dad, brothers and some cousins will come along with me. On Christmas Day I will open my presents in my cabin with all my family, and they will open theirs too. Christmas lunch will be in the buffet so there are lots of options, I will fill my plate up with roast pork, roast lamb, roast ham, seafood, salad, arancini, spring rolls and whatever else I see that looks yummy. For desserts I need to have Christmas pudding! I'll also have some pavlova, cheesecake, fruit, chocolate mousse and donuts. At night time the Disney cruise will host a big party. We will have dinner first in a nice restaurant, then we will go do some dancing. A band will be playing all my favourite Christmas songs, I will sing with them and dance too.  There will be fireworks on the deck that go for so long and will be amazing. After the party ends I will go back to my cabin and watch a Christmas movie.
This is Claire signing off, see you next week.
 
What would I do for Christmas? I would give people presents. And I would give presents to some of my friends, and l would have pizza to eat with all my friends and pies and chips. Then I'm going to have lemonade drink.
Ben2
 
If I was in charge of Christmas,  
I’ve always wanted to have a white Christmas, but in Australia it’s summer.
Unless I travel to the United States of America or the United Kingdom. 
So I would magically spray the whole of Australia in snow, so everyone can experience a white winter wonderland.  
On Christmas Eve I would help out at a soup kitchen, because I think Christmas time is about giving instead of receiving and everyone deserves to feel special around Christmas. Especially kids. 
Then on Christmas morning, I would spend my time giving gifts to kids at a park so they can all enjoy the presents with each other. 
I would get Santa to pop in as well.
 
For Christmas lunch I would have Christmas at my parents house, with a bucket of KFC chicken, roast pork in the Webber and just your normal Australian salads and sides. 
After lunch, we all sit down in the lounge room with the cats and we all pick a Christmas movie to watch, I picked a horror Christmas movie, mum picked a comedy Christmas movie and dad picked an Australian Christmas movie. All so different but just spending the day with the family is really all you need. 
Before we go looking for Christmas lights, we go visit everyone in the family who has passed away, we would place a bunch of flowers next to their graves. And one at the beach where we scattered one of my nannas ashes.  
Again I think Christmas is about being selfless and giving, and just spending time with all of the people you care about. 
Christmas night, we would go and look at Christmas lights, then we would go and sit somewhere where we can watch the beach waves and make a wish that everyone else who is waking up on Christmas Day have a great day with family and no sadness at all.
Well that is my Christmas if I was in charge of Christmas.
Just remember Christmas is about giving and kindness. 
Merry Christmas from Haley.
 
Today’s topic is about Christmas and in my family, December is one of the worst months ever. It’s because I’ve got a cousin’s birthday on the 22nd and the 25th and the 28th and of course me on New Year’s Eve but saying that, Christmas means everything to me. We see the family we have a good laugh, have good food and interacting with the family members that we don’t normally see.  Where would I have it in the world? It would still be Australia because I love summer as it’s hot. I have some beers. Maybe we have some prawns on the barbie and I really enjoy the summer time when it’s Christmas. It’s because you can swim by the pool. go to the beach whatever but it’s amazing. The food would be cold meat like ham, salami, chicken, and turkey and for dessert trifle, pavlova, ice cream mousse, fruit salad.  We do secret Santa or Kris Kringle on Christmas morning is the best time because I like to see all my siblings open their Christmas presents and see what they got.  That just brings so much happiness and enjoying my life
Ash.
 
Well I like do Christmas stuff, a good present is nice and summer is cool.  Food is good, pork and chicken and beef with gravy. It’s so yummy with sweet potato and Christmas cup cakes.  We go on family Christmas and friends Christmas, all my family need to get Christmas clothes too good fun, beer and all stuff party. 
Christmas is a beautiful day for summer from your good friend TJ. 
 
 
Dear readers, this week’s topic is if you were in charge of Christmas. 
Let me start by telling you about if I was in charge of Christmas. I would not be in charge of Christmas and I would let my mum organise it all.  Instead, I would go on a holiday to Europe for five weeks and I would start by going to Paris followed by Italy, Rome, Greece, Germany and Hungary.  I would spend every week exploring and doing fun stuff like shopping, going to Disneyland in Paris  going to the top of the Eiffel Tower, Venice, the Colosseum, Mount Olympus, Athens, Munich and Budapest and at each place I would find a restaurant or cafe to eat and drink European food. After five weeks I would fly back home and I would be sitting in first class on the way back home, and when I arrive at my family‘s house, I would give everyone a present that I bought back for them.
Readers I have a question what would you do if you were in charge of Christmas? 
Written by Charlotte 

It’s our choose your own adventure week and we love it! It’s like a free ride at our favourite theme park on a sunny day! That means we are smiling and very much enjoying our own time of freedom….
 
 
 I am so lucky today I get to talk about my holiday in Japan.
For two weeks I went to Japan with my family this month. We had to fly early in the morning but left home very early for the airport. Mum, Dad, my niece and I were in the car together.
I love to fly because I have heaps of food and lots of drinks which is great. I always love to fly.
Sometimes I'm scared but sometimes I'm not.
We stayed in a lovely big hotel and I stayed with mum and dad, and breakfast downstairs everyday.
The weather was warm so I made sure to wear a Disney top each day.
The food was so good. My favourite was the sushi train because I choose what I want to eat. I used chopsticks and also gifted chopsticks to my friends at blogging.
I went to Tokyo Disney and the fireworks were amazing. The tea cups and the Beauty and the Beast ride is the best, it is the story of Beauty and the Beast as a ride in a tea cup. I love it. I got lots of photos and when I look at them they make me smile and happy. I rode the big thunder mountain at night time. Mum saw Minnie Mouse and I saw Mickey, Cinderella, and Tiana from Princess and the Frog.
I went on the bullet train from Tokyo to a lovely place, it was beautiful and very very fast. I fell asleep.
I am also very lucky that I went on the last Disney cruise from Australia, ever. I hope they come back but if not I am sure to travel somewhere to get on another Disney cruise.
I don't have my next holiday booked, but, I will soon and will be sure to let you know.
Thank you, Claire.
 
 
We woke up at dawn, time to hit the road to Western Australia. 
Dad packed all of his gold detector and stuff, we buckled in and were off.
I fell asleep and suddenly we were there. We set up camp and off we went to find gold. We walked for ages and we found a little creek, and started to pan for gold in there. We were panning for about forty five minutes,  I shook my pan and searched for a speck of gold in my panning plate. I had quite a bit of specks of gold in there. I got my squeezey bottle to suck up the speck of gold.
We had lunch then we took off further into the bush. 
We both took out our gold detectors and started to search for anything in the ground, dad’s detector went beep beep beep, which means there’s something in the ground. I dropped my detector and started to dig where dad was swinging his detector.  Every clump of dirt that I put to the side, dad would go over it with the detector, nothing, so he swung it over the hole, again it went beep beep beep. I dug deeper. The last clump of dirt I dug out my dad swung his detector over it again. And it went beep beep beep.  I broke the clump of dirt down. And finally we found a small nuggets of gold.  Which was great. A small piece of gold ranges from $1000 to $5000. 
It was getting late, we headed back to camp and cooked dinner, faced time my mum and told her we found specks of gold and a small sized nugget. I slept with the nugget under my pillow. The next morning we drove home and unpacked the car. We took the gold nugget into a gold shop to our surprise the price in gold went up to $8,000 -$10,000 dollars. 
We both smiled cashed the nugget in and we got $8,999 just for a small gold nugget. 
We halved the money, 
I brought a Maine coon which was a Smokey colour. And my dad took my mum on a holiday to Singapore for a few days.
Talk about how a little bit of work, has paid off. 
Haley 
 
Last week I finally finished off my animation, other people will be able to watch it, and there is a presentation to see my animation.
It’s hopefully good and the animation people will love it.  How great they might think it was made by Pixar or Dreamworks or whatever.
I was so clever to be using blender in 3D animation, it is better at stop motion animation. 
I made my new intro for my animation but this is the best 3D animation I have ever done. 
The other people give subscribe and click below and they give the 42 subscribers and they got the views of my videos.
Village News is the amazing videos on YouTube I look on IMDb it got a 9.4/10. I got the cartoon voices the Villager and the witch and I am so good at this.
This is Korey signing off.
And have a great awesome animation videos, good day for you.
 
Today’s topic is your own choice
Today I am going to tell you about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. On the eleventh of March 2011 the plant was hit by an earthquake and followed by a tsunami. The tsunami caused major radiation leaks making it impossible to restart the reactors. The plant was first opened in 1971 with six boiling water reactors and had no recorded trouble until 2011. The building was designed to withstand an earthquake but not a tsunami. The plant was shut down permanently in April 2012.  
Some fun facts; 160,000 people were displaced as a result of the disaster. Areas classified as difficult to return zone still remain today due to high radiation levels. The plant was closed not due to human error, but to natural disaster.
Nick signing off. 
 
Well I got new game called Assassins Creed, it is really nice but not bad, really so easy for me. I like seeing you all today, I have a happy life today because you are all cool people. I even have Radiovoice next Monday, yay, and this weekend I will be going out for fun. I was happy to see Cindy on Tuesday afternoon.  Ruby is such a cute dog she will always come to my room and sleep together. But I must take Ruby to go outside before sleep to pee, so she doesn’t pee on the floor. Oh lord. 
TJ
 
Hi readers, how are you? Today's topic is a choose your own adventure and I have chosen to write about my adventure on a very big cruise ship. I am going with my Mum and her partner, his son and my brother, and my sister. 
The ship will be leaving on the 21st of March next year for seven days and leaving from Brisbane. On this cruise there will be so much to do. On this holiday I can go to all the activities like spotlight karaoke, girl rock climbing, adrenaline peak and salsa dancing classes for young guests, and the best will be going to the circus school, and hopefully I can get involved with the show.
I will be sharing a cabin with my sister and hopefully we have a porthole so we can see outside. My mum and her partner will be next door to me.
When we get settled and unpacked we will try to research the surroundings of the ship, especially the Royal Theater where we will see lots of movies and shows. 
I have heard that the food is incredible and there are lots to choose from. I am so excited in the coming months and once Xmas is over the holiday will be here before I know it.
This is Cruisey Beth signing off until next week.
 
