Choose your own adventure – September 2025
 
Hello and welcome to our September edition of CHOOSE OUR OWN ADVENTURE! Today our bloggers have come from all over the world and we mean it! TJ was in America eating burgers and waffle fires and joined us for the morning brief via FaceTime... We LOVE this so much that we can connect so far away. TJ wanted to write his blog from California so it's only fair that we start with his blog this week...

Well it’s hot out here in America but really fun and I’ve had good time. I have had so much fun. I went on a scary adventure at California Adventure Park but some of those clown people were not that scary, they were funny and I laughed a lot.  I miss you all my beautiful friends and will see you when I get back next Monday. I went shopping too. – TJ.

​My chosen topic is friends. Friends are the people you hang out with apart from family. You can make friends at school, university, day programs (like Umbrella Support), or work. There are lots of activities you can do with friends, such as playing board games, going to the mall, eating ice cream, or drinking coffee.


I want to write about my handmade friends from the Umbrella Program. I am happy to see them every Monday. I am the only person in this group who was born in anther country. My friends’ favourite things are different from mine. For example, they enjoy birthday parties, but I don’t.


I also have a high school friend. She is very mature, talkative, positive, and bubbly. We talk a lot on WhatsApp, though not consistently because she is busy with her job. We’ve caught up four times already; our latest catch-up was in April 2025. This makes me happy because I enjoy reuniting with people I like. She also has a childlike spirit, loves Disney, and likes plush toys just like me. We’ve been friends since year seven, and I remember we asked each other icebreaker questions on the bus on the way to school camp.


I am usually quiet, but I can be talkative with this friend because I feel comfortable having deep conversations with her.


I used to have another friend, but our friendship ended in year ten. I remember when we were friends, she invited me for lunch at her house, went for a walk afterwards, and invited me to her birthday party too. We had a birthday dinner at a restaurant, and afterward, she blew out candles at her house. After our friendship ended, I didn’t make new friends immediately. Instead, I did colouring. My teachers aide organised a lunch club where special needs kids could do colouring or make loom bands, so I joined that instead.


I also used to have friends from Jakarta. We sometimes hung out at the mall with my mum, brother, her mother, and her sister. Her mother is very cheeky and funny. But now that we are adults, we don’t talk anymore. Adult life is very busy, and she probably has other friends now. It’s okay to lose friends, because at least I still have my Umbrella Support friends and my high school friend to talk to on WhatsApp.


I have some advice for anyone making new friends: ask lots of icebreaker questions with new people. If someone isn’t a good friend, it’s okay to stop being friends with them. Then you can hang out with other friends, or you don’t have to make friends at all if you don’t want to. The most important thing is to do what makes you happy.
Thanks for reading my blog. This is Jacinda signing off. 




Today's blog is a choose your own adventure and I'm going to talk about the cherry blossom festival. 


I recently went to the cherry blossom festival in Wandin East and I had the best day with my friends Beth, Ronalda, Martina and Steph. 


On the way there we listened to my favourite Disney songs and we all sang along together. We played a giant version of connect four, which was a lot of fun. I tried the hula hoop, I was really good at it and so were my friends. I took photos of the cherry blossoms and with all the props they had like chairs and photo frames. We went to the kids hub next where we did some activities and I sat on a bean bag. I made a pretty bracelet for my mum and also did some colouring. I had lunch at the festival, I ordered a potato twister with chicken salt and also had a slice of margarita pizza, it was so yummy.

Before we left we did a drink tasting, I tried cherry juice and a cherry spritzer, I LOVED them. We then headed back to the car and listened to some more Disney songs on the drive back. I had a great day and had so much fun.
This is Claire signing off, see you next week.




Today I am blogging about going to the Collingwood game, but today I am changing the outcome and we won the game.
Nick Daicos is my favourite player in the Collingwood team. Nick Daicos is a really good player and won the mark of the year.


I am pretending that we won the game, but we all know that we lost the game but we know that next year the team will win the Grand final.


I will wear my Collingwood jumper with the number 35 on the back and run on the footy field with the rest of the team. My position on the field will be goal kicking.
GO PIES.
Until next year.
The pies will be the Premiers in 2026 - Korey 






A week in the life of Haley. 
I’ve started an art book, which I’m trying to keep going with. I’ve learnt how to do optical illusions and new ways of colouring, for example, you can colour one part of the page, and draw in a paint brush to make it look like you’ve painted it. Or there’s a glitch pattern. Which looks amazing. 


I’ve been trying to look for different things to do on Pinterest and TikTok, on the weekend I’m going to try make oil rainbow paper just by using black paper, clear nail polish and water. Looks easy, but if you know me, I like to make things hard for myself.  One time I tried to shrink a twisties packet. Unfortunately I burnt the packet onto both of the trays that I used. Luckily it came off in the wash and a bit of elbow grease. 
I’ve also learnt how to  make a Zine, it’s like a folded paper that never ends but it does though. 


I also do jigsaw puzzles, I’ve done two in the last month and started one two days ago  
I did an abandoned place, one it was a lounge room that was tore up and empty.  I did a Pokémon one, and now I’m doing a the Grinch that Stole Christmas. It’s basically all white apart from the little pictures of the Grinch and wording. 


That’s my week done, but next week I’ll be looking after my furphew “Diego” who’s a delight to look after.
Haley. 




Choosing my own adventure…
Why hello to you our very amazing readers! Just in case you’re new or you have forgotten (it happens) let me reintroduce myself, I’m Shannon however I very much prefer Shan. Only a few people get away with calling me Shannon, honestly having to say Shannon three times in this blog was enough for me.


I love writing wether it’s blogs, journals, poems, letters or just random lists for the day. This is what lead me to doing the Just Write program with Umbrella. I really enjoy writing each blog for you all, even on days that I have writers block. I’m a big fan of a brain dump and this blog is going to be a brain dump. It’s just like a therapy session for me except I get to share it with anyone who might be looking for a good read. (Kind feedback welcomed).


Let the brain dump begin!! Have you ever thought about how as we go through our lives we are forever growing, learning and evolving. I would love to know how this make other people feel because it’s such an important thing to express and experience our feelings. For me I think life wants me to feel the whole rainbow of emotions when I start to think about how I’ve grown and evolved over the years. It feels like I’m discovering my superpowers and that’s a powerful and magical journey.


I have found that I’m constantly seeking out new things to learn, that I want to grow my mind and knowledge for the simple reason that it makes me happy and I enjoy it. I also really enjoy learning through doing things, I’m also a super visual learner which means that I like to see what I’m learning. There’s also a lot that I can learn about myself through learning other/new things.


I’m learning that I don’t always have to be doing things for a purpose or to prove my worth. That sentence in itself is proof of how much I have grown and evolved. I think that it’s really exciting to be continuing to learn things about yourself. It’s like you’re getting to know yourself like you would a good friend. I want to be as kind to myself as I am to others. I believe we all need to be kinder to ourselves.
I will be kind to me today and everyday (I will do my best anyway).
Love to you all,
Your friend,
Shan.




Choose your own adventure
To open my own tie-dye store. A big store for only tie-dye products. I would make drink bottles that would have pink blue, green, orange and red with the tie-die
patterns through it. 


My next product would be t-shirts with multiple colours running through the fabric. I would like to sell tie die pants for women and men, and maybe children also. And hoodies and jumpers as well and tie-dye sheets with pillowcases.


I would like to choose another adventure and open up another shop called “Over the Rainbow”.


From Ben2

 Dear readers, how are you all?  Today's topic is a choose your own adventure and I have chosen to write my blog about a story that I made up and it starts like this. 


Once upon a time there were nine princesses and they lived in a castle. The princesses' names were Cindrella, Aurora, Elsa, Snow White, Belle, Rapunzel, Jasmine, Ariel and Tiana.


They were doing fun things like karaoke, dancing, art and crafts, doing hair, nails and makeup. Each princess has their own bedroom which they decorate themselves with their favourite things. The prince charming's are allowed to visit on the weekends but the weekdays are girls only! 

The princesses have a lot of fun and eat every meal together which they take turns in cooking, tonight Elsa is cooking and we're having pasta and snow cones for dessert. We have lots of pets in our castle including Rajah, Jasmine’s tiger, Tiana’s frog, and Ariel fish friends. Tomorrow night is movie night and we will be watching Brave, which is a favorite around here. There is always something fun happening in our castle and all the princesses love to be there.


Thank you for reading my blog.
This is Princess Beth signing off until next adventure. 




Dear Readers  this week's topic is a choose your own adventure. 
Let me start by telling you about this week.  It has felt like a roller coaster ride of emotions  especially since I’ve been at home this week sick with a common cold. By the time you read this reader, I will be back at blogging next week and I’m feeling so excited to come back to media and  blogging and see all my friends including my boyfriend Ben, who I love so much.  To be honest  it’s hard for me to think of something to write when it comes to a choose your own adventure. 
​

Readers I have a question: what would you write about if you could write  about anything and you got to choose your own adventure as a topic?
Written by Charlotte

If you could invite anyone to dinner, who would it be and why?



Today’s blog topic is if you could invite anyone over for dinner who would it be and why?


If I could have dinner with anyone it would be Rapunzel because she is my favourite Disney princess. I would invite her over to my house and put lots of decorations up because I'm so excited to meet her, they would all be purple which is her favourite colour because Rapunzel has been stuck in her tower for so long I thought I would order uber eats because she’s probably never heard of it. I will order Thai food and get things like green curry, satay chicken skewers, and some spicy dishes too. 


For dessert we can make our own ice cream sundaes, I will buy the ice cream and all the toppings. I will also have lots of drinks to choose from like Coke, Pepsi, Sprite and Fanta. After dinner I will surprise Rapunzel with a hairdresser to cut her hair and dye it brown which will be so pretty for her. I will ask Rapunzel what her favourite Disney movie is? And maybe we could watch it together.


This is Claire signing off, see you next week.


I’ve handed out my dinner invites to the most amazing people ever, there’s Johnny Depp, people from the 27 club which includes Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix.

Other people like Tim Burton, all of the horror icons. This dinner will be a blast, it’s also a Halloween dress up theme dinner. 


I dressed up as a zombie Tinker Bell, Johnny couldn’t chose so he came as four different people, Willy Wonka, Captain Jack Sparrow, Mad Hatter and Edward Scissorhands. 

I hired out the haunted mansion for the dinner party. 


It’s already decorated, with ghosts floating around, spider webs  from the ceiling. 
Everyone sat around the coffin table, we chatted for a while, the entrees started to come out they were devilled eggs with little horns poking out of the top with a ghost milkshake, they were super creepy and adorable. 


The main is a blue spaghetti with meatballs in the shape of eyeballs. Paired with a green smoking martini. For dessert, is bobbing for poisonous apple. 


Dinner was over, we danced  the night away to graveyard hits, the monster mash was my favourite. To send the 27 club people back we used an Ouija Board to send them home at sunrise. 

I’m exhausted, but it was a great night. 
Your hostess with the mostess Haley 


Breakfast at dinner party…
This week I am blogging from home and as the blog topic came through I was making breakfast and naturally thought; I know I’ll have a breakfast at dinner party! You will wear what you would normally wear eating breakfast. What to bring? A pillow and blanket. Your plus one? Your favourite soft/plush toy companion. You will need to tell me your favourite breakfast foods and beverages so that it can be passed on to the caterers because your girl is NOT going to be cooking. I just want to be present in the moment and not be stressing over someone’s eggs.


Who am I inviting? You. Yes you our loyal, faithful and supportive readers will be invited to my breakfast at dinner party! How exciting for you, well I’m excited for you and you will be very welcome. There will be soft calming music playing for a calming breakfast environment, extra blankets for the always cold guests (I see you), pillows EVERYWHERE because we want you to be comfortable and you can leave whenever you’re social battery runs out.


I’m also thinking there should be therapy dogs for anyone who might want to join in but might feel a bit nervous. You can be social with the dogs and that will be wonderful! I’m sure the dogs will be very excited that you came and so will I! I will make sure that our canine guests are also catered for because why should they miss out!


You will have everything you need at this party, it’s important to me that everything is accessible and that you all feel included and welcomed. Which is why I haven’t mentioned a venue. I’m leaving that up to your imagination so that it’s a place you feel most comfortable and included.
Enjoy your breakfast at dinner my friends!
With every kindness,
Shan.


This week’s topic is about people I would like to invite for dinner. I would like to invite Michael Bublé, my parents, my brother, and Arifin Putra (Indonesian actor).


The food for our dinner would be: spaghetti bolognese, waffle chips, party pies, sausage rolls, and takeaway pizza. We would choose the Aussie flavour pizza, which has ham, onion, bacon, egg, and cheese—it’s one of my favourite flavours. We would also order Raptor pizza, with ham, salami, Italian sausage, crispy bacon, and mushrooms.