 
Today I’ll be talking about my experience at the many concerts I have recently attended. Firstly I saw Southern Sons again and I was in the front row. Two weeks later I saw AC/DC at the MCG. And I really enjoyed myself because there is a story behind the AC/DC concert. My biological father and I were meant to see them live in 2010 but he had a stroke and I was so sad that I didn’t get a chance but they came out again in 2015 but we missed getting tickets.  When they released tickets for another Australian tour for 2025 we got so excited. I was online and I trying to get tickets for the Wednesday night show but I got kicked out. I got a phone call from my brother saying he got tickets for the Sunday night show and I was so excited for my brother helping me out. My highlight was seeing AC/DC. 
Not even a week later I got a chance to see Jimmy Barnes at Mount Duneed Estate in Geelong, and it was the anniversary of the passing of Micheal Hutchence from INXS. It was such a hot day that I brought myself a top and stubby holder for my beers and I bought 2x beers that cost me $22 dollars and my carer brought a hamper it has sandwiches,Tim tams, dips and dry biscuits and a glass of wine but knowing me, I was drinking beer. We got a chance to see Kate Cebrano, Ian moss and Icehouse and the last act was Jimmy Barnes. We got a change to meet Kate and I had a picture with her and she also signed my poster. I was so grateful that I got a chance to see more Australian acts but it was about to rain when Jimmy Barnes was playing, his wife played the bagpipes. We left when there were three songs left from finishing the show because it was spitting with rain and I was in so much pain with my foot. On that Sunday morning we drove back to Melbourne Carrum Downs. I can’t wait to see more concerts next year.
Ash.
 
 
Let me start by telling you about my made-up story. Once there was a girl called Paris, and she was no ordinary girl. She was royalty, but she didn't know until her 18th birthday. And on her 18th birthday she flew home from Greece, and when she arrived out the front of the palace she was greeted by her parents who gave her a big warm hug. Her parents, who were king and queen, told her about her royalty as they walked through the big golden palace doors, that she was a princess, and she wasn't allowed to marry for love. But she had fallen in love with a handsome prince from Greece, and had married him no matter what. She still became Queen. Written by Charlotte.

Christmas is coming! My support worker picked me up to go to Umbrella Support program I wore my Mickey t-shirt. My support worker even brought me a present. “Do you like receiving gifts in a bag or wrapped?”
Inside the bag there were a Minnie keyring, Hello Kitty stickers, a green slinky, and a box of Favourites chocolates.
“Wow, what a lovely present. Thank you so much for thinking of me. I said.
When My support worker dropped Abbey andI  at Balla Balla, it was almost 9 AM. Cindy came in and said, “Come to the party room, wonderful people!”
There was no name on the seat next to me just a sign that said “Reserved.”
“Cindy, who is sitting next to me?” I asked.
“It’s a surprise. You’ll see. Why don’t you eat some snacks? There are cookies, Smith’s, Doritos, and Shapes.”
Once everyone was seated, Cindy said, “Today is our annual Christmas gathering. We also have a surprise visitor, and that person will be sitting next to Jacinda. I know you’re feeling anticipation, Jacinda.”
Then she said, “The surprise visitor is here. I’m going outside to greet him. You all stay here and have a chat with your friends.”
Sheridan turned to me.
“Jacinda, what are you doing for Christmas?”
“I’m going to open my presents on Christmas Day. I asked my parents for pastel colour pencils. What about you?”
“I’ll have Christmas lunch at home with my parents and Shan. I might take my dog for a walk,” she said.
Soon the visitor walked in…
It was Michael Bublé.
“Michael? Is that really you?” I asked.
“Yes, young lady, it’s me. What’s your name?”
“I’m Jacinda. I love your Christmas songs so much. One of my favourites is Cold December Night.”
“Oh, cool,” he said with a smile.
Everybody took turns introducing themselves.
“I’m glad I get to know you all,” Michael said. “Now it’s my turn. I’m Michael, and I have four kids.”
Suddenly Santa walked in.
“Ho, ho, ho! Merry Christmas!”
He called out names in random order to give out presents. I still felt anticipation because I hadn’t received mine yet.
Then Santa finally called my name.
I opened my present straight away. I got a pastel pink journal book, a Snoopy pen, bear stickers, and an Oreo.
Michael opened his gift too he got socks and a beanie.
Cindy handed out gifts to all her participants. She usually gives a gratitude journal and a craft.
Martina gave her clients a biscuit.
We had some free time, and Michael decided to chat with me. He asked me lots of questions and told me that his daughter likes pastel colours too.
For lunch, we had pizza! The flavours were meat lovers, Aussie, margherita, and barbecue chicken.
After lunch, we watched Michael perform his Christmas songs. Then it was time to pack up. Delia took the leftover snacks home.
“Michael, thank you so much for coming,” I said.
“You’re welcome, Jacinda,” he replied.
We went for a walk, and Claire even got to dance with Michael.
My support worker picked Abbey and me up. She got a chance to greet Michael and had a little chat.
“How was your day with Michael?” She asked.
“It was loud. I’ll tell you more in the car,” I said.
Thank you for reading.
It's Princess Jacinda, signing off.

Can you imagine, just for a moment that your mind was a room?
What would it look like? If you opened the door to walk in, what would you see, how would you feel and how long would you stay?
 
This week our bloggers explore just that…
 
Today’s blog topic is if my mind was a room what would it look like?
 
If my mind was a room it would be Disney themed and very colourful. The walls would be pink with a Frozen 2 painting on one side and a Disney Princess theme on the other side. It would have lots of Disney things in the room including books, teddies, figurines and other memorabilia.
In my wardrobe I would have lots of Disney clothes and all of the Disney princess costumes, I also have all the accessories like hair clips and jewellery and a whole drawer of Mickey Mouse ears. I would also have a dancing studio in my room so I could practice all my new moves. My room will always smell pretty like my Tinkerbell perfume. Everyday there would be a new character who comes into my room to meet me, we will have dinner together and maybe watch a movie, a Disney movie of course. My room would be so much fun and I'd never want to leave, it would be my happy place. Although I may leave to go bowling and handmade and all my other fun activities.
 
This is Claire singing off, see you next week.
 
My special room would be made in a bunker which would be built twenty feet underground on my families property.
I would install an automatic scissor lift to make it easier to get to the top and so it doesn't take up much room. The walls would be made of rough iron and metal objects to keep the noise out. This bunker will be as big as the MCG, and I will have my mini Army jeep. To get my jeep out I will have automatic doors that open upwards on the surface and the jeep would be able to drive to the main house. I will also have a tunnel to get me to my friends who have also installed tunnels so we could catch up.
This magical room would have the latest ventilation that would make it easier and comfortable to be able to live in this bunker for a very long time. The walls would have to be made at least 5ft thick of concrete. I, as you know, have many, many tools and objects that I have collected over the years and this room would be the ideal place to store all my goodies.
This is Nick signing off. 
 
Dear friend, I like to do car racing. I do help for wheeling from car and now my family friend is helping to go car racing.  So anyway, how about tomorrow it’s movie time but will still work of course.
If my room was my mind it would look like sometime clean.  I don’t clean my room much and sometime mess my room so I need to stay clean. My room will be a gamer room and sometime I eat in my room.   But sometimes my room smells bad so I have to clean it. At night I call my friends and they love to see my face when we call on video.  From your friend TJ
 
Today’s blog is about a room and what would be in your room if it were my mind. My room would have heaps of shark and Southern Sons posters all over my walls and the best thing in my room is looking at the posters and making sure my whole rooms walls are covered and make sure that there is no white showing on my walls. If there is any white walls showing I’m not going to be happy as my room is my bedroom and safe place. When I’m not in a good mood or dealing with my headspace my room is my go-to. 
When I get the chance in my room I’ll clean and make my bed and open my window to let some fresh air in. I love listening to the rain so my room will always have rain outside. My room is so peaceful that I can go there whenever I like. The best thing is playing on my PlayStation 5 with my games or watching true crimes or watching southern sons on YouTube. Another thing that would happen in my room all the time is having Jack Jones singing to me and pretending that I’m at a Southern Sons concert in the 90s with John Farnham as well. Take care and see you soon, signing off Ash.
 
Dear readers this week’s topic is if my mind is a room. 
Let me start by telling you about my room. In my mind is purple with glitter and would have a kitchen in my room. I would be able to cook in my room and I would have a built-in stove on my kitchen island to cook on. I would also be able to eat off my bench and I would have a smart screen fridge, coffee machine, remote control curtains and a smart TV. 
 Written by Charlotte 
 
My brain is not for the people who like a lot of colour. It would have wooden floorboards with a funky rug that is Snorlax the Pokémon and the skeleton on the other side of the Snorlax. 
One side of the room is painted black and be full of horror miscellaneous from the movies. 
The wall would be full of Toy Story miscellaneous items from the movies, the wall would be painted sky with clouds like in the movie, with “Haley’s Room” in the Toy Story font. 
The last wall I would decorate would be painted as a mural of the Shrek swamp with the sign saying “beware ogre”
So as you can imagine my room would be dark and gloomy but with only a bit of colour. 
My bed would be a king size bed for myself and I would have another king size bed for my four Maine Coons cat named Coco a pure white cat, Pearlman a ginger cat, Herman a black but with a grey mane, and a ragdoll named Percy. Again a bit of colour. 
I would also have two dogs, one which is a Tibetan Mastiff named Bruce and a French bulldog named George Boy. 
 The horror themed side would have living dead dolls, figurines of the main killers of the movies, I would have their masks on mannequin heads. 
The Toy Story side would have the sky with the clouds and Haley’s room in the Toy Story font. like I mentioned. I would have all of the toys from the movies including the green army men, and I would have loads of Mr Potato heads and slinkys. They are my favourite. 
Finally there would be a tattoo gun, also there will be a few bean bags. Just to lounge around.  Also would have all of my favourite band posters. 
 But there won’t be any mirrors, not a big fan of mirrors. 
The roof would be a light but it would be cotton balls all over and it would mimic thunder and lighting.  My favourite type of weather. 
 
So as you can see my brain is mostly all dark. But I do slip in a little colour. And that’s the way I like it.  
I also love how my friends and my brains are totally different but we are still friends. 
Thank you for entering my brain for a short time 
Haley.
 
 
If my mind was a room what would it be like.
It would be a pink room full of “everyday people” merchandise like hats, tshirts and cups.
The walls are pale pink and the carpet is brown, the windows are clear.
I use an iPad to make my designs. 
My inspirations come from Instagram and then I show my support worker and then she puts it on my online store.
I make items to order. Sometimes when I do markets I have the
stock with me and people can buy them or order online.
If you would like to see my designs please look up everyday-people.printify.me
Thanking you reading my blog
Ben
 
My room will be the big animation set as I am making the character for my animation.
I just downloaded the world and I make sure it looks so cool.
I have a cartoon voice and I love making the sound effects. I am really good to be as the cartoon voice and I was the voice as the villager and the witch.
I love making the bone rig for my animation to make sure it’s so cool.
I got the camera for the animation and, I make the scene to make sure is nice and cool too. 
I like making the shape key for the animation to make sure is nice and cool as the face.
I love doing the voiceover for the animation to make sure is nice and clear.
I use the website yourDNA to make sure my room is big and the wall is white, they have lots of computers. 
In my mind, my room is my bedroom where I make my animation at home. I clean my room with the vacuum, and make sure it’s nice and clean.
I was making the stop motion in my bedroom, and it is good fun.
Korey.
 
 
This week’s topic is “if our mind was a room.” It’s my first time doing this topic, and I found it a bit tricky, even though I always look forward to blogging every Thursday morning. I’m going to push myself and give it a go.
If my mind was a room, the colour would be pastel yellow with rainbows, fairies, unicorns, princesses, and castle wallpaper. My bed has Minnie Mouse bedsheets and a matching doona cover. My room is full of plush toys, such as teddy bears, Cheep-Cheep fish (big and small), Stitch, Minnie Mouse, Hangyodon, and My Melody. There is also a glow in the dark blanket.
There’s a radio player with headphones, and it can connect to Bluetooth like a speaker. I would play ambient music or Disney songs. There’s also a smart TV with Netflix, Disney, Stan, and other streaming services, and of course, YouTube. I have a beanbag too it’s red with white polka dots. Do you have a beanbag in your room?
There’s a shelf for colouring books, with Fabell Castell forty eight pack colour pencils and a twelve pack of pastel colours because pastel colours are calming. I also have a star nightlight, so you can see beautiful stars on the ceiling at night.
Outside the room is a garden like the resort I stayed at in Bali, so the door must stay closed to keep insects out. The room will be warm and cozy when it’s cold, and I’ll have an air conditioner when it’s scorching hot because I don’t like the heat.
 
If this room existed in real life, I’d be very happy. I could watch movies, sit on the beanbag with a bag of potato chips, and wear my cozy outfit. I’d also do colouring with my regular and pastel pencils.
This room is perfect for me when I’m having a bad day. I can go inside, choose any activity I want, and relax without being disturbed.
Do you like my imaginary room? If you do, which part do you like the most the plush toys, nightlight, garden, or beanbag?
Thank you for reading my weekly blog. This is Princess Jacinda signing off. See you next week, friends!
 
If your mind was a room, what would it look like?
 I find in life that I put an invisible mask on, or at the very least there is a filter. And being the wonderful neurodiverse human that I am, I have learnt coping strategies to help blend into the rest of society when it's necessary because not everyone understands people might be different. I find myself adapting and changing for the different situations in life because I don't want to be too vulnerable or be judged as I can be a little bit like Weird Barbie from the Barbie movie. So basically I'm just saying that my mind is full on and I shield the world from it. You're welcome. 
 
My mind as a room would be extremely full on, looks like a unicorn vomited rainbows on the walls, also the ceiling and the floor. It's an extremely colourful and glittery room with matching furniture and a random patch work armchair in between the windows. There's music playing but you can never be too sure what the song actually is, it also never plays to the end, but it's super catchy and you'll be humming it for a week. Anxiety will jump out from a corner to remind you of something you said or did wrong six years ago so maybe you might want to look out for him. There are very colourful bean bags amongst the piles of books about random topics that may or may not be useful information. Read at your own risk though because once you go down that path you might not resurface to reality. I have many different tabs open on the laptop that's sitting on the rainbow glittery table in the middle of the room, another thing that you read at your own risk because its a time waster and you might lose a few days. 
 
Don't open any of the cupboards, you'll upset anxiety or the creatures living inside will be startled, not sure what creatures are in there at the minute as I don't have a list I just let anyone in that needs a home. I’m pretty sure somewhere in the room there's a couple of craft activities that need finishing, feel free to give them a go or start a new one, that's what I do. There is a black box labeled “do not open” and as the title suggests we don't open it, that's where the intrusive thoughts live so it’s best not to let them out, might get me into some trouble or they might be very funny.  I’m not sure which so we won't find out today. 
 
I do feel like I could go on forever about my mind as a room, however this is a blog not a novel so I will finish up here. 
Thank you for reading and have a beautiful day. 
 
Your friend,
Shan.

Let's for a moment think about what our world would be like if we could talk to our pets! What would we chat with them about? Would they talk back? Would it be fun?... Today our bloggers imagine this possibility...

In today’s topic we are talking about animals. My two favourite animals are a great white shark and a werewolf. Firstly, I would love to see if sharks can try to talk underwater but I think that’s impossible. 
I would like to be a werewolf because I like to protect my pack and look out for my pack as well and have a secret code that no one can try to crack. I can tell when a shark is angry because their mouth opens wide and their teeth will be showing. As a wolf, if I was really really angry I would be growling at the other wolf packs to tell them to go away. I’ve always wanted to be a shark to swim in the ocean and do nothing because that’s the whole point of being a shark isn’t it? And being a wolf means I can roam around through the night. Keep on reading my awesome blogs signing off until  next week Ash.


Today we’re blogging about if our pets could talk.
I like fish, so in my imagination, my fish’s name is Bubbles. She’s baby aqua with baby pink spots. Bubbles is a friendly fish who always says, “Good morning!” to whoever wakes up in the morning. When she’s super excited, she talks a lot — that’s how she expresses herself! I’m the same — when I’m happy or excited, I can be a little chatterbox too.


Bubbles lives in an aquarium decorated with a castle, rocks, and green plants like the ones in the Super Mario underwater levels. I showed her all my Cheep-Cheep collectible plush toys and said, “Look, Bubbles! I have a fish soft toy too — his name is Cheep-Cheep. He’s mean in the game, but he’s a friendly soft toy.”
Bubbles replied, “He’s such a cute toy, Jacinda! You’re very lucky to have him.”
“I know! He’s rare — not many people I know have this toy,” I said.


Then I showed her Jeff, the Umbrella teddy bear. “This is Jeff,” I said. “He belongs to my support group — everyone gets a turn to look after him if they want.”
Bubbles said, “He’s very cute too! I love his color.”
“Me too,” I said. “Yellow is such a positive color.”
There’s another pet in my imagination too — a hamster named Cheeky. He’s light brown, friendly, and just a little bit cheeky (that’s how he got his name!). He loves eating hamster mix and cucumber. Cheeky is a spoiled hamster with a cozy cage full of fun decorations — a hamster wheel, a food bowl, and a lime green slide leading to his light blue castle. Sometimes he peeks through the castle window.
He also likes to surprise me by saying, “Boo!” when I’m quiet or daydreaming — that’s Cheeky being cheeky!
I showed him my Cheep-Cheep plush toy and Jeff the Umbrella bear too.
“Awesome toy, Jacinda!” Cheeky said. “I love the colors — such happy colors!”
“I know!” I replied with a smile.
I’m so grateful to have two new imaginary pet friends — Bubbles the fish and Cheeky the hamster — even though Cheeky can be a bit naughty sometimes! I told my Umbrella Support group about them, and they were happy for me.
If animals could talk, what would their personalities be like?
Would they be friendly, naughty, loud, or quiet?
Thanks for reading about my imaginary animal friends, Bubbles and Cheeky.
This is Jacinda, signing off — until next Thursday! 




I had a dog called Ollie he was my best four-legged friend and we had him for fifteen years. We were inseparable, I was kind to him and he was lovable to me. If Ollie could talk I am sure he would have loved every moment we shared together. We would love to go to the beach but once Ollie ran off and went under a fence, but unfortunately it was an electric fence and we heard a yelp, it hurt a little but he never did it again.
If Ollie could somehow talk to me I am sure he would have said that he loved me and we had so much fun together over the fifteen years we had him. He would jump in bed with me when he was younger and snuggle up to me, which in a dogs language and thoughts means he was so happy to be with me and have cuddles in bed. I sometimes would treat him as a human and share all my thoughts with him.
Ollie would show me his affection by jumping all over me and lick me when he is happy, this shows me that he loved his life with me, and his tail would never stop wagging.
In dog’s language he would say he had the best time of his life and loved all his toys and that his treats and food were delicious.
This is Nick signing off.




Banshee chapter one.
Banshee is a very clingy cat, I think his voice would be very quiet. 
I think he would only talk to me, because he’s a one-man-person. 
He wouldn’t talk too much, he just likes to hang out in the backyard in the sun with me, but in the winter time, he would complain a bit more because of the weather being colder and wetter. He’s a cat that loves the sun and being warm.  
If I’m not paying him any attention, he would kindly demand me to pay attention to him. He’s a little bit cheeky and tries to trick me to go out.
Recently he got a cardboard haunted house, he tries to invite me in there, but sadly I can’t go in there. He’s very polite though and still invites me.