The dinner would be at my house. I would have deep conversations with the two celebrities, asking things like: What do you like to do in your free time? Favourite food? Country to visit? Do you watch any kid-friendly cartoons? I think Michael probably watches cartoons with his kids, as he has four children.


The theme would be pastel colours. The plates, cutlery, and cups would be in baby pink, yellow, mint green, and baby blue. Arifin would choose the baby blue plate because he likes blue. Michael and I would choose yellow, mum would choose baby pink, dad, mint green, and my brother blue.


Everyone enjoyed the food, especially the pasta and pizza. Then, when we were full, we all had Meiji Japanese ice cream that my parents bought at Astee Asian supermarkets.


I also want to do another dinner gathering with all my cousins, who are now adults and teenagers, along with my parents, brother, and nan. This dinner would be at one of my aunt’s houses. I was really nervous about seeing my extended family, but I pushed myself by talking to them, and they gave me hugs too.


I imagine chatting with my cousins about my life in Australia. They would listen carefully as I tell them about handmade craft activities, blogging, and working at Woolworths. One cousin asked, “Why aren’t you doing five-day-a-week activities?” I would calmly reply, “Oh, because it would be too tiring if I did full activities.” She said, “Fair enough, Cici Cinda.” I got called Cici because I am the eldest.


We eat the food while chatting. My aunty said, “I love your earrings, Cinda.” I replied, “Thank you, aunty! It’s Piglet; I bought it from Eastland.”


Thanks for reading. This is Jacinda signing off. Bye bye. 💛


Who would I invite to dinner and why.  I would like to invite the group Slipknot, the reason why is they are my favourite band.
They would come to my house and my mum world cook us burgers.
The burgers will be beef and they would have cheese, lettuce, tomato and burger sauce on them.
For dessert we will have is rainbow paddlepops.
I would ask the band to bring their instruments so they could play some music after dinner.
I would love if they played Sulfur for me as it's my favourite song.
This is Korey singing off see you next week.


Tie-dye started in China around the fifth century. My friend's business is Tie dying. She does work shops for schools. I would make pizzas for our tea.
We would both love to talk to the guy who made tie dying popular in the sixties. My friend sells stickers as well. And she sells her tie dye at markets.
Ben 2 signing off for the week.


Hello and welcome to a dinner time blog...............in the morning? Yes, you read that right readers. We are talking about who we would invite for dinner and why? I would have to invite all of the Hawthorn and Melbourne Storm players. I would also invite Usher, Bruno Mars and Callum Scott would definitely cook a Mexican and Italian fusion feast. For dessert I would love to cook a lemon meringue pie or chocolate mousse. I would have lots of snacks and drink so no one would go hungry or thirsty. It would definitely have to be a sporting theme. After dinner Usher would treat us to a concert and we would party all night long. The next night we would have a BBQ with sausages, burgers, BBQ potatoes and salad. After dinner Bruno Mars would perform and we go around Vegas partying. As we were partying I would ask Callum Scott  would perform “you are the reason” Who would you invite and why?


Keep being awesome. 
Ben1


Dear readers, this week’s topic is who would I invite to dinner and why.
Let me start by telling you about who I would invite and why.  It would be Ben, my boyfriend  because I have never had him over for dinner before. I would cook him spaghetti with gluten free pasta and for dessert I would make a  lactose free lemon and passionfruit  cheesecake. It would be a very romantic candlelight dinner and after dinner we would sit on the couch and watch movies.
Who would you invite to dinner and why?
Written by Charlotte.




Today blog is about who we would invite if we had any famous people over for dinner.
Who would it be, and why. They can be dead or alive.
I am going to invite the band members from John Farnham and Southern Sons, I'll be making a 3 course meal. For entree I'd make dry biscuits and dips, and or the main course I'll make a roast lamb and roast beef with roast veggies, gravy and garlic bread. For dessert, I'll make a trifle and rum balls with Bundaberg Rum in it. I also will make jelly slice as well.


We would have a drinking session with everyone and include Glen Weatley and his wife as well as Jimmy Barnes and INXS at my door step so I would have to let them in as well.
A phone call would come through from the lead singer from Dragon Marc Hunter and Scotty Clarke from Dear Enemy and Scotty Carne from Kids in the Kitchen.


Lastly, Brian Mannix from Uncanny Men would arrive. We would party until 6:00 am the next morning and I know I would wake up with a massive hangover.
I would be too tired and hungover to clean so my cleaners would clean whilst I sleep.
I'm not shy with social media and because Cindy and Krystle saw my photos they both rang me to check that I was ok and decided to come over. Cindy was star-struck when she saw Michael Hutchence in the hall way and Krystle was so happy to see John Farnham. Bernie and Delia tagged along too and and were in shock in the kitchen when they saw Jack Jones.


David Hirschfelder was playing Playing to Win, the Age of Reason and Chain Reaction.
It was time for a second party the next night and the same people came but this time we had pizza and KFC. Daz turned up this time looking for Cindy.. but she was asleep, recovering.
Thanks for reading, Ash here until next time. 


Hi readers, today's topic is inviting someone special to dinner and why I have chosen that person, which is the famous Taylor Swift.
The theme for this dinner will be all decorated in her favourite colours purple, pink and gold with lots of pink flowers on the table, purple candles
and beautiful large gold placemats.

The outfits to wear at this dinner party which are Taylor's favourite, are the love story outfit, the lavender haze style dress and the red era party dress.  Last choice is the fearless country chic outfit which are some of her outfits she likes to wear on stage.

We will have an entrée which will be deviled eggs because that's one of her favourite foods. 

Main meal is going to be burgers and fries. 
Desserts would be ice cream, chai sugar cookies and cinnamon rolls. 


The drinks we will be serving will be cocktails, her favourite is called French Blonde followed by a vodka diet coke and lavender haze which consists of purple gin. 

We will play her music in the background and finish off doing karaoke at the end of the night. 

I know this will be an amazing night and having such a special person in my life and enjoying our friendship together while making new memories that will last forever 

The support workers are more than welcome to come to this dinner party and meet Taylor and have a good time and make a new friend.
​
This is Beth (Taylor Swift's new found best friend) signing off until another adventure comes next week.  

"A problem shared is a problem halved" is a proverb meaning that discussing your issues with someone else can lighten the emotional burden and make them easier to manage, solve, or overcome. By sharing, the weight of the problem feels less overwhelming, as you no longer carry the full responsibility alone and can benefit from another person's perspective or advice.

I had to give my sister a gift for her birthday. I went to TK-Maxx to buy her bracelets, she loved it, I love my sister. I made a card and wrapped her presents.  I also made a card from Father's Day, and he loved it too.

I bought Dad a new black jacket for Father's Day and I wrapped his presents.
I love stop-motion animation. But what if my laptop decided not to work?
This is what I would do because there was a charger and I would make sure it is charged. 
Korey


Today I had nothing to write in my blog so I started eating donuts, but Delia took the donuts away until I started writing and suddenly my brain started to work.
On Tuesday night I had a problem as my taxi was late after Dinner with Friends. Cindy was waiting with me until the taxi arrived. I had a phone with me so l rang for a taxi. It took a while to get to me but spending time with Cindy, was fun. Ben2


My problem I will be talking about in my blog today is that sometimes I get bored and there is a few different ways I like to solve that problem. During the week I like to keep myself busy, on Mondays and Tuesdays I do arts and crafts, on Wednesdays I go to bowling and to dancing, on Thursdays I do blogging and media and on Friday's the group I go to does different activities each week. On Saturday's when I can, I like to go out with my best friend Krystle. We have the best time together at Fountain Gate, we have lunch, watch a movie and listen to Disney songs on the way. Sometimes when I don't have things planned I get pretty bored so I do things like playing games on my iPad and phone, watch YouTube, call my friends and practice my new dance moves.
My friends make me happy so I love when I get to see them and hang out with them.
This is Claire signing off, see you next week.


Dear readers, this week’s topic is something that hasn’t gone to plan and how did you resolve it? 
Let me start by telling about this morning. I had an issue with my wifi on my phone because when I tried calling someone I love, I couldn’t hear them. My phone was on the hotel room wifi and I resolved the issue by switching off my wifi and face timing the person instead. I’m glad I was able to solve the problem so I could FaceTime my boyfriend Ben who I love and cherish. 
Written by Charlotte 


A problem solved for me recently is that i didn’t have enough ingredients for dinner. I was cooking for the family but had to compromise on what I wanted to cook so I could use things that I already had in the pantry. My plan was to cook roast beef and veg but I didn’t have enough gravy. I had to do a pan gravy instead. I also wanted to make sure I had enough for the freezer for leftovers. 
On this day I also didn’t have enough vegetables so in the end the only way I was able to solve my problem was to quickly go to the supermarket.  
Ash. 


I wake up in the morning then I go to shower every morning get ready for Krystle but really tried I need some coffee for the morning go to Umbrella get my own lunch shop, if I don’t get up my mum will kick my butt but oh lord mama, I need to get ready before Krystle or she will shake my ankles. Steph too will be shaking my foot to wake me. I need to be better at waking up in the mornings. I am busy and need to stay busy for my life
TJ

I had trouble writing this blog, I wrote a fair bit about a road trip I went on with my cats Banshee and Maggie and my friend Sunny and her dog Claude.  But I started writing and it wasn’t going where I wanted it to, so I decided to erase all of my blog and started to write the problem I had writing it. 

Sometimes you can have a great story in your head and once you start writing or typing it out, it doesn’t turn out as good as you thought it would be, that’s my problem today.  And that’s okay. 

Nothing is permanent, and most problems can be solved, and you can always ask for help if you need it.  But this problem I could have solved it by myself and re wrote my own blog myself. 

A few more problems I’ve had during the week that were being able to be solved.
I had a doctors appointment and I was so anxious about my results, but my GP, told me my results were very good so that’s one part of the problem solved. 

I had a 1000 piece puzzle, I’ve had out on the kitchen table for ages.   I did need help with the puzzle, so my dad helped me with it and I completed it yesterday.  

I love watching tv shows, but picking a show is hard. Sometimes I love watching horror or comedy, all depending on my mood. Lately I’ve been watching 3rd Rock from the Sun and Married with Children. I wanted to watch a horror/ true crime show but took me ages to pick a show. I did in the end it was Only Murders in the Building. I’ve only watched one episode, but so far, so good. 

See, problems can be little or big but every problem is valid.
Another thing before I end,  R u okay?  
Haley 


Today, I have a problem. I can’t think of a blog topic. Oh wait, yes, I can. Today’s topic is all about solving problems. We all have problems in our day-to-day life that we have to solve.  In my life I have to deal with problems often. To survive in this world, we all need to solve problems otherwise life would be too boring.

Recently I had to solve a problem regarding Father’s Day. I had brought too little so I needed to buy another present so I had to problem solve by buying tickets to Hawthorn’s Best and Fairest. Another problem I had to solve is trying to get tickets to the Melbourne Storm but this was made easy as the club were very helpful. Some problems are super easy to solve and some are harder, but with a little imagination we can solve anything.
Keep being awesome.
Ben1


Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill…
This is much easier said than done, especially in the moment as your feelings maybe heightened and you may feel extremely stressed, overwhelmed and filled with more anxiety than you know how to handle. This means that even a small problem can feel like the biggest and most pressing thing in the world. Your feelings are always valid and it’s always important to take the time and space to work through the problem however works best for you.

I am much better at solving other peoples problems than my own. The world seems to be ending when I need to face my own problems, but I’m the world’s best problem solver when it comes to others. This is why it’s important to have a support system and work on the problems that arise as they come. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but once the problem has passed I think about all the things I could have done better to deal with and solve the problem.

I’m trying to work on growth within myself for my mind and body so that I can learn to be a lot calmer and less anxious when problems come my way. I say body because stress and anxiety can cause physical symptoms and if they can be avoided that would be fabulous.

I think that we will always be faced with problems in each of our journeys that we call life, it’s just a part of the human experience. It’s how we manage and deal will the problems in life that’s important. I say this knowing full well that I should be taking my own advice and maybe I should read this blog to myself.

Hopefully today is a problem free day for you and you are blessed with a peaceful day.
Your friend always,
Shan.


Dear readers, how are you?

Today’s topic is if we have a big problem how do we solve it? 

Laying in bed one day I looked at the mess on my bedroom floor which was starting to be a massive problem, but to solve this I would have to clean it all up. 
Where do I start?

There's clothes everywhere, shoes on the floor, toys expanding everywhere from corner to corner, I can't see the colour of the floor, the desk has a mirror on it which reflects double of the mess. 