Maggie chapter two.
Maggie thinks she’s a princess and she would speak very posh and elegant, and sometimes, a bit rude. 
Once she’s up, everyone would hear her stomping to wake everyone up so she can get her first feed of the day. 
She usually spies on me like Hannibal Lector in the dark shadows until she see’s me move around.  She waltzes into my room and demands her second breakfast for the day.
So our conversations would mainly be about food, how pampered she is. 
Sometimes we do make fun of her, and she does look a bit sad, so she would probably tell us to shut up.
She does this thing where she lies on her back and looks at every single one of us humans and we all say “she’s beautiful” then she puts a smile on her face. 
But yeah, mainly our talks would be about food or her telling me to stop annoying her because I love annoying Maggie.
Banshee and Maggie have conversation with us, it would be great. 
I would love if cats could talk, but I guess you have to be careful what you wish for, once they start talking they may not stop. 

Hayley





My puppies name is Maverick.
If he could talk he will ask about going for a walk.
I think he would also like the same music as me and will ask to come to the Metallica concert.
I think my dog will be funny and say jokes.
It will be so much fun talking to my puppy, he can tell me about the videos I make and what he liked about them. 
He tells me about making my animation in a blender, and he would think it was awesome and it was good fun to make.
He tells me about his favourite food, he tells me about dog food but I like human food.
How cool I have a talking dog like the movie, but not for reals.
This is Korey signing off and wishing you a good day.






Hi readers, how are you? Todays topic is if animals could talk what would your pet say to you and I have chosen to write about all animals. If they can talk they would say “I love you, leave me alone, play with me, or I want food, come with me, I’m hungry, can we go for a walk, feed me now, pat me, or come here, feed me, stop turning on the lights, this tank is too small, can I have a bigger tank, could you get me a new friend, I wish you could take me with you wherever you go. Why are you eating fish in front of me, don’t touch my belly, why are you not feeding me, stop petting me, I can pee where I want to, you can’t tell me no, don’t push me, you are not the boss of me, haha pick up my poo and clean up my wee. How dare you push me off. How rude of you to kick me outside and not let me back in”.  
Thank you for reading my blog readers, this is bubbly Beth signing off, until next week.





Hello everyone, I play with my dog and her toys. She is so cute and I love my dog so much.  Every time she sits near the outside front door she need a to go to toilet.  Every time she follows me around the house and sleeps on my bed so I don’t mind if she plays with me tonight. Every time Ruby smells my blood-sugar she will always move her head under my arm and say I need to check my blood sugars. Now that is what we call a smart dog. TJ


Dear readers, this week’s topic is if I could talk to our pets and animals this is what it would look like. 
Let me start by telling you if I could talk to our family dog who is a little French bulldog who’s name is Gucci. Gucci is very sweet until you cheat on her by playing with another dog. If Gucci comes home and sniffs you and smells another dog, I think she would say “How dare you for playing with another dog!”  And she would say “I hate you for cheating of me” and give me an evil look.
Written by Charlotte 


Today’s topic is about animals.

My friend’s dog is named Toffee. I think Toffee would ask me for some food and a walk. I would tell Toffee about my day and he would tell me about his.

Ben 2

We (my family) have two beautiful animals who live the most amazing lives being spoilt to the high hills, they live the life of royalty and are 100% valued members of our family as all pets/animals should be. 

 We have a Scaley Breasted Lorikeet named Katut, she seems like she would have a lot to say and would have many opinions on everything. Katut is extremely fussy with food so I think she would tell us first exactly what she wants on the menu and then I feel like she would tell us to turn the heater on all the time, as Scaley Breasted Lorikeets are native to Queensland and she gets to live with us in Victoria. (She lives inside the house always). She would also tell us how she feels about us getting Chopper dog. I would like to think that she would have only positive feed back for us but I have a feeling that she would also have some grievances. They would probably be food related due to how fussy she is, I suppose she just knows what she likes and she doesn't want a bar of anything else. 
Katut would be a lot of fun if she could talk to us though. I reckon she would be really funny even if she was telling us we're doing everything wrong by her standards and we would have long chats about her feelings. She would also have conversations with herself about us and probably loudly too. It would be really great though to know what she's thinking and what she wants. We can also sing together which would be so fun!

Now onto Chopper our Beautiful American Staffy Cross who would talk our ears off I reckon. The minute he realised we could understand him, I think he has a lot of feelings that he would like to talk to us about everything and we would validate his feelings. Examples of what Chopper would talk to us about would be; how he feels about cats (not a fan), possums, bugs, zoomies, us (so much love), grass, his favourite toys, walks and so much more. We would have so much to talk about and I'm sure it would all be talked about with a lot of enthusiasm because everything he does is done with heaps of energy.  I would really look forward to his thoughts on his steak night (he gets a steak cooked for him). I would love to see what Chopper and Katut have to say to each other. That would be a great conversation to see and be a part of. 

I truly wish this would happen because it would be amazing. 
Thank you for joining us for another wonderful blog.  

Your friend, 
Shan. 

Who loves the movies? We certainly do today and we are movie directors, we are casting, we are writing, and we are shooting a movie that WE get to create.  Our bloggers are so creative and this weeks blog is no exception.  Enjoy!
Today we are movie directors for the day. My story is going to be about the untold story of Australian music from the 1960s to the early 1990s and the stars will be Michael Hutchence, John Farnham, Jon Stevens and Irwin Thomas aka Jack Jones.  It tells the story of how they got into the music industry and what inspired them to become Australian musicians, and what was the highlight of their shows over the years.  My movie explains their highs and lows and the outcome of such a rewarding job it is to be a musician in Australia.  My movie would also have Glen Wheatley in it talking through set up the Wheatley records, and  asking him what became your biggest highlight of setting up your own record company. My movie would be interview style and I would get the inside info of any fights or arguments with the musicians and highlights of being at the Aria Awards for recognising Australian music.  Keep on rocking, see you all next week.  Bye for now.Ash.


Today’s blog topic is if I was a director for the day, what movie would I be making.

If I was making a movie it would be about navy seals. The main plot of the movie is about a group of navy seals who are in a plane crash and land in an unknown location, they need to navigate their way back.
Some men will be trying to build a car, whilst others will focus on survival. The men are making shelters, hunting for food, and on the night they manage to kill a bear and that lasts them for a while. They manage to find different things to eat like apples,
grains, bananas, and blueberries.  The men are taking bits of the destroyed plane to make the car which is proving to be very
difficult.  Some parts of the plane are too burned down to recover. During this they also have to fight off terrorists, they attempt to blow up all their food sources, but they are no match for the navy seals and are ultimately defeated by them. The navy seals steal their cars and are able to find their way back to their base camp.

This is Nick signing off, see you next week!

You’re the director of your own movie. 
What genre would it be, who is in it. Will you be in it?
 
Well, this seems like a topic to get the imagination going!
I feel like there are so many possibilities here, a two-hour documentary on the secret lives of snails or a horror animation where Pluto the planet is sick of being left out so it takes over the solar system and starts a gruesome crusade.


See what I mean about getting the imagination flowing?  It’s crazy!
 
So today I reckon we’ll go with the two-hour documentary on the secret lives of snails, but I want people to be interested and this means I need it to be funny as well as informative, so it will have a couple of people talking about the snails and keeping everyone on their toes. Like a David Attenborough type deal but funny (I love David Attenborough though). I’m thinking Snoop Dogg and Robert Irwin. We will just assume at this point that they work together well and there’s good chemistry there.
 
I’m not going to be in the movie; I will have enough to do directing it and I wouldn’t enjoy it as much if I was doing everything. I would have the time of my life on this movie though. I think snails are so awesome and adorable! There’s so much about them that’s interesting and like with humans there is more than meets the eye. Sitting and watching snails just be snails is one of my favourite past times I reckon they are fascinating.
 
I hope you enjoyed my blog, I think I SNAILED IT (my play on nailed it but with snail ha ha) have a wonderful day dear reader.
 
Your friend,
 
Shan.


I would pick the genre animation/fairytale because I love animated movies and fairytales. My movie is called “Two Kind Princesses.”

My main character is Princess Bella, who is 20 years old. She prefers to wear jumpers and trousers but likes dresses when it’s summer or for special occasions. Her favourite winter outfit is a Bluey jumper with navy trackpants, but when it’s hot or for special occasions, she wears a lilac dress with floral patterns.

She lives in a castle with her mum and dad and has a sister named Sofia, who is 18. Sofia enjoys girly clothes more than tracksuits, so she loves spring and summer because she can wear dresses and skirts. Even though their clothing choices are different, they respect each other’s opinions.

Princess Bella loves to collect stickers and colouring books, and she enjoys colouring in her spare time. She likes to use textas and colour pencils, and she listens to music while colouring because it helps her relax. Her favourite music genre is Disney. Once she finishes colouring, she loves to use stickers in her books.

Princess Sofia prefers diamond paintings, especially the big ones, because they keep her busy. Sometimes she colours with Bella, but diamond painting is her favourite.

No fairytale is complete without a villain! The villain in this movie is a witch named Mimi. Mimi likes to annoy the princesses—she ruins Sofia’s diamond painting by dropping all the dotz on the floor, making Sofia pick them up again. She also tears Bella’s stickers, which makes them both sad.

The princesses are assertive with Mimi and say, “Stop that! Please, how would you feel if someone was mean to you?” Mimi reflects and says, “Oh, I am sorry for being mean. I guess kindness is important instead of being mean!” The princesses forgive her, and she becomes their friend.

Mimi then invites the princesses to her cottage. They enjoy ice cream together—Mimi chooses neapolitan, Sofia chooses mint, and Bella chooses oreo. Afterward, they go outside for a walk on a sunny day and play with bubbles, just like I do every Monday at Umbrella Support.