Once I motivate myself to clean up this problem, I will have the prettiest room which will make mum happy. If I can keep my room tidy and know how to solve the problem, my room should stay this way for a long time.

This is Beth (the cleaning lady with magic hands) signing off until next week from my new email 
Beth.


There were times when things didn’t go to plan. It can be hard for me because I don’t like unexpected changes, but that’s part of life sometimes.

I want to share about Covid times in 2020. I thought 2020 was going to be a great year for everybody, but it was such a sad time for so many people. I was still working at Woolworths then. I remember in March I didn’t do facing because there weren’t many items on the shelves. Instead, I did returning products. I preferred doing facing because it was easier for me. Luckily, that only happened once, and the next shift I went back to facing again. Everyone had to wear a mask to protect each other.

During Covid I also had my second job at Australia Post Sprintpak, but that job wasn’t consistent like Woolworths. If there were lots of jobs I could do well, the agency would call me, and when the job finished the agency or supervisor would let me know.

When I had a break from Sprintpak, I stayed home and kept myself busy—that’s how I resolved it. At home, I liked to relax by watching cartoons in my room to keep happy during lockdown. Sometimes I watched funny Indonesian videos on Instagram or YouTube. I also helped my grandparents prepare lunch. They lived with us during Covid, and they were okay staying home all day because even before Covid they usually stayed home too.

I also remember in July 2021, I was supposed to reunite with a friend at the local shopping centre. Then I heard on the news there was another lockdown. I was so sad and disappointed because I really like reuniting with people. But we rescheduled, and finally met in November 2021 when things were back to normal and Christmas was coming.

In July 2021, I still did one-on-one support with Cindy. We usually went to fun places, but when shops and cafes were closed, Cindy and I did a video call with silly filters. It was good that even in lockdown we could still be silly and giggle together.

Then, on Cindy’s birthday, I finally got to go out with her. Lockdown was still happening, but Cindy and I hung out at a café where Handmade (craft program with Umbrella) was held. The café staff let us stay even though lockdown was on. I remember doing diamond painting and video calling some friends too, which was fun.
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That’s how I resolved some problems during Covid, when things didn’t go to plan.
Thanks for reading this week’s blog.
This is Jacinda, signing off.

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​Adventures…
 
Where would you go on an adventure or where would you go if you could journey anywhere in the world? Speaking of a journey, that’s our challenge word in today’s blog. Let’s see how our team are able to use this word in their writing!
 

When I was born I was rushed to the Royal Children’s Hospital and my journey would start in and out of that hospital through my childhood. I have two older brothers, both born in the 80s, who now both have a family of their own. 

In my younger childhood, I remember a few memories which I’ll write about, because it’s my journey and I’m happy to share. 

One memory with my Grandma is that she had a blue two-door hatch back, a two seater. Every time I got into the car, she told me I had to sing to the car to make it start, so I did. The other memories I have is with my brother. We were walking home from the shops and she saw us and pulled over to pick us up. Remember there were two seats in her car? Well, I hit the jackpot, a cardboard box big enough to fit me was in the boot. Luckily it was only up the road.  I mention this memory all the time as it’s a fond one. 

I did kindergarten twice because my parents thought I would grow a little bit taller to fit in with the rest of my class mates, but they were definitely wrong. I did meet my best friend though.  We took different paths after about twenty years, which hurt in a way but that’s a part of life’s journey isn’t it?

In my teenage years, my friends had their ups and downs too. I managed, even though I have some sad memories during these years.  

One time I had a bully, who was in my group of friends during that time. I chose to sit in the hallways on my own.  Until I  went home one day and burst into tears telling my mum. She made me realise that it was the bully who had the problem not me, and I shouldn’t be frightened to stand up for myself. 

I remember going to Tasmania with my dad, brother and my pop, we drove all around Tasmania in my dad’s Mitsubishi Mirage. One morning, we had an animal visit us. He came to the front door of our room. We hand fed it in the snow. That’s another very fond memory of mine. 
 
Adulthood for me has its up and down, but that’s life again, isn’t it? 

I heard this quote ages ago and I like it: 

“It’s your parents first time, it’s a strangers first time, it’s your first time on this journey called life, so just be kind”

So there you go, that’s my life’s journey, so far. 
Haley
 
 
Hello and welcome to another adventurous blog where I'm going on a journey back in time when I went to the UK. I have been to the UK a few times which I really enjoyed. I went for my 18th birthday to watch Manchester United play, then again a few years ago for the Ashes. 

I love the adventure of going on a holiday and discovering new places. Especially new airports and seeing all the modern architecture along with all the old. I love seeing different cultures and how they live in their modern lives and how it differs from ours. How do people who are less fortunate than us feel when they see us with beds etc? People who sleep rough or are in a less fortunate position. Travelling gives you perspective. 

I love eating spicy food and trying different cuisines. I wonder what it would be like to live how they live? How would you embrace different cultures? Keep being awesome and thank you for joining me on my latest adventure. Ben1
 
 
I want to go on an adventure again to Disney as I am a Disney girl.
I love Disney because I have lots of fun. I love the rides the most, especially the Tea Cups and the Peter Pan ride.

I love to wear Minnie Mouse ears when we go to Disney. It's a long journey there on the plane, but I love the food andI hope Disney will be my next big holiday.

I am going to see Annie tonight with mum and my cousins, and I can't wait.
I hope one day soon we will go to Shanghai, as I haven't been to that Disneyland yet.

The castle is a little different, it's called the Enchanted Storybook Castle, and at night time they do the Disney lights. It looks very pretty. I am excited because Mickey Mouse is there too. Some rides are different and they have some different characters. I have looked at the map and it has many different parks. I am excited it would be a great journey for me.

I have a Disney cruise coming in October and I can't wait. I am all about Disney.
Thank you for reading my blog, your Disney Princess Claire.
 

Knotfest was held in Melbourne this year on the twenty-eighth of February at Flemington Racecourse. I went with my mum and her friend. We had a great car journey to get there as it took over an hour. It was fabulous, there were two stages and thirty bands.
My favourite was Slipknot. This year it was their twenty fifth anniversary. Lots of people were wearing masks. 
I love their music and my favourite song is Gematria. It was the first time they did it live and I was there, so were over twenty thousand other people.
It was the BEST
From Korey, your dude.
 
 
On Saturday, I am going to see Annie The Musical with friends.
It will be so good and we will be going by taxi, it will be a fun journey. I am going to buy a program at the show. - From Ben 2
 
Hi readers, how are you? Today’s topic is adventures, and I have chosen to write my blog about going on a cruise.

I have a dream to go on a cruise in April on the Disney wonder and journey from Melbourne to New Zealand. We will be on the ship for 5 nights before arriving in Auckland where I will stay at the Hilton Hotel for 5 nights. 
 
On the Disney cruise I look forward to watching the shows, meeting the Disney characters, karaoke, eating foods, buying merchandise and visiting the spa. I would like to buy a book so I can get all of the characters' autographs, and take photos with them too. At the spa I would get a facial and maybe some other treatment. I’m really excited to try all the themed foods like Mickey waffles and ice cream. 
This is Beth signing off, I can't wait for my holiday one day. See you next week.
 
 
I want to share with you all about my trip to Indonesia in 2011. At that time, I visited my baby cousins. I actually had two baby cousins that year—one was just a newborn and the other was one year old. They are teenagers now and have Instagram accounts too.
I also remembered when I went to Banjarmasin, I saw another cousin who was in kindergarten at the time. I have lots of cousins from my mum’s side. He was on holidays with his mother. He has an older sister too, but she was at school. I remember he was whinging to his mum because he wanted a Kinder Joy chocolate and to go to the mall. 
I went to Indonesia again in 2013 to help my grandparents move to Australia. I visited Jakarta, Banjarmasin, Surabaya, and Balikpapan. In Surabaya, my brother, my nan, and my little cousins went to a fun place called Jatim Park. It was fun—you could look at animals, go on a gentle boat ride, and eat lunch there.

I also remembered visiting Balikpapan, where I have other cousins. I actually never chatted much with them because I find it difficult to start conversations with people I don’t usually talk to. So my cousins just chilled on the sofa watching Disney Junior and anime on TV or played on their gadgets like their DSi and iPad. I also noticed my cousins wore some of my old trousers—they were pastel yellow with cute designs. I had outgrown them, so mum decided to give them to my cousins. 

Now I am writing about my 2015 Indonesia trip. I didn’t go to Jakarta this time because my grandparents were already living with me permanently. Usually, it was just mum, my brother, and I who went to Indonesia. My dad didn’t come, same as in 2011 and 2013. We went to Indonesia to celebrate my grandma’s belated seventy birthday dinner.
I also remembered stepping out of my comfort zone—I got my makeup done. I’m not really into girly stuff like makeup and nail polish, but I do like earrings and girly movies. I did it for a family photo.

The ladies wore magenta dresses for the photos. The boys wore shirts and trousers, and one of my little cousins wore a tuxedo. I remember taking group photos with my grandma and all her grandkids. We also had a full family photo together.
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After the family photos, we had dinner at a Chinese restaurant. We didn’t sing happy birthday or have cake, but I remember my grandma gave all her grandkids red envelopes, and we all gave her a kiss.
Thanks for reading about my Indonesia trips. It was such a good journey.
Love from,
Jacinda
 
Two more weeks and I go to Disney and Universal Studios too. This is going to be fun and beautiful out there. It’s my first time that I’ve been there so it’s gonna be so much fun. I will miss you all for one week. I'm not sure if i can get autographs from everyone. 
TJ
 
Dear readers, this week’s topic is about adventures. Let me start by telling you about my adventurous journey which is about to start very soon as I’m heading off to Cairns. I’m feeling very excited to go to Cairns will do so many fun things while I’m there. The place we are staying has a rooftop swimming pool and I’m going to swim in the pool. We’re going to explore Cairns and I will tell you all about my trip when I come back. When this week’s blog comes out I will still be away enjoying myself. Have you ever been to Cairns or have you ever traveled to a place that you have enjoyed being on holiday?
Written by Charlotte
 
 
We’re going on an adventure!
Alright my friends, pack your backs, grab your favourite plush or stuffed toy, pack your favourite snacks, grab your water bottle and wear your comfiest clothes because we are going for a drive. Don’t stress about the destination because that’s not important at this moment in time. You aren’t driving so just get in the car and brush up on your navigation skills for when you need to be a navigator, but otherwise just sit back and enjoy the journey. Now that I've got you in travel mode and you’re all excited and ready for an adventure, let's get to this week's blog. It would be fantastic for some travel reading material, just saying.
 
My most recent adventure was a long drive from one Australian state into another, and I really enjoyed my adventure. One, because it was with my sister and two, because we travelled to see my chosen family. What is a chosen family? Well my chosen family are people who are like family to me, but we aren't related in any way. So, for example I would say I am going to see my sister and her family. It's special to have a chosen family as well as a real family.

I went slightly off track, but I did feel it was important to explain what a chosen family is. Now to the adventure, I have seen the most beautiful landscape, animals and people (my people). I’m not a huge fan of snow but I saw some in New South Wales that was so beautiful and clean. It was like something out of a fairytale and even more special because it was completely untouched by human influence. I saw a wallaby with a baby in her pouch, currawongs, rosellas, kookaburras and an abundance of other wild and beautiful creatures.
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I got to see and love my chosen family for a few days and spend time just enjoying their company. There is something magical about being with them in their home nestled in the middle of nowhere, it is such a peaceful place to be. I get to share in their world and make some memories. I really had a wonderful time and have so many more things I could share but I'm not writing a novel today. This is my blog post and I’m so happy that you, our dear readers, are a part of our blogging journeys.
All the love and kindness to you and yours,
Your friend,
Shan.