This movie is suitable for all ages and is very light-hearted. It’s perfect to watch if you’re having a bad day.

What movie genre would you pick if you had to create your own movie?

Thank you for reading! Until next week, this is Jacinda signing off.

Quiet on set please! The movie I’m directing is a suspense horror about a couple Sarah and Duncan, who are fresh out of college and moving into a small town house to start a family as Sarah is pregnant. 


The population in the town is one thousand people. 
Sarah was a bit sceptical about the move but her boyfriend convinced her it’ll be okay, 
They started to unpack the house to make it their home. Their dog Tucker wouldn’t leave Sarah’s side. 
when it was time for dinner Duncan went to get pizza, and as he was driving he notices a grim looking light flickering.  He said to himself "that’s unusual" but shrugged it off. On his way home, the grim looking light was surrounded by people in black cloaks.
He got home, Tucker welcomed him home at the door.
Sarah was putting the plates on the bench for the pizza. 
Duncan and Sarah are in the loungeroom eating their pizza while Tucker is in bed but growling, Duncan said, “Tucker what’s up” 
Tucker got up and ran to the door and just stared at it.
Sarah and Duncan just shrugged it off because it was a new area and a new house, he might just be unsettled. 
It was late and both of them went to bed. 


The next morning Sarah woke up, hands-prints on her belly, like someone was hugging the belly all night long.  The door-bell rang, Tucker barked and ran up to the door, Duncan opened the door and Tucker ran off to hide, Duncan apologies to the person. The person introduced herself as Wilma, she was an elderly lady, with white thin hair.   She brought soup for the couple as a gift. Sarah popped around to see who it was, Wilma's eyes widened and looked straight to her belly, “oh my dear you’re expecting, how far long are you?”
Sarah replied “yes, I’m 7 months.” 
Dusk falls and Sarah was in the nursery setting up the crib with Duncan, she had a feeling someone was watching her, she looked out the window, Wilma was just staring straight at Sarah with a big grin.
Duncan ran out to tell Wilma off, but she disappeared,  she was nowhere to be seen. But Sarah was certain Wilma was there. 


The next day Sarah woke up with hand prints on her belly, again.
She was getting frightened about it, so she went to the police station and told them the events that were occurring. They asked what house were they living in and Sarah replied with “66 highland pl” 
The policeman looked shocked and said “ I thought that house got demolished back in 200l?" Sarah asked “why what happened there, are my family and I going to have trouble?” 
The policeman pulled up a seat for Sarah and started to tell her a story.
“Back in the1960s a lady named Wilma Anderson lived there, her husband was the mayor of the town, and she was pregnant but sadly lost the baby.  Her husband left her and she then had nobody.  Nobody came to visit her, some say she just rotted away in her house, where as others say the mayor moved her on to a different town” 
Sarah was gobsmacked at what she was hearing.  She did more research and she found out that other people in the town who were pregnant would see Wilma.  They would all move away.
Sarah went home and told Duncan, what she discovered. 
Duncan was furious that the real estate people didn’t tell them. 
The next morning, Sarah felt pain in her belly, they rushed to the hospital as she was in fact in labour, but she said  “Im only 7 months and 2 weeks I can’t be”.
She was laid up in the hospital bed all connected to the machines. She was dozing in and out of sleep and it was raining outside. Sarah was tossing and turning, she turned to face the window and she saw Wilma at the side of the bed.  Sarah screamed and Duncan woke up in such a panic he fell off his chair. Sarah said “she’s here, what does she want from us?” 
Duncan replied “Where I don’t see her, are you sure” 
Duncan gave Sarah a hug to calm her down, and gave her a forehead kiss. 
The time was 3.33am,  Sarah woke up in agony and pain, they rushed in the doctors and nurses and the machines were beeping, Duncan didn’t know what to do. 


At 6.00am, Sarah delivered a baby girl, both were over the moon that nothing bad had happened.  Duncan went home to have a shower and get a few things for Sarah and Gabrielle, and to feed Tucker.


Sarah and Gabby were sleeping, a gusty breeze came brushing through the room, Gabby woke up and started to cry as Wilma appeared and took Gabby. Sarah suddenly woke up and realised her new born was missing. No one knew where she went. 
The hospital staff didn’t know and said "Miss Sarah you weren’t here to give birth, but here for mental health concerns", Sarah was adamant that she just gave birth. 
Duncan arrived back to see Sarah and said “what’s going on, why is my girlfriend saying she was pregnant? 
Nurses said “we have no idea, I think she is becoming delusional and all of the stress has caused this."


A few weeks later Duncan, Sarah and Tucker were driving back to their hometown and as they were passing the sign saying "Thank you for visiting, Cherry Hills, come back soon”
Sarah saw Wilma, the white-haired old lady holding a baby, she screamed and told Duncan to stop.
They both got out of the car and again Duncan saw nothing.  Tucker barked. 
Duncan calmed Sarah down and got her into the car and drove. 
Directed and written by Haley.
 
I love scary movies because this makes my nightmares in my dream come true.  I saw Five Nights at Freddys, really nice movie and they do dream about his little brother.  His little brother was missing, he was alone with his younger sister and all five or six kids got kidnapped by William the yellow rabbit.   The kid turned into a robot and now they were getting killed by people and almost killed Mike.  Actually, his sister drew something about the yellow rabbit they all saw and more pictures that she drew they kill the yellow rabbit but he said I will always come back. He was the one killer. His younger brother is now coming out in Five Nights at Freddys 2, in December.


TJ


I tell the actors we are making the movie "Don't Fall In” as I am the director.
I am making the sound from the clapper and voices for the actors and the sound is nice and perfect.
I was listening to the subscriptions and its cool, and better with the sound.
My work was setting up camera, lights and clapper to make the scenes.
It's the movie about the toilet which was stuck inside the world of the toilet.  That is funny and hilarious.
We finished off the scene and we are making the editing of the final scene.
This is going to be so funny and hilarious and people will love this on the big screen.
I cant wait to see my animations on the big screen, I hope people will like my animation.
This is Korey signing off.
And have a good fun day and enjoy my animation.




My movie is about lots of my friends. In my movie my friends are Alanna, Brie and Charlotte. Me and Alanna went shopping one day and organised a surprise party for Charlotte for her birthday and we had lots of fun. We had lemonade to drink and Fanta. Alanna made a chocolate smash cake filled with smarties, chocolate bits, caramel and ice cream. It was amazing.
It was a great party and
Charlotte said "Thank you it was the best party ever".

Ben 2


Dear readers, this week's topic is "we are the director of our very own movie".

Let me start by telling you about a movie I would direct, it would be rated MA15+ and a Christmas horror movie called ‘Xmas Gone Wrong’. The movie starts with a family and one of my support workers, Krystle who is the mum of my family and my friend TJ is the brother, and I am one of the sisters. One of my friends goes missing from our house on Christmas night into a very dark scary forest. Another friend also goes missing but we then find them dead and my family is the only ones to survive. There are a lot of jump scares in the middle of the movie and scary music. My family and I enjoyed Christmas all together in our Christmas wonderland country town movie.

Written and directed by Charlotte




Dear readers, how are you? Today's topic is if you were a director for a movie or a film what would it look like.  I have chosen to write about a karaoke competition. 
It is about two young girls named Beth and Charlotte who have just entered a competition and have found out that they have won and in the movie we follow their time competing against the best karaoke singers in the world.
The setting is in a pub and they were wearing sparkly dresses and ballroom shoes. Their hair was tied back in a pony and had ribbons in, they had makeup on which was done neatly and clean. They both had their own mics which had diamonds they went and competed around the world at different competitions. The girls changed into different outfits and shoes after their performances and they have a break in between.  They are travelling on their own bus and they practise in their free time. They do different songs and learn and perform. For the last performance parents and support workers come and watch them.  At the end of the movie the girls perform in front of all of Australia.

Thank you for reading my blog, this is Beth signing off until next week      ​

Today is choosing your own adventure so I’ll be blogging from home. On Monday afternoon. I was in the lounge room with my mum and my dad just talking and then I was walking and I slipped over. I heard a crack and I screamed. Mum and dad asked what happened and I said I think I’ve done something to my foot so my mum rang triple 0. I took my socks off. My ankle was so sore. It was my right ankle as well and I was laying on the floor in shock. My dog was looking after me. She was barking at all the other animals. I was told by my mum that I was going to wait for 3 and a 1/2 hours to 4 hours for an ambulance and I could not move could not sit up at 4 o’clock my two brothers and my dad had to get me off the floor. My older brother took me to the hospital in my car and drove me to the nearest hospital. I told them what happened not even five minutes being there. I was then taken to another room and they said who brought you here and I said my brother so my brother told him to come back and sit with me for a bit. I rang my mum to tell her what was going on and she said that’s not good and they did an x-ray. They couldn’t see anything broken.
 
They put a half cast on my leg and then they did another x-ray and yes it was broken. I rang my mum to tell her that I was ready to come home. I only had 3 1/2 hours sleep my mum only had one hour of sleep and at 7:55 on Tuesday morning I got a phone call from the orthopaedic people saying that I needed to come back.
 