Choose your own adventure – August 2025
 
Hello and welcome to our August edition of CHOOSE OUR OWN ADVENTURE! Today our bloggers have been given the challenge in their blogs to incorporate the word POSITVE:
 
Hi I am a Disney Princess. I like am just like Ariel the little mermaid because I love to swim.
I have been to Princess Jasmines castle, and I hugged Jasmine. She hugged me back and it made me very very happy.
I like King Triton and how Ariel finds her true love.
I love Tangled too because I love the music and her long hair.
Snow White is one of my favourites too because she is a princess who can talk to the animals and the seven dwarves Happy, Sneezy, Doc, Bashful, Sleepy, Grumpy and Dopey. I even like the Evil Queen with her apple.
Princess Aurora is also a favourite because her dress turns blue, then pink, then blue, then pink thanks to her fairy Godmothers. The evil sorcerer Maleficent too. Princess Aurora can also talk to the forest animals like little rabbits and little birds. Cinderella is also a favourite because of the glass slipper and her Prince Charming.
What I love the most about the Disney Princesses is that they are all friends and they make me feel positive and happy.
Claire
 
I am feeling positive today because I get to do blogging every Thursday, and I really enjoy it. This time I want to write about ice cream.
There are so many ice cream flavours to choose from, such as chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, biscoff, salted monkey, choc mint, cookies and cream, and more. You can buy ice cream in a supermarket, minimarket, ice cream parlour, or even in fast food restaurants like McDonald's. They have McFlurries too—my favourite is the Oreo McFlurry. But my most favourite ice cream parlour is Wendy's. I usually order the cookies and cream Megashake there.
I have also been to other ice cream parlours, such as Baskin Robbins in Jakarta. I remember going there with my parents, brother, and uncle when he visited Jakarta. He ordered three scoops of ice cream! I also went there once with my friend and her mum after school. There’s also Baskin Robbins in Japan. Back when we lived in Jakarta, my parents took my uncle to Häagen-Dazs Café too.
I prefer to eat ice cream in a cup because it’s easier. Another positive thing about eating in a cup is that the cups often have fun designs and colours, depending on where you buy the ice cream.
Ice cream parlours can be very busy, especially during summer holidays. Lots of parents like to buy their kids ice cream as a treat on hot days. But I haven’t really seen Wendy’s get too busy. I do remember going to San Churros one long weekend in March—it was so crowded with a group of kids having a playdate with their parents.
One of my favourite ice creams in Jakarta was from Indomaret (a minimarket). It was a Walls ice cream cup. The chocolate one was my favourite—it had chocolate on both sides and vanilla in the middle. There was a strawberry one too, but I liked chocolate more. I also remember buying a choc mint ice cream at Family Mart in Osaka Airport. It was yummy!
From Woolworths, I really like the Oreo ice cream sandwich. It looks like a big Oreo biscuit, but it’s actually ice cream inside! I also love Meiji ice cream from Japan, which you can buy in Asian supermarkets too. Sometimes I eat ice cream at home, but not every day—because too much can make me sick, gain weight, or get pimples.
I even remember Barney singing a song about ice cream called “Icy Creamy Ice Cream” at his beach party, when Barney and his friends were eating cones. That is such a fun memory!
We often buy ice cream when we go out of town or travel overseas. It’s always nice to have a treat day on holidays.
Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed my ice cream story.
Love from,
Jacinda 
 
Hi, l'm Korey and I like heavy metal. I like Slipknot, Ice Nine Kills, Metallica, Slaughter to Prevail, Falling in Reverse. My favourite bands is Slipknot. I just like listening to metal mix.
I just went to Knotfest and I saw Pantera.
I also like Horror movies, and my favourite movie is Child's Play.
I love making animation in Blender too. Blender is an animation computer program that I have learnt. It is good for making movies, stop motion movies especially.
I love making Minecraft animations and would love to show everyone.
All these things keep me positive and happy, your friend, Korey.
 
Today is my 40th birthday and I'm feeling very happy because my friends are at Umbrella and have given me a party.
We have a birthday cake, lollies, donuts and chips. All my favourites.
We are having a party for lunch with party pies, sausage rolls, pizza, mini hotdogs, chips, but I'm most looking forward to tonight as I am going out for dumplings with my housemate and my support worker and my dad.
Today is a really positive day for me.
Ben 2
 
Today’s blog is a choose your own adventure and I will be talking about the Titanic.  
The Titanic was a large ship that set sail on April 10th 1912, and sadly sunk four days later. The Titanic scraped the side of an iceberg, but I am positive that if they didn’t reverse their engines once seeing the iceberg they would have missed it. As the boat was sinking all the water was rising from the bottom to the top over the bulkheads. The exact number of people who died on the actual ship is unknown as workers were trapped down the bottom. Some workers were venting the steam so it wouldn’t explode but that affected the people on the top of the ship as it was so loud people had to shout to hear each other, although I think that may have been the least of their worries. 
For people that ended up in the water my advice would be to find a table to sit on top of to try and keep your body out of the water for the best chance of survival. The head baker of the Titanic, Charles, drank two bottles of whiskey as the ship was sinking which is believed to have helped him survive as it kept him warm and calm as he treaded water for hours before he was rescued. 
This is Nick signing off, see you next week. 
 
Hello and welcome to our August choose your own adventure. Today we are talking positively about one of my favourite times of year. Its AFL and NRL finals time. I love this time of year as you can follow any game without having the result affect your mood (unless your team is in the finals). I love watching the intense battles between teams and analysing what teams do and why they do it. There are so many different scenarios and opportunities for teams to try new things and explore new tactics. Unlike the regular season the finals are so unpredictable and that’s what makes it so exciting. I find it intriguing about if a star player gets injured or suspended and how teams will cover those concerns. Meanwhile tonight (at the time of writing) there is the EJ Whitten Legends game where all of the old players get together to play a game for charity.  I love all the positivity and laughs that come with it. I also love playing wheelchair football as I get to be with my teammates which is always a positive. What makes you feel positive about yourself?
 
Another way to keep positive is to keep being awesome.
Ben1
 
Session Friday the 13th, meeting started at 9.30am. 
I’m hoping for a positive outcome today. 
I’m sat here with Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Charles Lee Ray also known as Chucky, Tiffany and Freddy Kruger and Leprechaun,  I think that’s his nickname. 
 
I’ll go to you Jason first, what made you murder those people? 
Jason gave me silence, which was normal for him but I thought I would give him a go.  
Freddy, how have you  been sleeping?  
Freddy replied with “what sleep, I’m always in other people’s dreams trying to scare them, I’m really not like this, I see the kids at school. I don’t want to see them in my dreams.  I know I’m a janitor at the school. I just want to be left alone".
I hope you get some sleep soon Freddy, just remember you need 7-8 hours of sleep a night. 
Information  before the next client - Charles Lee Ray or Chucky, depending on his mood. I think he might have a split personality disorder.  
From the looks of him today, chucky is out. And apparently he’s a murderous doll on a rampage. Tiffany is also his girlfriend who is here to support him. 
They started arguing about something, under their breaths. 
Chucky stood up and said “Tiff, babe, I’m not father material” 
Tiffany rolled her eyes and lit a cigarette, I interrupted and said “there’s no smoking in here, Tiffany” 
Tiffany got up and said “Barbie, eat your heart out” 
Chucky and Tiffany both held hands and walked out, Chucky in his spare hand drop down a knife, I think to myself they’re so bad for one another but good in a way too. 
Michael was next to speak, but today he just wanted to sit and listen to the others, that was okay. He spoke last time, he said that Halloween was his favourite holiday, but the problem was he was stalking his childhood baby sitter. 
Last but not least, Leprechaun. He’s very positive that someone stole his pot of gold and he wants revenge on the people. But frankly, I think he has anger problems but no one can argue with him otherwise, he’ll throw a four leaf clover at you. 
Times up for today session.
Will see you next week, same time, same day. 
Haley
 
Today I would like to talk about the positive effect music has on people. 
It does not matter what genre you like: the 60s, 70s, 80s or the 90s. Personally I like the 80s and 90s because I love the mullets and the clothes that they wore. Australia has music artists like Jimmy Barnes, Michael Hutchence, John Farnham and Silverchair, Savage Garden and Goanna and of course Southern Sons. This makes people happy and positive as it can bring nostalgia being a part of childhood memories. 
Ash
 
I’m fairly positive that today’s blog is a choose your own adventure journey..
Honestly I’m more than fairly positive that we are doing a choose your own adventure blog. As you might have guessed we were given the challenge to use the word positive in our blogs. I’m sure that our blogs will all be the absolute highlight of your day! Yes we toot our own horns here but in a positive and kind way of course!
Have you ever heard of toxic positivity? Toxic positivity is when someone’s negative emotions are not validated because of the belief that you must always be positive and have good vibes. For example you might be going through something that makes you feel sad and feeling sad is completely ok and should be validated. Now toxic positivity might come alone and say that you have to feel positive and keep smiling.
When I wrote letters to kind strangers, I tried very hard to avoid toxic positivity. As a volunteer of what was Letters of Hope (which has since shut down) I learnt that toxic positivity is something that isn’t helpful to someone who might need their thoughts and feelings validated. It’s about walking in that persons shoes and being empathetic by not dismissing their feelings but also letting them know you care.
It’s also important not to dismiss your own feelings that you feel, all feelings are valid and if you're worried about how you feel please know that there are many places that you can contact to talk to. I really went on a tangent with this one but it just seemed to fit with our challenge word.
If I were to sum all this up in one sentence I would say; You can be positive without dismissing or invalidating a persons or your own feelings.
Always your friend,
Shan.
 
I go to shop next Wednesday and I have to get new clothes for next month I can’t wait for next month but with my family oh lord. Anyway , I have fun and one more thing happy birthday to both Ben’s it is a positive day, Im going to miss you for one week.
TJ

 
 Hey readers, how are you? Today's topic is a choose your own adventure. 
My greatest wish would be travelling to Disneyland with four of my best friends who are my support workers and we would positively have an amazing time together. 
On this adventure we would be flying First class with Emirates and take in every minute of how the rich and famous lived. Once we arrive we will be picked up by a car and taken to our resort. We have plans to go on many rides. I have checked out different rides online. The best ones to go on are Toy Story, Midway Mania, which is an interactive 4-D theme park, and then go on Dumbo the flying elephant which is a flying carousel ride.
After many days of fun our last day will be meeting the most famous characters in the world Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto and of course the Princesses of Disneyland. 
Thank you for reading my blog. This is Bethany signing of until next week from my new email.
 
Dear readers, this week’s topic is a choose your own adventure. 
Let me start by telling you about my trip to Cairns which I’m looking forward to and positively excited to go on. This holiday will be fun because it is my first time going to Cairns. I missed out going last time when my parents went to Cairns as I went to visit my family up in Brisbane this year for my birthday. My parents give me two options I can either have party for my birthday or go to Cairns and I chose to go to Cairns for my birthday.  I’m very happy to go the airport and on the aeroplane on holiday soon.   
Written by Charlotte

My Perfect Special Occasion
 
Imagine this…You can arrange the perfect day for any occasion. Where will you be? What will you wear? Who will be there? What food will you and most importantly, what is the celebration for?

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Our blog topic is what would be our perfect celebration. 
My favourite thing to celebrate is my birthday, it's my favourite day of the year! My birthday is March 29th and I will be turning 42. I love spending my birthday with my family and getting lots of presents. For my birthday I want an ice cream cake which is also a smash cake with all my favourite lollies and chocolates inside.

I would love to be on holiday for my birthday in China, maybe even at Shanghai Disneyland. I would spend my day hugging my favourite princess's, going on rides, eating yummy food and seeing the fireworks. I would have a very special dinner with my big family and order dumplings for everyone to eat. I like pork, prawn, seafood and vegetable dumplings with chilli and soy sauce.

I love my birthday and I love dancing so I could also have a dance party and show everyone my new moves. I would perform a dance to a Shrek song which is my favourite movie. I would like if everyone danced with me and we had a big dance party.
See you next week, love princess Claire.


Halloween in America 
I’ve always loved Halloween/Horror.
I’ve always dreamt of going to America to celebrate Halloween.
Because their Halloween is in fall and to me that’s a vibe, the Americans go all out as well. They decorate their houses and even do ghost fun houses and corn mazes. 

I prefer to do something for Halloween than my birthday, that’s how much I love Halloween.
I even tried to celebrate Halloween a few years ago with a photoshoot, but it didn’t work out, but there’s always next time. 
I try and do thirty-one days of horror movies in October. I compile a list of movies I haven’t seen before, so it’s a win-win, new movies and new jump scares. I even tried 25 days of Christmas horror movies, wouldn’t believe how many horror movies are based around Christmas. 

Last year my friend and I went to a theme park called Luna Park for Halloween, it was so magical, seeing everyone dressed up. I was a broken doll, and my friend was the crooked neck lady from “The Haunting of Hill House”.

We went into the haunted maze and, boy, was it scary. A person was camouflaged into the wall and kept moving with us. When we were about to leave the area, he yelled “Boo”  they gave us a fright. One of the rooms had an autopsy table with a man being axed in half by a crazy lady with a chain saw. 

I also love researching the history of Halloween. 
One little fact about Halloween is that turnips were used for the Jack-o’-Lanterns which dates back to Celtic traditions in Ireland and Scotland where they were used to ward off evil spirits. 

So as you can see, I’m a Halloween/ horror girly.
Halloween isn’t for everyone, but I think everyone is entitled to a good scare once in their lifetime. 
Haley


There are many special occasions in the world such as birthdays, Halloween, Christmas, New Year, Easter, and Lunar New Year. 
My favourite special occasion is Christmas because it’s such a happy celebration. I especially love spending time with my family and my Umbrella Support friends—we have Christmas gatherings every year. I also love Christmas because I get presents. Wouldn’t it be great if Christmas season was every day? 

In my dream Christmas, I would get lots of presents with cute wrapping paper. When I open them, I would find things like: 100 Faber-Castell colour pencils, A new phone, a new tablet and earbuds. A Tsum Tsum Princess Jasmine plush, and a pastel colour cutlery set. I love collecting aesthetic cutlery sets!

Mum would play Michael Bublé Christmas songs (he’s my favourite Christmas singer), and I’d also enjoy listening to Hi-5 Christmas songs. 

There would be so much yummy food that Dad cooked: roast chicken, roast potatoes, nuggets, chips, and fried rice. I’d really enjoy it all, and then go for a walk because I’d be so full! Later, when I wasn’t full anymore, I’d eat dessert. Dad would make Oreo cake (he doesn’t cook desserts in real life, but in my story, he does for Christmas).

In my imagination, my house would be bigger and more modern than my current one. It would have pastel-coloured Christmas lights outside, so people walking past would gasp at how pretty they were. 

Inside, my house would even have elevators and stairs—so if I felt lazy, I could just take the elevator to my room! In my room, I’d have a TV so I could watch a Christmas movie. I would choose The Polar Express, a classic Christmas movie. 

Even my bedroom would feel festive. My bedsheets would have teddy bears wearing Santa hats, and my doona cover would have Winnie the Pooh holding a Christmas wreath. I would also receive a Hello Kitty Christmas card from a close school friend, and I’d send her one back too. 

Apart from Christmas, I also love Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. These days are important because my parents sacrifice so much for me. 

For Mother’s Day, I would give Mum some BTS (K-pop) gifts because she likes them. For Father’s Day, I’d give Dad a Geelong Cats dinner plate. (I don’t like footy, but my dad is a big supporter of Geelong Cats.) Both of my parents would love their presents. 

For Mother’s Day, we’d go eat fish and chips at San Remo, and for Father’s Day, we’d eat at Pizza Pizza in Lorne. If the weather was sunny, we’d sit outside together.
Thank you so much for reading this week’s blog. I hope you enjoyed my story about my favourite special occasions.
Love from, Jacinda 


I had a phone call from my sister because my birthday is coming up and we are planning on going away to Torquay. Dad is coming and my sister too. Maybe my nephew will come. I hope they give me a cake. I love birthdays. 
From Ben 2


Hey readers how are you? Today’s topic is your perfect day or occasion and I have chosen to write my blog about my Christmas dress story.

It was a few weeks before Christmas and I looked on Temu and I saw a beautiful Christmas dress. I showed my mum and she said she loved it. I asked her if I could buy it and she said yes I was so excited to be able to buy it. But oh boy it was a long wait for it to arrive. 


I didn’t even want to wait until it came because I wanted to wear it straight away.
Each day I checked my emails for news about my dress arriving. Finally I got an email to say it was coming. After what seemed like years but was only weeks it arrived and it was more beautiful  than I thought it was in the picture.

I wore it to Umbrella Christmas party and Dinner with friends. I loved it and everyone said how beautiful the dress was and how beautiful I looked. I felt so special.


Readers, I have a question for you do you have a perfect day or special occasion and how would you spend it. Please let us know in the comments below. Thank you for reading my blog this is bubbly Beth signing off until next week.


My celebration is coming up, I am seeing AC/DC in November at the MCG with my biological father. It will be a great opportunity to see them and then a week later I’ll be seeing Jimmy Barnes at Mount Duneed Estate in Geelong, with one of my friends who has organised our tickets for Jimmy Barnes. I’m so grateful that I’m going to meet the bands who are performing on that day. 

It will be a hot November day because it’s nearly coming up to summer that’s why it’s going to be hot and I’m sort of looking forward to it but the other half is telling me it may not be nice because I’m hoping that I don’t get a migraine on any of those days because I’ll be so upset if I got sick. It’s going to be a crazy experience. The highlight is seeing AC/DC at the MCG. 
This is Ash signing off keep on rocking.



The one thing I would celebrate if I had unlimited money and time and ideas, is to organise a New Years party at my place and have lots of friends to come to the party, four of my closest friends would come to celebrate New Year together. 


We would have lots of chatter and many laughs together and reminise the good times we have had in the last 12 months.


To celebrate this very special day/night we would build a very large firepit that would burn for 12 hours or more.

We would throw on lots of wood and a little touch of kerosene just to get it started whilst standing back a few metres for the flame to connect, and just for fun maybe put kerosene in water pistols to keep the fire going. 
We would play rap music and the volume would be the loudest you could play.

This would be a night to remember and the best part about having the party is that I'm with my friends and family.
Nick


Hello and welcome to this week’s blog. Today we are talking about special occasions. This blog comes at the perfect time as I have just celebrated a two-month milestone with a special someone who I love and cherish very much. Not only was it our anniversary but it was a milestone birthday. I had a great time at the basketball with my brother sitting in courtside seats. I love special occasions even before as it builds excitement and anticipation for the event. I love Christmas as I know the cricket is just around the corner. I also love New Years as those who know me know I like to party. I love going to parties and events to celebrate. I love listening to all the music and dancing (albeit very badly). 

What special occasions do you enjoy?

Keep being awesome - Ben1


How I would celebrate Halloween
My name is Korey and I as going to celebrate on Friday The 31st of October with many friends on Halloween day.

I am going to trick or treat and I'm also making the Jack-o'-Lantern.
I have watched many horror movies and my favourite movie is Child's Play.

My face would be painted to look like Michael Myers who is an actor in Halloween and my costume would be the hockey mask that Jason Voorhees wears in the movie and his creepy looking jacket with a machete in my hand.

I would go with my friends around the neighbourhood, and hopefully get lots of treats.
This is Korey signing off and wishing everyone a Happy Halloween.


Dear Readers, this week’s topic is about a special occasion. 
Let me start by telling you about last year’s red carpet event. It was on a Saturday and I got to go as a guest and I got to walk the red carpet and we all took photos and I’m so excited for this years red carpet event. Being a part of Hellow Media means I get to dress up, do my nails, do my hair and do my makeup.  I’m excited to walk the red carpet and take photos and watch all our hard work on screen.  

Written by Charlotte 

What’s your era?
 
The oxford dictionary defines the term era as:
 
: A period of time beginning with some special date or event.
 
Today our bloggers write about a time that is an important era in their lives.
 
I was born with a disability in 1999 and I’m also deaf. The doctor will fix my body like my hips and my hands to fix them. When I was little I got a bad brain and everything but now I’m happy and peaceful. I’m helpful and a nice guy but sometimes I’m cheeky. Anyway soon I’m going back to America. I’ll be happy to be there but it’s hot out there. I miss my grandpa and my friends who have passed away and one more thing about my old dog I miss her so much sooo I will be ok and have a fun time like a party Umbrella time from TJ
 
Today's blog is about choosing a different era to live in and what I would be doing.

If I could go back to another era l would go to the future in 2035. I would probably be doing the same things as I do now, being with my friends, learning new dance moves, watching Disney movies and going on lots of holidays. I hope in 10 years time a Disneyland would have opened in Melbourne and I could go there all the time! I think there will be new things that I like and new superhero's that I will love. I think there will be more games for me to play on my IPad, maybe even a newer version of an iPad. I would like to dress up as Wonder Woman, Captain America and I would have a big wardrobe of costumes. I think the future will be so much fun with my friends and family.
See you next week
Love Claire
 
 
I’ve chosen the 2000 era because it was such a good time, full of happy memories for me. There were so many popular, kid-friendly cartoons back then. 

Things were different in the year 2000—there were no smartphones. I remember watching movies and TV shows on DVD or free-to-air TV.

If I were living my day in 2000, I would start by watching cartoons to stop myself from feeling bored. I’d watch Playhouse Disney or Disney Channel. 

I’d also play with toys and do colouring in. My choice would be a Winnie the Pooh colouring book, because he’s one of my favourite classic Disney characters. I’d use my Faber-Castell 48 colour pencils to make it bright and colourful. 

Then, I’d go with my parents to a CD and DVD store, because there was no Spotify or Apple Music back then. I’d hope they had F4 CDs (the Taiwanese boyband). I’d feel anticipation—excited but a little anxious in case it sold out. Luckily, they would have plenty in stock, and I’d be over the moon once I got my CD. 

After that, I’d visit Toys “R” Us to buy toys like a Disney Princess castle, Barbie dolls, and Minnie Mouse or Winnie the Pooh plush toys. I’d feel that same anticipation again—excited but worried I might miss out—but luckily, the shelves would be full of what I wanted.

If it were winter, I’d wear my Strawberry Shortcake jumper and track-pants in baby pink. They would feel warm and cozy. Do you like that cartoon? I still do, even though it’s not so popular now. If it was a hot day, I’d wear my Lilo & Stitch t-shirt with shorts.


For breakfast, i’d eat Disney cereals—Hunny Bs, with a picture of Pooh on the box. I also want to try Sipahh straws (I never tried them in real life, but my cousin did). I’d choose choc-mint flavour because the packet is aqua, my favourite colour. 

For lunch, I’d have a Happy Meal from McDonald’s—nuggets, small fries, and a Coke—because the toys were so good in the 2000s. I’d get a Care Bears toy, which would be super cute.
For dinner, Dad would make me macaroni and cheese, because he’s a great cook.

Thanks for reading my story about the year 2000. I hope you enjoyed the trip down memory lane.
Love from, Jacinda
 
 
I was born at the start of the 90s, so my whole childhood was within the 90s. 
But I wish I was born in the 60s.
Why you ask? 
My parents were born in the 60s, I would love to relive their childhood and to see if all of the stories they told me were true and there was no social media, which would have been great and bad.  My mum even says today, the social media is the cause of the trouble, especially for bullying, because in the 60s, people could go home and relax without going online and being bullied by keyboard warriors.  Even if they were getting bullied, they could escape it for a bit. 
 
Also in the 60s they had good music too, like the Mama’s and Papa’s, Credence Clearwater.  The 60s also had some great tv shows, not like today. 
We sometimes even flick the TV on to I dream of Jeannie and Bewitched. 
Half of the jokes back then, I don’t think would be acceptable now. 
 
Both my parents would also say, they could leave the house in the morning and return when the street lights came on or for tea. To me that sounds like freedom.

But I guess each era would have the good and the bad, where the 60s all sounded great, but in school the teachers would use the ruler on the knuckles, so I’m glad I didn’t go to school back then. 

The Woodstock music festival looked like fun, I would loved to have been there. 
To be quite honest I think I have an old soul or a hippie soul, so I think I was born in the wrong era.  But sadly I was born in the 90s, at least I’m older than the internet. 
Haley. 
 
My name is Nick and I'm  stepping into a Time Machine which I built over the last twenty years.
My destination will be in the future and I am programming the Time Machine to 2099, which is 74 yrs from now. Whilst I'm in the time machine my age will stay the same as the day I entered this amazing machine.

When I arrive at my destination I will be surprised to see so many changes.
There could be flying cars with wings attached to the body work and no need for petrol as it would be all electric with powerful batteries under the bonnet. This battery would be capable of running for 10 days before  we have to recharge.

The biggest challenge would be creating a safe and effective vertical take-off. This amazing flying car could rise up to 20,000 feet, it would have controls in the car that are automatic and have senses all around the car. You would never have a car accident in the air. This is my dream for the future .
Signing off from my magical flying car, Nick.
 
Hello and welcome to new era in blogging. If I could go into any era, I would love to travel to the 80’s to listen to all the cool music and find out what life was like in that time. I would love to watch all the Hawthorn premierships and watch all the sport and see all the developments that has happened. I love comparing what life was like in the past compared to now. I wonder where politics would be? Would we have all the infighting that we have today? I would love to see the advancements in technology and wonder if people would truly believe where we are today. It also makes me wonder where we will be in fifty years time. I wonder how the next global crisis will be handled? Will we have hoverboards? What about Jetpack wheelchairs? Will there be world peace? What will the world look like? Will Taylor Swift have another Era’s tour in 20 year’s time? 
Keep being awesome and I’ll see you in the next life, ……oh I mean next week.
Ben1
 
Hey readers how are you today? Today’s topic is if you could go to another era what would it be and why?
I would go backwards to the year of Disco that is between 1970s to the early 1980s. The reason I want to go to the Disco era is because of the music and the clothes. 

To be in a disco with its loud music, strobe lights and mirrored disco balls hanging from the ceiling would be fabulous.  I would be wearing platform shoes and my very short floral dress. My friends would be wearing bell-bottom jeans with halter tops or a pantsuit or a miniskirt and of course platform shoes or long white boots. 