Originally, they thought I needed surgery, but I didn’t. The orthopaedic surgeon fit me with a moon boot. Thank you for reading my blog and by the way I broken my fibula and my other side of my ankle so that’s why I mean so much pain thank you for reading my blog. Stay strong. Don’t do what I did. See you guys soon. Ash
 
Today we are choosing our own adventure blogs, sometimes choosing a ‘choose your own adventure’ blog comes at just the right time and other times it’s the bain of my existence. Thinking of a topic can be the hardest thing to do. Especially when it feels like you’ve been put on the spot, we do have the most supportive group to bounce ideas off, and that makes all the difference. I think coffee and snacks help too.
Lately I have been thinking about different topics that we can use for our blogs, because I want to be able to contribute to the group and be helpful to my blogging friends with their blogs. Doing a little solo brainstorm on topics for future blogs does help me with the writing process. Sometimes it’s also just to break up my day from other non-blogging activities on other days. There’s a lot that goes into our blog writing, but the topic is important and without it there would be no blogs I suppose. Which would be sad for you, our readers.
Don’t worry though we aren’t going anywhere and there will always be another topic for us to adventure into, it’s still exciting to write blogs for you all. While we may be doing the same thing our writings are always going to be different whether it’s a choose your own adventure or one of the topics we do together. Each of us are very talented and have our own minds.
To sum it all up writing is a kind of magic and gets us all thinking .
Love to all, your friend, 
Shan
 
 
Last night, I caught up with an old neighbourhood friend, she works as a midwife, so she has a busy schedule, so it’s so special when we catch up. I think the last time we caught up was in February for Amy Shark,  and we went to a high tea in Olinda and saw an alpaca.
Anyways getting back to last night, she picked me up around 6.30 at night, we went to McDonald’s for tea then headed into the city. We talked and laughed about our childhood.  Our cats, pretty much anything, just reminiscing about our childhoods.
We got into the city, and parked the car, and walked to the Aquarium, yes that right, we went to the Aquarium after dark. It was so different as all of the lights were out. 
We got to our seats, sat down and we were both mesmerised by the group of fish swimming in the tank, there was also a sting ray or a mantra ray, swordfish and a turtle.
 
The stage was placed in the middle of the room and battery operated candles, “safety first”. The performers came out dressed up for Halloween.  They introduced themselves then they started to play the music. The first tune they played was from Friday the 13th 1,2,3, followed by the Nightmare on Elm Street theme. Then The Conjuring, Final Destination, Pennywise,  The Lost Boys and a few more like The Shining and The Exorcist. It was just so perfectly creepy, just being candle lights it gave me goosebumps.  
 
Before they started playing the instruments, people only saw the sting ray. Floating, but as soon as the music started, it swam side ways and you saw underneath and saw its smiling face and it was hilarious, like it wanted to scare us but instead it made most people laugh. 
 
Then the third song in, a fish just stayed in the one spot until the very last song. Cheeky bugger, got a free show. It was my first time doing something like this but it was my friends third or fourth time going to a candle light performance.
I think I may take my mum and dad to a Christmas one, because I think they would love it. 
They have heaps of different themes to go see, for example, Fleetwood Mac and punk music. 
 
Thank you for taking your time to read my own “choose your own adventure blog”, and I hope I’ve given inspiration on going to a candle light show one time or something new. Haley
 
Dear readers , this week’s topic is a choose your own adventure. 
 Let me start by telling you about my new job, I work at an RSL. I work with all the chefs in the kitchen down at the RSL, I work every Monday for three hours. I love my job because I get to work with chefs. One day I hope to become a chef and own my own restaurant. Ever since I was little I always wanted to be a chef because I have a love and passion for food and I’m also really good at cooking different types of food (except steak). I cook dinner for my family most nights which I enjoy. 
 Written by Charlotte.
 
 
Today’s blog topic is choose your own adventure and I’m going to talk about my recent holiday 
 
Last week I went on a Disney cruise for three nights and I loved it! I went with my mum, dad and cousins, I shared the room with my parents and I slept on the couch. The first day I did some dancing all night and had lots of fun, I had a yummy dinner and dessert. I loved when they did the fireworks at night time. Every night I went to the theatre to watch the show, I watched Frozen and two other shows, mum ate popcorn while she watched but I didn't. The second night was pirate night, which was so much fun, everyone dressed up as pirates and got into character. For breakfast we would go to the buffet which was so yummy, they had the best food on the cruise. I loved walking around the ship and meeting all the Disney characters, I met Cinderella, Belle, Rapunzel, Minnie and Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, daffy duck, Pluto, Elsa, Ariel, Merida, Moana and many more. I did some of the activities on the cruise like karaoke and trivia, it was fun to do with my family. I enjoyed going into the spa as it was nice and warm, the pool was too cold for me!
There was different themed restaurants I went to for dinner which was really cool, I enjoyed going to Tiana's place which is from the Princess and the Frog. I had the best holiday and can't wait to go on another cruise one day. This is Claire signing off.
 
 
Choose my own adventure. On Friday is Halloween it is my friend's birthday on Friday
One of my friends is having a birthday tomorrow and her name is Bri and we had a party at a café called Umbrella café on Wednesday with a few of my friends.
I had fish and chips for lunch and a can of solo as well and my friend Bri had a birthday cake and had dinosaurs on it. Rechelle who is my support worker was there as well and my friend Michael.
I went to Kmart to buy a Stitch (which is a toy) it is blue.
Im going to take Stitch with me to VALID Conference as it is a prize for a competition.  Ben 
 
l am making my animation in blender it was good fun.
I made a walk and run cycle for my characters animation and it was good.
I made my Minecraft Villager, I made a body, I made a bone rig to make the body move and the walk cycle.
I love doing the voiceover, I got the cartoon voice, I voice the Villager and the witch, and I am really good to be the voiceover.
I just download the world in the Minecraft world.
I made the new character from Villager News, to make it look awesome.
The people love my video on YouTube, they thought in was amazing.
I am great at stop motion.
I just upload the video on YouTube.
This is Korey signing off. And have a good awesome day.
 
This was my first time going to Bali. Our driver picked us up from the airport, and we stayed at Natura Resort in Ubud. When we got into our room, it was cool and cozy. Outside the room was a garden, so it was best not to leave the door open too long, or insects could come in.
 
On the first morning in Bali, we went to Ubud Palace. Mum and I had a spa at the resort, and while I was relaxing, I could hear someone playing Christmas carols outside. I felt proud of myself for trying new things, and I also got to chill in the pool on my last day in Ubud.
Next, we stayed at Ayodya Resort in Nusa Dua. It had a beautiful koi fish pond that made my heart warm, and colorful fish in an aquarium. The buffet breakfast was amazing—I ate more than usual and even had ice cream after finishing my meal.
I also visited Bali Zoo and Marine Park with my parents. I bought a turtle shirt for myself and another Bali souvenir t-shirt.
After Bali, we stayed at Fairfield Hotel in Surabaya for one night and had dinner with my brother, grandma, aunty, and some cousins.
The next day, we woke up early and went to Central Java. My aunt drove us to the train station, and when we arrived, our driver took us to Manohara Hotel in Jogja. I shared a room with my grandma and brother.
We visited different temples, like Borobudur and Prambanan, on separate days. I had been to these temples as a child, but this time I stayed with Dad and chilled instead of climbing.
We also went to Semarang and reunited with my grandpa's niece. I had a treat in the car—Chitato potato chips and Indomilk, which is like an Up & Go drink.
We spent a week in Central Java before heading back to Surabaya by train. While there, we celebrated my grandma's 80th birthday with lunch alongside her siblings. I sat at the same table with my cousins and my great aunty's son and his wife. The waiter surprised my grandma with a cake and birthday songs.
Although Surabaya didn’t have much sightseeing, I went to Malang with some cousins. We had lunch, dessert, and afternoon tea before heading back to Surabaya.
On our last day, my grandma had another birthday lunch. We used the VIP room, which had karaoke. There were both modern and oldies songs to choose from—what’s your favourite song to sing at karaoke?
It was a happy but tiring trip. I slept in once I got back to my own bed.
Thanks for reading! This is Jacinda signing off.
 
Dear readers, today’s topic is a choose your own adventure. I have chosen to write about my mum going on a cruise. Mum spent most of the days packing and didn't know what to pack because she has never been on one before so this is her first time. Once she was all packed she went to bed. She left home at 5:00am on Tuesday and then they got dressed and then headed to the airport. Once boarded the plane and then flew to Brisbane airport and then when they landed they drove or they got a cab to the Brisbane docks and then waited to board the cruise and didn't leave until three in the afternoon and then when it hit three in the afternoon they set sail. She went on the cruise with her partner and to be honest with you the first two days were so hard knowing that she is not going to be home. I found Tuesday morning very hard that I got very emotional and I tried to keep it together and not let it get to me. I was around very supportive people and support workers who helped me. Mum and her partner come home on Saturday and I am so excited to see them. I can't wait. She has been sending me photos and calling just checking on us.
Thank you for reading my blog. This is Princess Beth signing off until next week. 

We have a double up blog today readers!
We are our reverse age this week, and we’re going to use our secret-weapon, our imagination. We’re using our imagination to paint a story for you our readers about what Halloween would look like when we were, or will become, our reverse age. 
Some of us are now babies, some of us are in our 20’s whilst our youngest bloggers are now 82 and 91!! 


Today’s topic is about reversing our age for Halloween. 82-year-old Ash would be sitting in a haunted house with ghosts and killers and all the scary stuff that Halloween can expect. 
I would have a massive old mansion with the original furniture, original everything including the walls. I will have running water, electricity and gas. I will also have phone reception. I would go to my Mayday Hills and check up on my patients making sure they’re doing okay and that they’re not trying to strangle or hurt each other. 
I’ll come back to my house and sit in my rocking chair with a cup of tea and read my books about how to look after this well preserved haunted house making sure there’s no little rat bags running up and down my hallway and if they do so I will take him to Mayday Hills for punishment. For Halloween I’ll just be wearing a mask scaring little kids away because I don’t want little kids in my house. 
Ash


The future has come and I’ve aged well, I’m still the same height or maybe a little bit shorter than usual. I live in a cabin in the woods, with my two cats, one dog, I finally got my American pit bull called Boy George and my Maine coon named Pearlman, and a white rag doll called Coco. Which is short  for something I can’t mention here. 
I’ve made peace with my inner child and at peace with life, I love just sitting on my balcony listening to the birds and the river flowing pass, Boy George sitting next to me on his bed, Pearlman on a rock near the river trying to catch fish, Coco is too fancy to be outside so she’s in the window watching out. 
I don’t have much to do with civilization but sometimes I go visit my parents in their home, they didn’t want to go into a nursing home, so they renovated the house to suit their needs which is great.  One of the products the future has given us is a microwave which can cook whatever you want from a packet. It’s a silver packet of dehydrated food with the name of the meal, you put it in the microwave and press the button that says the meal name and it, its ready in five to ten minutes. 
Concerts and movies are now done by a projector of some sort, you just have to pay a fee for it but it’s not much. I use it mostly in the summer time. I would put the screen up in between the trees and watch them outside by the automatic fire. We aren’t allowed to make a real fire because all of the damages a fire did in the past years, but the automatic fire is pretty much the same. It gives out warmth and light and you can even cook marshmallows the way you want them. You just have to press a button, the fire also detects when someone or something is too close and it will shield itself up. 
Every house has a tube on the side of the house, which is the new way people travel these days. Again just press a button on the map where you would like to go,  I usually go to Amsterdam in the winter time, I just love watching the snow fall on the bridge while I drink a hot chocolate. Also you can take your animals with you. I usually take Boy George. 
When people pass away, they don’t get buried anymore, their ashes become seeds of their favourite foods, you can plant and grow them, that way they’re with you. 
I’m quite happy with the way my life has turned out, I’m living my best life with my animals, thats really all I need, my animals and the bliss-fullness of peace of my cabin in the woods. 
I’m now ready to go back to my normal aged and learn to live in peace with myself. 
Haley.