We would dance the night away, singing karaoke to our favourite songs such as Stayin Alive, I will survive and our absolute favourite is Dancing Queen. 

What an amazing time it would be to live in. Readers, have you lived in the disco era or know someone who did?

I have a question for you readers, if you could go back to any era what time would it be and why? Or, would it be forwards in time?
Please let us know in the comments 
This is bubbly Beth signing off!
 
In this week’s blog I was born in the summer of the 1880s. That’s the year of Ned Kelly and the Eureka stockade was happening and I was only 3 days older than Ned Kelly.  Both Ned’s family and my family where good friends and both of our parents were in the same prison cells and Ned asked me to be part of the Kelly Gang of course I said yes. I’ll be with Ned but they will sometimes be riding to Beechworth jail to get Ned out of the jail and help his brothers and sisters out with anything that they need. Sometimes I’ll be helping my family out as well and I’ll be riding to Albury to see Neds Aunty and Uncle as I got the news that Ned was sent to the old Melbourne jail to be hung. I told them not to hang Ned because he did not do it. I hope I could change history.
Such is Life, Ash.
 
Lets talk about Eras...
I want to start with a definition of Era, according to Oxford Languages on Google the definition of an Era; is a long and distinct period of history. Some examples of different Eras are; the Medieval Era, Victorian Era, Renaissance Era and The Cold War Era. Now our topic would be to talk about an Era or Eras that we might want to be in or are interested in. Maybe someone could make up a future era to write about that includes time travel and all the techie techie stuff.

When I heard the word Era, I immediately thought of Taylor Swift because of her Eras Tour. The Eras Tour was Taylor’s sixth concert tour that went from the seventeenth of March 2023 to the eighth of December 2024. This was a tour that celebrated and showcased the different eras of Taylor’s music. I believe that the tour started in America then continued onto other places in the world including Australia. Keeping in mind that the information I have might be off, I did my best to check reliable sources and I apologise if I have anything wrong.

Here are the different Taylor Swift Eras; Taylor Swift era, Fearless era, Speak Now era, Red era, 1989 era, Reputation era, Lover era, Folklore era, Evermore era, Midnights era and The tortured Poets Department era. Each one of you will notice (or not) is the name of her albums. Also it’s something special that Taylor can celebrate and share with her Swifties. The different Eras and the Eras tour gave Swifties (Taylor’s Fans) a chance to come together and share their love for Taylor and for their favorite eras of Taylors music.

​My favourite part of all of this is that each time there’s a tour bracelets are swapped, friendships are made and everyone gets to have a wonderful time just being their happy Swiftie selves. Maybe one day I’ll get a ticket and be able to see Taylor in concert.
BRING ON THE NEW ERA!
From your friend,
Shan
 
Dear readers, this week’s topic is an era of time   Let me start by telling you about an era of time that I would go to would be 2035. If I'm being honest I don’t know why I would go to 2035. It would be lots of fun. In my future there would be robotic cars, I would be much older and would be a professional chef and there would be jetpack wheelchairs too. As a professional chef, I would have my own restaurant and I would have all different dishes but my speciality would be Hungarian food. My restaurant would be in Garfield and it would be an inclusive workplace where I would hire people of all abilities.
What era do you think would be the best?
Written by Charlotte

Have you ever daydreamed about what it would be like to land your dream job? Whether it’s flying planes, being a famous performer, writing novels, or being a doctor, everyone has an idea of the “perfect” career. Today we will be reading about our participants dream jobs and why. Get ready to be inspired, surprised, and maybe even motivated to chase your own dream.


If I could have any job I would be a dance teacher because I love to dance. I would open up my own dance studio and call it "Claire's New Moves". I would teach ballroom dance including dances like the salsa and the waltz. The first concert I would put on would be called Shrek and there would be all songs from the Shrek story. At the concert everyone would get a trophy and also a special award. I would have students of all ages from three to one hundred and ten and everyone is welcome at my studio. I would have other dance teachers also teaching dance so there could be more classes for everyone. Everyone would call me Princess Claire at my studio and sometimes I might dress as a Princes too. 
Thank you, this is my dream job
Princess Claire


This week we are talking about our dream job. I have many dream jobs. My first dream job is to be a paramedic or working in a morgue to do a DNA analysis on the person. I would also like to work in a mental hospital. I’d love to work as a private investigator to spy on people who have been in criminal activity or on people who’s wives or husbands are having an affair without them knowing about what’s going on.  It would be cool to work on a body and do an autopsy on them, and see what the cause of death is. In a mental hospital I would help the patients out with their own mental health and make sure they feel safe when they get home and a paramedic would be seeing babies being born on the side of the road or helping someone who has a fall or had a seizure or a stroke or a heart attack.


Ash


I already have a regular job every Wednesday, and I think it’s really good to work and earn money—even though I have mild disabilities. I feel proud of what I’ve achieved.


If I could choose my dream job, I would love to work at a Disney Supermarket. I wish we had one here in Australia! I already have experience working in retail, so I think working at a Disney Supermarket would be so fun.


I would still do facing (that’s when you tidy up the products on the shelf to make them look neat), because that’s the job I can do best in a supermarket. Working at the cash register would be too overwhelming for me—I find handling money difficult.


My day would look a bit different because this supermarket would have all Disney-themed snacks! Imagine potato chips with Winnie the Pooh on the packet, or biscuits with Olaf on the box. That would be so exciting!


The uniform would be special too. Male workers would wear a red uniform with Mickey Mouse, and female workers would wear a pink uniform with Minnie Mouse. Of course, I’d wear the pink Minnie uniform because I’m a girl and Minnie is so cute.


I would work the same hours as I do at Woolworths—3 PM to 6 PM—and I’d work once a week, every Wednesday. That means I would have to resign from Woolworths and tell my manager that I got a better job at the Disney Supermarket. It’s better because everything is Disney-themed, and as you know, I love Disney so much. My Woolworths manager would miss me though—I’ve been working there for 8 years this November.


The first people I would tell about my new dream job are my nuclear family—my parents. If my brother, who lives overseas, video calls them, I’ll tell him too and say, “I got a better job at the Disney Supermarket!” I know they’ll all be proud of me.


After that, I’d send a text to my Nan in Indonesia and tell her the good news. Maybe I’ll text my Aunty too—or maybe Nan will forward the message to her!


On my first day at the Disney Supermarket, I’d be welcomed by my manager and co-workers. My manager (she’s a lady) would show me around the store and say, “Take your time and don’t rush.” Then she’d let me know which aisle I’ll be facing.


We had a Disney pop-up store back in June, but wouldn’t it be amazing to have a permanent Disney-themed supermarket?


Thanks so much for reading. I hope all the Disney fans out there loved my story!
Love, Jacinda




When I was in High school, I’ve always wanted to become a chef, so I did all of the cooking classes since year 7, all through year 12. I even did a cake and bake class.
I had a great teacher who would help me with a step ladder for me to reach the stove and bench. 
 I remember doing a project in food technology class where we had to pick a country and cook a three course meal for my family. 
I did Ireland, I can’t remember the entree but the main meal was a potato stew, which was delicious. 
My whole life was set on being a chef. 
In year ten or eleven, we did a test about suitable careers for you. 
I saw chef was not on my list of suitable careers so I was very discouraged about it, that shook my whole life up.


I graduated high school, with nothing to really look forward too. 
Took me a while to get the confidence to start handing out my resumes, but no luck.  
I even applied for a job that were advertising but, they would say we weren’t advertising, which lowered my confidence again. 
I felt stuck in a rut. After a while, 
I got a job at a plant nursery (wasn’t my ideal  job), but to my surprise I actually did like to be outside. Talking to the plants and weeding. I felt like I was heading somewhere, sadly I got let go from that job, but I got another job at another nursery, which was close to home.
I was there for a few months, sadly again I was let go because of a business shut down. 


I had a few weeks of being in a slump, I had an idea to start a business called “ability weeding” so I handed out flyers, hoping it would take off, but sadly it did not. Not even one customer, apart from my parent’s garden.  Which was totally fine. 


Then I ended up doing work experience at a restaurant also near my house, which was great, and after a few months of work experience, the restaurant had offered me a job, I gladly accepted it and I have been there ever since.


In saying all of this, you can still dream of things, but sometimes the universe has other things planned for you. I’m okay with that.
I’m grateful for my experience in high school to cook for all those years, and to experience new and exciting job opportunities. 
Also never let your dreams go, sometimes you have to take a different path to fullfil your dream no matter how long or short.
You have to do what makes you happy. 
Haley


Today’s blog topic is what is my dream job and why. If I could have any job I would open up an animal hotel. This hotel would be for pets and pets only! And would be for when someone is going on holiday and can’t bring their pet with them but want them to have their own little getaway. Each pet would get their very own room and have a dedicated staff member. The hotel would be like a resort and have activities for all different types of pets. The resort would have a chef who would make meals for the animals instead of just regular pet food. I would spend my day cuddling all the pets and playing with them. This would be my dream job because I love animals! I would call the hotel ‘Peaches Hotel’. 
Thanks for reading, see you next week 
Annie




My dream job would be to sell my “everyday people” merchandise at a market.  I would go to Box Hill market, and I would sell my jumpers, hats, t-shirts and my friend would sell her tie dye clothes at the market too. It will be fun and we would get ice cream at the end of the market day. 
Ben 2 


Hey readers how are you?  Today’s topic is what is your dream job. My dream job is having a business of my own or helping one of my closest friend’s who has a cookie business. My friend sometimes sells her cookies at markets, I got asked if I wanted to help her and I said yes please. 
I loved it so much that she inspired me to start my own business and if I could do this, this is what it would look like. 
I would have a table set up with a beautiful pink and white checkered table cloth. It would look very pretty and very tempting for people to buy my goodies. I would have my business name on t-shirts and aprons and my logo would be on the containers. At the end of the table would be a poster telling people about my business.
It would be a very long day and hopefully I would make lots of money and I could ask my friends if they would like to help me. 
This is Beth signing off until next week!


My dream job would be to work on a huge cruise ship bigger than any ship in the world and it would travel faster than any other which would give us more time to see many countries. 
On my cruise ship it would have five swimming pools one especially for the trampoline which would be attached to one pool and you could perform water bombs off the trampoline into the pool.
There would be 600 staff and I would be the Captain of the cruise ship ( Captain Nick ).This ship would cater for 3000 passengers also.
 My job would be overseeing staff and staying in the control room cruising the ship around the world.
Also being Captain I am able to go down to the engine rooms to make sure everything is working as it should be and everyone one is working safely.
This cruise ship would be my ideal job especially being able to go down to the engine room and looking at thousands of buttons and lights and even better knowing what all the switches are for.
Signing off now as there is a fire alarm sounding somewhere on the ship .... yikessssss....
Nick 


What would be my dream job?
I think many people talk about their dream jobs as a getting to know you type topic and it seems like an ice breaker of sorts. It’s come up a few times through life, first day of school, first day at a new group and many other first day getting to know you activities. I do remember that I once was asked what my dream job was for the end of year book in grade six. That was the only time it came up on the last day of something.
I have had both realistic dream job ideas and wildly imaginative dream jobs that include unicorns and all the magical mysteries from deep in my mind and heart. I think it would be really cool to do something creative with Disney behind the scenes just quietly creating Disney magic. Maybe write a short novel because that seems fun but I think I’d publish it under a different name so that I could avoid too much attention if it got wildly popular.
Honestly, I think anything creative would be wonderful. Somewhere I can create and bring joy to others without too much attention being brought on me. My introverted “self” dreams of a quietly creative setting that brings joy to others but also to myself. A job that’s also good for the soul and mind, with space to dream up new things to bring joy and create stories that inspire.
Not once did I have an answer like this in the getting to know you sessions because there wasn’t space or time for it. I never had time to really think about it. Maybe when you have the time you can sit down with your favourite beverage and ask yourself “What would my dream job be?” Maybe you will surprise yourself with what you come up with.
Thank you for joining us today,
Your friend,
Shan.


Dear readers, this week’s topic is what is your dream job?
Let me start by telling you about my dream job. It has always been to be a chef and I recently  achieved my dream of being a chef because I got a job where I get to work in the kitchen working with the chefs and I’m feeling so excited and anxious to start my new job next week.   But I am excited to learn how to make different dishes and dessert and to learn more cooking techniques. This will help me with future employment in providing me with more confidence and recipes to make. I will let you readers know how my first day goes next week. 
What's your dream job and why?
Written by Charlotte


My dream job is car racing to help my dad and that would be my work.  I would have a yummy lunch and my uniform would be black. I would save all my money for America holidays.
TJ


Hello readers. It’s time to tune into another blog. My dream jobs would be anything to do with sports media or media in general. I’ve always had an interest in media as I love looking at everything technical. It doesn’t matter if it’s the newspaper, tv, radio, social media just to name a few. I have had a few work experiences in sport and media which I would love to expand on my experience and career so I can explore my options. I love trying to figure out what’s going on behind the scenes when something goes wrong. I love coming to the media program as I have a leadership role where I can expand on my own skills so I can launch my own career. I have my own podcast so I feel like this is a great stepping stone for me. What does your career look like? How do you plan on achieving it?


Keep being your awesome selves and remember. Knowledge is power.
Ben1

Choose your own adventure – July 2025
 
Hello and welcome to our July edition of CHOOSE OUR OWN ADVENTURE! Today our bloggers have been given the challenge in their blogs to incorporate the words:
 
WHERE – A PLACE
 
WE’RE – WE ARE
 
WEAR – CLOTHES
 
Why is the English language so tricky?
 
 
Todays blog is choose your own adventure and I’m going to talk about my nana.
 
My nana’s name is Yvonne, where she lives is Cranbourne, which isn’t too far from me. My nanna used to be a midwife so she loves babies. She is extremely talented at knitting and her favourite thing to knit is baby clothes, she makes them for babies to wear. I love spending time with my nanna and doing things like going to the shops, having lunch and just hanging out. We’re going to go to the shops soon probably to fountain gate, that’s our favourite place to go. My nanna bought me the key chain for my phone which I love and is personalised , she is always thinking of me and getting me little presents. - This is Annie signing off, see you next week.
 
Today we are blogging on a nice, sunny day. I'm going to blog about my cruise in Queensland. I went on a cruise a few weeks ago with my family in Queensland, it was lots of fun! We ate lots of food! Some of the food we ate was pizza, dumplings, and drinks like Diet Coke and Diet Sprite, they are my favourites. On the cruise, we had Christmas in July, so I did lots of dancing and singing with my family. There were beautiful Christmas decorations, we had a Christmas lunch and dinner; it was delicious. I liked watching all the waves on the boat, it was really cool. On the cruise, I watched shows with dancing and singing; I enjoyed them.
 
On another trip, I went to Queensland, where we went to Sea World and Movie World. They are both favourites because I loved them both. In Sea World, I went on a big, scary ride! It was lots of fun. I saw dolphins; they were so cute; they were swimming in the water, jumping in and out of the water, and doing tricks, it was so cool. In Movie World, there are lots of movies and shows. Movie World has lots of scary movies and rides! I wore 3D glasses, and it was so good. I went on a ride at both Movie World and Sea World that got me wet!! I went down a big slide and it got me wet, and another one that sprayed me with water! I enjoyed my trips in Queensland.
 
I'm very excited because I got new shoes! I love them so much, so I wanted to tell you all! My shoes are blue and purple in colour; I'm wearing them today! I also got a new haircut in Queensland, I feel pretty with my new haircut. - See you next week, Claire.
 

Kumon is a maths tutoring program I did in the past. I want to share what it was like for me and where I used to go for it. I did Kumon at Metro Permata, which was near where I used to live, so it wasn’t far from my house. Most of the time, my housemaid walked me to Kumon on Tuesdays and Fridays. But if it was raining, my mum would drive me instead.
 
At Kumon, there was no strict rule about time—I didn’t have to be punctual. I could come anytime during opening hours. I usually went during the day, before lunchtime, and had lunch afterward. There was also no dress code, so I could wear anything I liked. I usually wore a t-shirt and shorts because Indonesia is very hot. I remember getting a lovely t-shirt from Kumon. It wasn’t compulsory to wear, but I liked it. The shirt was white with blue sleeves. It had a picture of the earth, with children standing underneath it, and it said “I Like Kumon” on top.
 
 
I bought a tote bag with my Kumon homework and a small pencil case that had a grey lead pencil and an eraser. When I arrived, I would write my name and the date on the worksheets and start working. After finishing the worksheets, I had to answer a math question by speaking with the Kumon teacher. If I did very well, the teacher would let me choose a sticker! Do you like stickers? I’m a big girl now, but I still love them.
 
There were lots of stickers to choose from—cartoon ones like Minnie Mouse, Tweety, Snoopy, and Pooh Bear. The teacher would cut them up and keep them in plastic containers for us to pick from.
 
Sometimes, I also got coupons from Kumon. I could use the coupons to get small prizes like stationery, toys, or lunch bags. I remember choosing a Pikachu pencil case once, and another time I picked a cute lunch bag that I used for school. I liked Kumon because there were cute stickers, no strict dress code, and no pressure to be on time like school.
 
But there were some things I didn’t like. Kumon didn’t have long holidays like school, and we always had homework. One time, the teacher made a joke and said “Sleep over here!”—she was just kidding, but I found it annoying. Kumon also got harder, so my mum decided it was better for me to stop in first grade.
 
Now you’ve learned a bit about what Kumon is like. Thanks so much for reading my blog. It means a lot to me. - Love from, - Jacinda
 
 

Choose your own adventure
One day, one of the Umbrella staff and I went out to a pizza shop where we were going to have lunch, and we had a Hawaiian pizza together. The Hawaiian Pizza was delicious.
Delia had chocolate ice-cream which is her favourite, And I had strawberry ice cream which is my favourite. I also went to 7/11 with Delia as well after dinner. I decided to wear my everyday people hoodie. We’re cool when we eat pizza!  Ben2
 
 
 
 
Where is a place I would go to? my own home and this will be beautiful small house and small town where I would build a small house and small stuff. We’re going to have good stuff and good food, wear good clothes, try buy nice clothes on my own and they will be joker shoes and this will be my joker and I will make sure I look good. I will be back to America soon but not sure what day. - Tyson 
 
 
 
Hi my name is Isabella, I’m 11 year old. I’m fascinated about Mermaids. My Grandma gave me one when I was 5 and  ever since then I’ve loved them and any chance I could, I would go into the water of any kind I spend hours in the water. 
 
A few years later, I went on holiday with my family, I couldn’t wait to get  to the lake,   
As soon as I could, I changed my clothes into my bathers and I walked down to the lake which was where most people spend their summer days with their families. 
 
For some reason there was no one there today, it was a bit gloomy in weather, but that didn’t stop me from going into the water. I swam for miles and miles, not noticing on where I was. I poked my head up from the water, looked around. I didn’t see anything familiar to me.
 
I saw an old looking cabin with a fire going out the front, I thought I would go up and ask who ever who was there where I was or how far away was  from my family cabin.
I pulled my hair to one side and rung out the lake water and tilted my head to let the water out.  I stretched my arms to get the heat from the fire. There seemed to be no one around, A few moments later a man in a wheel chair comes out the cabin door.  He’s shouted “Hey, who are you”  I turned around and said. “Isabella, do you need help down the path”
 
“No, I can manage, I will be right down”
He got to the fire, now the weather was gloomy but it was still warm out. The man was wearing a blanket on his lap. 
 
He tugged the blanket to make it cover his legs and hips. But I did see a glimpse of something sparkly and shiny,  We both had something in common. “Mermaids” we spoke about mermaids till the sun set and into the dark.  The amber ashes were flying away with the wind. The guy, said “I don’t think you should go back now, especially in the lake water” I replied “why?” He took a big deep breath and he threw off his blanket and he didn’t have legs, but a teally colour sparkly shiny mermaid  tail. 
 
I was gobsmacked! He was a real merman, I couldn’t believe it, I only thought it was folklore and fairytales. He said “it’s getting late, you can have my bed, it’s the first room to your right, past the lounge room” So I went into the cabin,  he stay out there. In the darkness, with a tin of bourbon in his hand. 
 
I woke up to a sound of splashing, I ran outside to see the empty wheel chair close to the edge of  the sandbank near the water, I quickly took off my clothes and went and couldn’t find him, 
 
I almost gave up. I saw a glowing aurora and a splash, I quickly swam over there, he was there swimming and talking to the fish
He looked at me and  swam to me, he lured me down, I mean so deep I couldn’t see the outskirts of the  sky anymore. I had an out of body experience, my life flashed before my eyes. 
 
He helped me up to the sand bank, I was in shock, no pain no nothing,  I tried to move my legs to pick myself up,  it couldn’t, I looked down  I  saw a purple/pink mermaid tail,  I asked him “am I a mermaid now?” He murmured “Yes, I’ve been watching you for years, every summer, I knew you were the one”
 
I was excited, worried, all of the emotions,  
I was a real mermaid. 
Few years later, we’re still mermaids, we had two kids, both humans until the  moment.  They can turn into mermaids, if they would like to. – Haley
 
 

Dear readers how are you? Today’s topic is choosing your own adventure, and I have chosen to write my blog about a holiday. I’m going on an adventure to Bali in Indonesia with my support workers Cindy, Bernie, and Delia for 2 wonderful fun weeks.
 
We will be flying Air Malaysia and flying first class. Once we arrive, we will get a taxi to a beautiful accommodation place called Double Six and will get upgraded to the Penthouse..
 
Our plan is to go to the Bali Zoo where there are many animals like Sumatran Tigers, Zebra's and Meerkats and ducks and elephants that you can ride on. On day two we are going to the Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary where we will have to wear long pants and long sleeve shirts to keep the bugs off us and take our jewellery off as the monkeys are well known for stealing jewellery and bags off you and anything shiny.
 
While we are there, we will visit the temples where you must be respectful, quiet, and dress appropriately to their customs. The next few days will be eating and sitting around the pool and hopefully having many massages and soaking in the spa and many facials. This is Bethany signing off and feeling very excited about this “adventure”.
 
 
Hello and welcome to another blog. Today we’re diving into another choose your own adventure. I had a great time at my brother’s buck’s party on Saturday and I got to wear one of my favourite shirts. I went go carting and then into the city for drinks. I really enjoy getting out and about and spending time with friends and family. I love to wear all kind of out there shirts and clothes. I have a pair of pink tie dye pants. Multiple tie dye shirts and even a tie dye pillowcase and doona cover. I also love surprises and I know I have a couple coming up for my birthday which I’m really excited for. Do you like surprises? Do you find it hard to plan what to wear because you don’t know where you are going?
 
Surprise.......that finishes my blog for the week but keep your eyes peeled for where my next blog will take us and keep being awesome. Ben1
 
 
Dear readers this week’s topic is choose your own adventure 
Let me start by  telling you about  a  made up story and it takes place in Paris where I go for a holiday and I wear nice casual outfits.  My friend Bethany and myself go to a cute little French cafe for brunch were we have crepes and croissants and Beth and myself drink delicious hot chocolate. I’m drinking some yummy cherry juice and after brunch we're going to explore Paris and we will go to Disney in Paris. Our holiday ended. We had so much fun that we didn’t want to go back home but we had to. We were treated to a luxurious first  class fight home and we felt like royalty. We decided to go back to Paris after having such an amazing holiday.
Where would you like to go on holiday?
Written by Charlotte
 
 
Today I would like to talk about my favourite movie called ‘No Escape’ starring Owen Wilson. It’s about an American engineer and his family company that specialises in water systems. Where he goes to an unnamed country although it was filmed in Thailand.

The character Owen is played by Jack Dwyer. First day there he goes to buy a paper and witness a riot between protesters and police. It is very violent escapes but is seen by the leader of the protesters and is followed.

The movie is an action packed, very violent and shows Jack and his family escaping from protesters by paddling the river. They are assisted by two men who are secret MI5 staff who are wearing normal clothes. It was a great movie it would be good as a VR game we are working on it. I would like to watch it again. I would love to be an actor in this movie. - Nick.
 
Today I’m choosing my own adventure to go to a different territory where the sun shine’s every day and every night. We’re my friends and I are having a great time together and I’ll be wearing shorts, singlets and thongs. I can’t wait to wear my summer clothes again. My friends and I will be drinking Great Northern beers, Bundaberg Rum and Jim Beam as well, I’ll be having a blast with my friends and enjoying where we’re staying. – Ash
 
It’s another choose your own adventure blog...
We have challenge words to add to our blogs this week and they are; where, as in where are you? We're, as in we are writing a blog and wear; as in what am I going to wear today? I really needed to get them out of the way first up because otherwise I’d forget.
 
These words can be a bit tricky and can trip up even the most seasoned writer. What are some words that constantly trip you up and make life a bit confusing when writing? I’d be really interested to read your answers in the comments.
 
I have a charm bracelet that has a huge amount of sentimental value as all the charms were gifts to me from important people in my life. It began with a bracelet with one charm from a best friend as a birthday gift and now I have 21 different charms that are small pieces of my heart. Obviously, I don't mean actual pieces of my heart, that seems a bit extreme and possibly bad for my health. There are rainbows, unicorns, a Pegasus, my Harry Potter house, a family tree, a butterfly, paw prints, a dog, a cat, a book that opens, multiple lion king charms, minnie mouse, the cheshire cat, Mrs. Pots with Chip, angel wings, my birth stone, Stitch and a sister charm.
 