Dear readers, this week’s topic is age reversal.
Let me start by telling you about twelve year old Charlotte. I was going to primary school and I disliked doing maths very much. My favourite subjects were reading and writing, but my favourite time of the day was always home time. Halloween as a kid was so much fun because we went trick or treating as a family and now that I have gotten older I go trick or treating by myself. 
Written by Charlotte 


Halloween blog is reversing your age and remembering Halloween. 
I am four years old and I didn't want to go to Halloween because I was too young and was scared.
My sister went trick-or-treating and I did not go. She wanted to dress up as a ghost, a scary ghost.
She got one of our black sheets and cut holes for eyes.
She went to houses in our street that were decorated. She got lots of lollies but she didn't share with me, I was upset and I cried. I couldn't wait to be old enough to go trick or treating and get my own lollies
Ben 2 


Celebration of Halloween this year will be by 91st celebration.
I love Halloween and have celebrated every year for 91 years.
All the kids are scared of me.
I was holding the bowl of candy for the kids and all the kids are scared too, I was looking at the mirror for the kids and the kids were scared and then ran away.
I was walking with my wood stick and I watch the kids and the kids are afraid of me.
I love that Halloween makes the kids even more scared of me.
This is the best Halloween night ever.
I decorated the haunted house I made of spider webs, I made gravestones and I made a skeleton.
This is the coolest Halloween decoration ever and  remember I am just pretending to be turning 91.
This is Korey
Signing off
And Happy great Halloween everyone.


Hi friends how are you today's topic is age reversal. 
Today I am two years old and I am going to tell you about my day and what I did. I woke up and had a bottle of milk it was so yum. Then mum picked me up and changed me into my clothes for today. My top is Daniel Tiger and it was my favourite and I had leggings that match my top. I was so cute my hair was in little pigtails with white bows. After I got dressed mum brushed my teeth with a little minnie mouse toothbrush with a bubblegum toothpaste for babies. Mum picked me up and put me in a pram and put a dummy in my mouth and buckled me in and she walked the pram outside and she pushed the pram to the park. When we got there I played on the slide, mum pushed me on the swing and ran around and put me back in the pram and mum buckled me in and she pushed me back home. When we got home mum said time for a nap and I said "NO I DON'T WANT TO NAP I WANT TO PLAY" I  had a tantrum until I wore myself out and layed down and fell asleep, then woke up two hours later. I played with my toys and then had dinner and then mum rocked me and then she put me to bed.
Thank you for reading my blog. This is Beth signing off until next week.     

 ​Age Reversal Blog...  
While we were talking about what to write about our lovely Haley suggested that we take our ages and swap the numbers and write about ourselves as that age, now being that was roughly nine years ago I honestly can't remember what I was doing when I was twenty-three. I did, however, have the bright idea to look up what year it was when I was twenty-three. When I was twenty-three, it was 2016. I can with absolute confidence tell you that 2016 was a great year for me.  
One of the major things that happened in April that year, the 29th of April to be exact; was that I met my idol and absolute favourite singer and actress Delta Goodrem. It was for her song Dear Life, and I believe she was Westfield's fashion ambassador at the time. The conditions of the meet and greet were that the first 100 or so people who purchased the physical copy of Delta’s single Dear Life would get to meet Delta and obviously I was extremely keen to meet Delta, so I arrived at 7:30am and was the 3rd person in line. The actual meet and greet was for the afternoon, but I understandably wasn’t taking any chances. I spent the whole day at Westfield, and it was also my dad’s birthday, but it was such a great day, and I got to hug Delta Goodrem! Unfortunately, anxiety and excitement got the better of me, and I went completely mute and couldn’t talk to her after I said hi. 
Later in the same year (November 4th I believe) I went to The Wings of The Wild Tour, which was Delta Goodrem’s 2016 tour. It was at Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne, and we had ground floor tickets which was so exciting! I did quite a lot of singing and dancing to both new and old Delta songs; my 8-year-old self would have really loved that experience and would have been extremely envious of 23-year-old me.  Honestly it was such a wonderful and fun time because not only was I seeing Delta perform but I was seeing her with my best friend Holly. We stayed in the city at the Mantra, had fancy cocktails with our kid's meal dinner at TGIFridays and just enjoyed the time together in the city of Melbourne.  
I also had the experience of doing yoga at the M.C.G., which was also with Holly. She had entered us in a competition and did not tell me until we won, I'm so glad she did it though because it was a fun day. We really loved the experience though we didn't take it very seriously and got to watch Hawthorn play afterward from a box. We had a lovely afternoon tea as well, which was very fancy. We got some cool goodie bags on the day too.  
I hope you enjoyed coming back to 2016 with me and thank you so much for reading our blogs. We appreciate it so much.  
Your friend, 
Shan.  

Something that I have been excited about lately is going to podcasting every Wednesday after bowling. I love my voice, reading and listening back to it.
I have another exciting thing happening soon and that is the Disney Cruise. I will be on the cruise when you get to read my blog. I am excited for the drinks and the shows on stage. It is a girl gang girls only trip with my mum, aunty and cousins. I am looking forward to the spa and lots of beautiful dinners together. I get butterflies in my tummy when I am excited and I am very excited for this cruise.
Every week I get excited for my routine and it is Halloween soon. We will do "Handmade" on Mondays Halloween style. I am excited for this. I was very excited for Dinner with Friends on Tuesday because wore my evil queen purple and black dress with the witches hat. I showed everyone my evil queen cackle.
Thank you for reading my blog once again, Claire. 


Dear readers, this weeks topic is something that you are looking forward too. Let me start by telling you about how I am looking forward to Halloween because I get to dress up and get to put on makeup and I get to go trick-or-treating. I love watching Halloween movies. Scream, every instalment every year. I watch these every Halloween season. I feel happy and excited when Halloween comes around because I love Halloween. 
Written by Charlotte. 



We all know by now that I love Halloween and horror movies. Last year my friend and I went to Luna Park for Halloween which was amazing.
It’s was fully decked out with Halloween decorations, the staff members were dressed up, I went dressed up as a broken doll, and my friend went as the bent neck lady from the series The Haunting of Hill House.  We stayed in an apartment in the city, then caught the tram to Luna park. You should have seen the looks we got. 


This year for Halloween myself and the same friend are going to the Aquarium, for a candlelight horror soundtrack performance which will includes some songs like 

• Run Nancy from A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Main Theme (Extended) from Nightmare on Elm Street
• Cry Little Sister from The Lost Boys
• Main Title from The Shining

I’m so excited for this because it’s something I love and it’s something new that I haven’t done before.
Haley.


I went to see Imminence at the Forum Theatre, they are a metal band.
I went with mum and her mate Craig, they were awesome.
The light show was the coolest I  have ever seen, my favourite song is Beyond the Pale.
The concert was very busy to go in the mosh pit, there were thousands of people.
I bought an awesome t-shirt that has the logo and the coolest, darkest shirt.
The first band was Inertia, they are an Aussie metal band and they look so cool.
One of the guys plays the violin and it was the coolest concert I have ever seen.
And that dude has got long hair and he was head banging. 
Korey 


Dear readers, how are you? 
Today’s topic is something that I am looking forward to.
I have chosen to write my blog about something happening in a few weeks.  I will be having braces attached to my top teeth and bottom teeth.
The procedure to have all of this done is quite a lot of work. I have to have an expander attached to the top of my mouth (which is called a palate expander) which will slowly expand my mouth. It will stay in my mouth for six months. The bottom of my gums will have a procedure to move my mouth a little forward.
Before all of this I had to have moulds done of my gums which involves them making a paste and carefully inserting the mixture into my mouth to form a casing for the braces.
I will be having this done at the Royal Dental Hospital in Melbourne.
This sounds like a lot of work but I will be looking forward to seeing the outcome and will have the most beautiful teeth and the a gorgeous smile to show all my friends and family.
Bethany


What am I looking forward to? I am looking forward to the Down Syndrome Market on Sunday and l am selling my everyday people merchandise such as hats, t-shirts, hoodies for people and even dogs and cups. My friend is selling her tie dye clothing especially for babies. My other friend likes to do art so he's selling some art pieces.
I am really happy that I am doing it.
And I am a little bit nervous
I hope I get lots of buyers at my store.
From Ben2



I love a beautiful hot day in America and some of my friends love to go to Disney California Adventure Park. I was excited for the scooter, zooming around the hotel. It was so much fun. I look around for somewhere to buy fun and cool stuff. I am looking forward to the Five Nights at Freddie’s 2 movie, might be with my friend, or even Black Phone 2 movie together. It will be a good movie, because I love every scary movie. 
TJ


So freaking excited…
Most people are aware that I’m a bit of a Disney fan and that my absolute favourite Disney movie is The Lion King. I absolutely LOVE The Lion King and that still doesn’t do justice to how much I love The Lion King. It’s an obsession and I am proud of it. If you didn’t know this about me then congratulations you’ve just learned something new about me. You learn something new everyday.
My childhood was mostly watching The Lion King with a side of other shows and movies. I would get excited about many Lion King themed things and was very excited to learn about the existence of the Lion King Musical. Though I didn’t think I would ever be able to see it because it rarely comes to Australia.
In 2005 my grandparents went to The Lion King musical in Melbourne and gave me the program from the musical and it became a dream of mine to go and see it. It has been a permanent bucket list item and is always at the top. I have spent years hearing people say how amazing it is but now I get to be one of those people.
I AM GOING TO SEE THE LION KING MUSICAL!!! As you can probably tell I’m very excited about this and so grateful to those who have helped make it happen because as I said it’s been a dream of mine to be able to go and see this beautifully put together musical of my absolute favourite movie.
My heart is full and I hope that you all have a wonderful day!
Your friend,
Shan.