Each of these charms were brought with love and have more than just monetary value to me, there’s a story to my bracelet and it makes me feel special to know so many people have contributed to its story. Some by my grandparents, my parents, best friends, my sister and one was chosen for me by my best friends' daughter. One day both my best friend's children will also choose charms to be represented on my bracelet so they too can feel special and have a physical reminder that they are a part of my story and I apart of theirs.
 
I could go on forever if I had the time and space but as with all good stories this one must come to an end. Do you have a special piece of jewellery that you love and cherish for more than its monetary value? Or maybe a childhood toy or anything that means the world to you? I also have a mouse door stop that was my great grandparents doorstop that I have loved since childhood but i will talk about him another time. Yes, that means you must keep coming back!
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Thank you for reading and for your endless commitment to our blogs. We appreciate you Your friend, Shan.

IF I FOUND A SET OF KEYS, WHAT WOULD THEY OPEN?
 
We found keys! Are they regular keys that look like our house and car keys OR are they magic keys that sparkling and covered in glitter?
 
Keep reading, these keys are about to open our entire imaginations!
 
​IF I FOUND A SET OF KEYS, WHAT WOULD THEY OPEN?
 
We found keys! Are they regular keys that look like our house and car keys OR are they magic keys that sparkling and covered in glitter?
 
Keep reading, these keys are about to open our entire imaginations!
 
Today’s blog is if I had a key to somewhere where would it open up to
If I had a magic set of keys the door would open to Disneyland in China because it's the happiest place on earth. I would go on rides, l'm not sure which ones yet... I'll have to wait until I'm there to see what ones I like. I would take photos with all my favourite characters like Mulan, Moana, Cinderella, Snow White, Belle, Elsa and so many more! There is a lot of yummy food at Disneyland and I would like to try new things and desserts like the ice cream in the shape of Mickey Mouse. I will wait until it's night time to watch the fireworks and light show, it will be so cool. Disney is my favourite so I would buy merchandise like jumpers, shirts, and Disney ears. Disneyland has shows running during the day and I would make sure I would go and watch all of them. I would take my family with me and we would have a fun day all together. I would use this key all the time to go to my favourite place.
See you next week, Claire.
 
If I found a set of key's and on those key's was a note attached saying "Finders Keepers", I would make a wish and it will come true.
My dream would be having V8's and the best racing cars ever made. I would build twenty car-pits where we would service the car tyres and make adjustments or repairs. I would employ twenty of the most professional drivers and have the best car track ever been built in the world.
The best thing about having this racing track is I could race and have my friends come and join me.
Nick
 
 
If I find a set of keys I would get a car and it would be an orange BMW car and still wait to save up money. I could then get a house with the keys, with an orange roof.  The house keys will also be orange.  Then I can wait to save up more money to build a house and make sure everything is good inside the house.  I can make it just a small house with a tv room and bedroom and kitchen. All the stuff, a shower and toilet too.
TJ
 
Hello and welcome to a key part of my week. If I could find a set of keys, I would use them to unlock any sporting or media event in the world. I would love to be able to access any radio station or sporting event in the world so I can unlock my full potential.

As readers would know I love my sport and media so this would be awesome. I would love to be a sports star by day and DJ by night. I’ve always had a passion for radio so being a DJ would be so cool. If people were to hire me as a DJ, I wouldn’t want to be paid in cash but be paid in alcohol. 

I would also use the keys to ensure that people had free use of any bottle shop in the world. I love this idea as a blog as it forces me to think as if I don’t have a disability. What would your keys unlock? How often would you use them? What would you do if your keys broke?
 
Keep being awesome and keep believing in yourself because your keys can unlock anything if you set your mind too. - Ben1
 
It was a summer night, I’m at the beach watching the sunset.
The sun booming down on the sea of water, everyone was packing up and heading home. I was the last person heading toward the car park, got my sandy sandals in my hands walking in the sand bare-foot. I took a step in the sand and dusk picked up and revealed a set of keys in the sand.  I picked them up, thinking I could catch the person who had dropped them at the car park. 
 
The car park was empty apart from my car, I gathered my thoughts on what to do with them, I kept them and took them home with me. I got home, patted Maggie and Banshee, placed my stuff on the ground and heard a cling dang. I looked down, the keys I found fell out of my bag,  I picked them up and placed them on the mantle above the fireplace. I went into the kitchen and made myself a tea, again I heard a cling dang.  I poked my head around the corner, the keys had fallen off the mantle, I went to go picked them up again and placed them up onto the mantle place again. Since it was summer the fireplace wasn’t on, but I saw a bit of glow coming from inside the fireplace. 
I ignored it, thinking it was my imagination. 
 
I went to bed that night, Maggie and Banshee didn’t come to bed, they were just sitting in front of the fireplace, which I found a bit odd. The following morning, I woke up, to the sight of Maggie and Banshee in front of the fireplace, still finding it rather odd, they only sat there in winter when the fire was blaring with warmth.
 
Midday has come and the cats were still acting particularly odd, so I had to investigate what their problem was.  I bent down to the fireplace and saw that glowing sight again, I placed my hand into the fireplace and my hand knocked some of the old ashy logs out of the way.  There was some sort of trap door with a keyhole. I touched the keyhole and as soon as I did that, the keys fell off the mantle place right next to me.  I thought to myself that was very odd, I picked up the keys and Banshee and Maggie both came running into the lounge room in front of the fireplace. I ponded “what if this key fits the lock”.

I started to unlock the lock door in the fireplace with the keys, I felt a tremble in my hands.  I saw an amber looking light behind the cracks of the door, the door itself cracked open. Banshee and Maggie barged right past me, and disappeared into the darkness, I had to follow them to get them back.
 
I walked for ages in the dark hollow hallway of some sort. It had candles lit in an arch window all the way down, the further I walk, the fire place trap door got smaller. I reached a door,  the cats were scratching and meowing at the door.  I turned the door knob, it was locked so I tried the second key to the door.  I heard the click of the door unlocking and the door crept open, I walked in and it was some sort of cat haven, Maggie and Banshee ran into the room.  I walked in behind them, and there was everything cat related.  anything that they could asked for, endless amount of toys,  they were in their happy place. 
 
 I sat there for ages watching them, Maggie rolling, I knew she was comfortable. Banshee sat with me for a while. Once he saw Maggie running and rolling around he took off.
I headed back home, I left the door open so Maggie and Banshee can get in and out whenever they wanted.  I sat down for dinner, and heard Banshee's bell come from the lounge room, he jumped onto the table and gave me a big head boop then took off back again to the cat haven.  – Haley
 
 
If I had a magic key to anywhere it would open a poodle mansion, which would be a mansion filled with poodles. I would open the door and cuddle and play with all the dogs. All the poodles already have names so I would try really hard to learn them all. I’d bring treats with me like ham and cheese to give to the dogs because I know they would love it! If the dogs needed, I would walk them around the gardens of the mansion. I would also take lots of photos of the dogs to show everyone once I got back home.  - This is Annie signing off.
 
The key that I find will open a 7/11 store. My very own. I would put in biscuits, lollies, drinks, snacks, more snacks, and chips.
I would have a lot of Slurpee’s and I would open it 24/7 and have chips too. Everything would be free especially for dogs. And all my favourite people. 
Ben C
 
What to do with random keys…
What if you were given a random set of keys, where would they lead you and what would they unlock? I used to imagine that I had imaginary random keys as a child and I would pretend that they opened the door to my cubby house. Just as well they were imaginary keys because the door to my cubby house was also imaginary. There was a cut out for an entry and I would pretend to unlock and open the imaginary door. It was like I was unlocking the door to a world of my own. It was wonderful that I had such a great imagination as a child.

As for today’s set of keys I think I’d like them to be keys to a secret garden where I can have my own quite piece of the world, with insects, animals and plants as companions. I have always loved the idea of a secret garden since I saw the movie The secret garden though I probably wouldn’t invite any friends to my garden as it would be my own place to go to unwind and just be. My ultimate dream to have a place all my own.

I have since read the book version of The secret garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and it’s up there as one of my favourites. I would have a garden library so that I could get some reading in and obviously I’d have The secret garden book in my secret garden library as well as many other titles. They would be able to be locked away to keep the books safe.

My secret garden would be a wonderful escape from a world that I don’t always understand and that doesn’t always understand me. I think everyone deserves a place to unwind, decompress and a place where all that’s expected of you is to just be you.
Thank you for reading my blog today beautiful friends,
Your friend always,
Shan.


If you had a set of keys it will open an abandoned mental asylum and I would not touch it for renovations because I do not want to disturb the spirits in there. I don’t want to be accused of painting the wrong colour so I would just leave it as the original colour.  I will make sure they’re at peace and make sure the ghost adventures do a tour in my mental asylum. 

I’ll be locking them up for 24 hours so they could explore the levels. I’m learning about this history to see if they catch anything on the video or on the EVP and when they get the evidence I’m willing for them to share their experiences on their social media including putting my mental asylum on the map so anyone can do a ghost tour of the asylum to pay their respects to the sprits. If they had their family members who would have been a patient or visiting their friends who were dying for yellow fever or tuberculosis Ash


Dear readers, this week’s topic is if you had keys to anywhere, where would it be. 
Let me start by telling you about if I had keys they would lead to heaven and when I got there, there would be big golden gates or that’s what I imagine in my head and I go straight to my dad and give him the biggest hug. While we are talking I would tell him how I love and miss him and about my life and why he is proud of me and also I would ask him for advice about life in general, and what life in heaven has been for him. 
Maybe he can show me where he has been living. 

I would hope these keys would give me a whole day with my dad.
What would you do if you had a random set of keys?
Written by Charlotte



Hi friends how are you? Today’s topic is if you had a random set of keys just handed to you what would it open and where would it lead you? I would open my own karaoke bar and it would be the biggest one in the world. To start with it would be in a huge warehouse that has two levels. The first level would be like a party room with multi coloured lights, disco balls and the biggest screen to read the words. The microphones would have diamonds on them and beautiful red carpet on the floor.

At the back of the room is a huge bar which serves every drink you could think of. Cocktails are our specialty and we would have all the latest soft drinks and coffee facilities as well as all different kinds of candy’s.

The top level will be called the “princess room” with beautiful furniture which would be covered in thick luscious rainbow faux fur. Above all the furniture there would be ten  chandeliers hanging from the ceiling sparkling in the distance.

My guest would be famous people from around the world and my beautiful friends and family and especially my support workers.

Signing off until next week as your karaoke princess Bethany


 
This week's blogging topic is one where I must use my imagination. The topic is if I have lots of keys what can I open with those keys. Firstly, if I have a key I want to use it to open the door of a shop that is in my imagination. The shop sells lots of cute merchandise, the shop is called "Lala". I already opened the door using my key and what I saw was a lot of cute stuffed animals such as: Disney, sanrio, different animals like zebra, monkey, sharks, fish too. Do you like stuffed animals ? 

Then there's a second door of Lala shop, I must use my key again or else I cannot see what's inside the other door. I opened the door and inside the second door there is more cute merchandise and the second door has stationary, lunchboxes, cute backpacks and cute cutlery too. It's such an amazing shop I love it already. I had a look at the cute stationary area and then I finished looking at the school supplies section.

There’s another door of Lala shop, I have to use my key again. When I opened it, it has gift stuff like: wrapping paper, gift bags, ribbon and greeting cards too. Isn't my shop cute ? Even though I had to use keys to open all the door for each section. 

Now I finished writing about Lala shop, I want to use my key for other thing. I want to use it to open a cupboard, the colour of the cupboard is light brown. Inside the cupboard it had lots of my favourite things. The first thing I saw has colouring books. There were mickey, zoo animals, underwater animals, unicorns, kids colouring books with various pictures. Then the second thing was my nostalgia stuff in there. I found my Barney DVD that I used to watched when I was a kid. It was a sing and dance Barney, outer space, round and round we go and you can be anything. Have you ever watch Barney?

I also found my childhood Disney nursery rhymes cassette. I had three Disney cassettes. It had a picture of Mickey ( volume 1), Pluto ( volume 2) and d
Donald  ( volume 3). Then the third is I found a pack of fabell castell pencils it had 100 colour pencils inside the pack. I can use heaps of different colours as you all know I enjoy colouring in. If only this cupboard was real, it would be cool if this is real. 

If you have keys what would you use it for ? Is it to open a shop or to open a cupboard with all your favourite things like me? 

Thanks for reading. I hope you all found my stories awesome. Love from: Jacinda (Miss Blogger)