Hello and welcome to another weekly blog. Today we are talking about something we are looking forward to. I’m looking forward to my Ashes trip and seeing the different venues I haven’t been to yet. I love all sports and the A-League starts this weekend which I’m really looking forward to. 
Thanks for reading my blog. 
Ben1

Today I am looking forward to see Southern Sons at Crown in the city as it’s one night only. It’s with Jack Jones, Peter “Reggie”Bowman, Angus Burchall and Brett Garsed. Jack, Angus and Brett were in the band with John Farnham in the 1990’s. So if it wasn’t for John Farnham in the 1990’s there wouldn’t be a Southern Sons like we know today. 
I am excited because I have met the band before. When I get excited it lights up my face and I feel overwhelmed but in a good way. Krystle has seen that for herself. Another thing that makes me feel excited and a good overwhelm is feeling everyone’s positivity in the room. That’s what I love about live gigs. 
Keep on rocking out, Ash. 

According to - Mental Health Foundation - Random acts of kindness are small, simple, and unexpected gestures that can have a big impact on others. Any act you do without a motive that stimulates a sense of happiness and joy in others counts as a random act of kindness. Examples include shouting someone a coffee, making them breakfast, or mowing their lawn

Doing something nice for someone and not needing it back, is an act of kindness.
I have done lots of kindness for my mum and she does for me too. I make cups of tea for my mum and that makes her very happy.
My dad gets lots of cuddles from me, which is kind. 
My nephews are kind and do lovely things for my mum and dad and their mum and dad too.
Krystle does kind things for me that makes me smile. Bernie is a lovely girl too who is kind to everyone. She is happy and she has a smile on her face which is kindness. Delia brings donuts on Thursday's which is kind of her.
I think it is important to be kind and important to be friendly, as it helps people feel happy.
I will miss Krystle, Steph, Cindy and Bernie and Delia too when I go for my Disney Cruise. soon.
My favourite kindness is hugs and back massage because the ladies work hard and are good to me.
My voice and podcast on Wednesdays are very fun and I enjoy doing it a lot.
Thank you all my readers. Until next time, Claire.
 
 
My friend came back from Japan and she gave me a t-shirt without me asking, it was a random act of kindness by my friend I was happy and she shouldn't have done that but I was grateful she did. She always gives me things when she goes away on holidays.
Recently, I did an act of kindness for someone special at Umbrella Support, I gave her dog a hoodie.
It was a hoodie I designed from my company called Everyday People, she loved it and showed everyone a photo of her dog Mavis in her hoodie.
I felt so good about it.
Ben 2

I like when people, who I don’t know,  smile at me. It makes me feel happy.
One day, I would like to write letters to my friends saying the things I like about them, and I hope that makes them smile.
I like when people watch my videos on YouTube and give me kind comments about my videos. 
I love making my videos, I love when people love it too.
I like making new friends, I will compliment them so they feel good about themselves. 
I like to help people when they need it like carrying the bag or opening the door.
To help the environment, I will pick up rubbish and throw it in the bin.
I buy a movie ticket with my mum and we went together. I like walking the dog, it is a good exercise being outside.
Thank you Korey.
 
A few months ago, my friend volunteered for a small business called “letters of hope”. 
How that works, is people send letters of hope asking them to write positive letters to people who are either having a bad time or just need a little bit of a pick-me-up.
One day I received a letter. I was unaware of what it was at first. I opened it and it was filled to the brim with positivity. 
It contained a little magnet that says “you are stronger than you think”, a little brochure of breathing tips and positive affirmations. 
Lastly, it had a handmade card that was made by someone, which was beautiful.  
So I’ll just write a little bit that was written in my card from my friend. 
“I’m thinking that we don’t share our pain and our vulnerability more? Sometimes we forget we are all just humans, we are all trying to do our best”
Another bit from the card:-
“What’s one small thing you can do right now to take care of you and move towards change?”
 
I also received another one from “letters of hope” but I left it at home. 
My friend also drew me pictures of all cute animals and little kind notes. For example, she would draw a cat with the lyrics of the cat song of healing, which goes:-
“Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow” another note I have kept she wrote me a poem which goes 
“You are enough,
You are good enough 
You are smart enough
You are strong enough 
You are beautiful enough 
You are kind enough
You are brave enough 
You are enough and always will be”.
I’ve kept all of her drawings she has drawn for me, because they means a lot to me, even though most people would just think it just a drawing on paper, to me it means the world. Knowing she has thought about me. 
I just hope she knows that I value her and her kindness and I cherish her.  
She also sends me reels of the cutest things, which lets me know she’s thinking of me.
Everyone needs a friend like my friend, because she will brighten up everyone’s lives just by being herself.
Please don’t ever change my friend. 
Your friend Haley 
 
Random acts of kindness… brain dump.
“No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.” – Aesop
Have you ever received or done a random act of kindness? I have had the privilege to have both, which I am incredibly grateful for, you don’t understand how grateful I am for the random acts of kindness that I have received. I’m also very blessed to be able to also pass on my own random acts of kindness to others, to strangers and to people I know.
Kindness wether intentional or not can change someone’s whole world. You don’t know what others are going through and sometimes even a simple smile can change a persons outlook on life. This is why I started leaving quotes and uplifting writings around random places, to spread kindness and to bring some joy and hope to people’s lives.
Kindness is such a beautiful, magical and powerful thing to share with the world and it can be in some instances the difference between life and death. I write letters for people who may need some hope and kindness and while I don’t know who they will be going to I am their biggest cheerleader, or a fairy godmother of kindness. I truly believe in that they can do amazing and wonderful things in life!
I support and encourage others to spread and participate in random acts of kindness, even if you just start with being kind to yourself and then branch out to others humans or otherwise. Everyone deserves to feel loved, appreciated, valued, safe and included. This includes you our dear readers, you are just as important as anyone else on this earth.
With every kindness,
Shan

Hey readers, how are you? Today's topic is acts of kindness. 
I have three very special, kind people in my life that I would do anything for. 
The reason I have picked these three people in my life is because they are my support workers who help me with my daily requirements. 
I appreciate them so much and want to thank them in return.
My first choice is Krystle who is an amazing cook and teaches many yummy recipes on a Tuesday and has all the patience in the world. I always feel comfortable and very safe when I'm with her. I would take Krystle to see Teddy Swims and also I would take her to see Taylor Swift.
My second choice is Cindy who is a beautiful person and very funny and is always happy to be with. My act of kindness to Cindy would be to take her to bowling and then out to dinner in the city to the Flowerdrum restaurant.
The 3rd person would be Bernie who always says kind and happy words to me, she always gives me the confidence to do whatever I want to achieve. I would love to take Bernie to Luna Park and spend the whole day there and eat lots of fairy floss. We would go on lots of rides and go to the magical castle at Luna Park.
I have so many kind and beautiful friends that show me their love that I want to in return give them my love and kindness.
Thank you for reading my blog readers. This is Bethany with a big heart of kindness signing off until next week.
(let us know what would be your act of kindness in the comments below). 
 
Cooking makes me happy, brownies and cookie. You all make me happy, but I make you all happy too. So it’s Halloween time now, party time for Halloween. I make people happy and have a good day. Happy from America so beautiful out there. I’m so happy for everything but two girls crazy at bowling and music make me calm and happy. I can’t wait for Radiovoice with Cindy and Daz. I’m happy to see my friends on the weekend to make them happy. Everyday I been happy and fun but sometime too tired. 
TJ

Once I did random acts of kindness.  My parents and I were in Aldi, we saw an elderly couple that were going to pay their groceries and their card kept on declining.  So my mother and I decided to pay for their groceries. They were in tears because we did something so special to them and they came back with a bunch of flowers to say thank you so much for doing that for them. 
 
One day, I didn’t have enough money in my bank account to fill up my car so my neighbour down the road told me to put $40 worth of petrol in and he ended up paying for me. As a thank you back to him I dropped a carton of beer off to say thank you so much. I was in tears because it was so beautiful what he did for me but I told him not to do it but he totally ignored me, but it was worth it. It’s so nice to see people helping each other out. Kindness can go a long way. It doesn’t matter if you’re struggling with finance or your mental health, you’ll find there’s always someone there to help you out. It doesn’t matter if it’s big or small but your kindness goes a very long way. 
Ash

Dear Readers this week’s topic is random act of kindness. Let me start by telling you about a time I did an act of kindness.
It started with my friend who was feeling down last week and needed cheering up, I thought if I could make him laugh and smile. 
I started by telling terrible jokes. At first he did not laugh, but he did smile. I would not give up on him laughing and I tried many jokes, funny comments and even smiling at him.
Finally after what seemed like a whole day I got him to laugh and smile and it was the best feeling. I will always continue to make my friends laugh.
Readers, have you done a random act of kindness or has someone done something special for you?
Written by Charlotte