It was a unanimous decision for this week’s blog that our talented writers agreed on a “Choose Your Own Adventure” Remember them? For those that are new readers this year, a choose your own adventure is just that! Our team love the freedom as we can “JUST WRITE” about anything they like! Oh the possibilities are endless…. Let’s GO!
 
How is everyone feeling today? If you’re not feeling yourself? Take a minute or two to take a deep breath and relax and start the day over with positivity feelings! 
Now that motivation is in our system, let’s get into today’s topic.

Let’s do something different with my topic, I’m going to talk about the many countries that I have been to in my life time so Let’s start off when I was very little and it’s my first time flying to a different country.

 At age 3 I went with my family and grandparents to Fiji and its surrounding islands, I have heard many stories how I was the star of the show with my blonde hair and blue eyes, everyone adored me but I was also a trouble maker, since I somehow had no fear of the water and was classed as a water baby I almost drowned in the big pool at the hotel, at least that’s what I’ve heard from my family members. I was always so calm while flying and really enjoyed the feeling, I still remember the old books about airplanes and traveling that family members gave me when I was young.

Age 9: Yaya surprised my family and I for Christmas with a big family trip around the north island of New Zealand, this trip took 3 weeks starting from boxing day in 2004 till mid-January, we went everywhere on the north island starting with Auckland for a few days of sightseeing, then moving to Rotorua where the volcanic sulfur smells really bad but had a lot of really awesome history and hot springs in the area as well as the rainforests and caves with glow worms that were among places we visited on this hilly trip. It was absolutely breathtaking, then we followed the road to the bay of islands on the tip of the north island and spent new years on a 12 hour bus trip around bay of island.

I think I got my travel bug from my Yaya which means grandma in Greek for information as she loves to explore and work on animal conservations around the world. 
I won't be able to write every trip but maybe next time for a choose your own adventure I’ll write a part 2 of my trips, how does that sound to everyone? - Holly
 
 
 
It’s another “choose your own adventure” week! My choice this week is the 
Australia Open Tennis, which is held in Melbourne each January.

The reason why I love watching tennis is I used to play competitive tennis and I loved every moment of it. I loved playing with my teammates. I’ve won many trophies and medals, and I always enjoyed making my opponent run as that is how you win points.

One of the rules is one player serves, and the other player tries to return the ball after it is served.  It can be a bit tricky, especially when a player does an ace. 

Some tennis players I love watching all year round, are Novak Djokovic, Alex deMinaur, Iga Swiatex, Coco Gauff, and Aryna Sabalenka. 

In tennis, you can even play in a wheelchair.  It would be a bit tricky but Dylan Alcott has played loads in his wheelchair.  He is amazing, and he’s a great disability advocate.

This week’s joke is related to tennis?
Why did the tennis player charge the net?
She ran out of cash.

Leave a comment if you love the jokes I would love to know. – Scarlett
 
 
 
It's a choose your own adventure kind of blog today.  
 
Hello Friends, 
 
Today I'm going to chat about kindness, but first a quote; 
“Be an example, show kindness to unkind people. Forgive people who don't deserve it. Love unconditionally. Your actions always reflect who you are.” - Unknown  
 
Obviously, I'm all about kindness. It takes less energy to be kind than it does to be unkind for me. I exist to bring kindness to this world; I will leave this world kinder than I when I joined it. Small acts of kindness can be all it takes to make someone's day better and brighter.  
 
Being kind doesn't take much, a simple smile, a note left on the bus, a handmade bookmark left in a library book, a consensual hug for a friend, an extra pen in case someone forgets theirs or even saying hello to someone can be enough.  
 
Each act of kindness makes this world a better place, even if someone is being unkind,  you can “kill them with kindness” as they say. You don’t know what they are going through in their lives, and they may really need a little kindness. You never know, it might change their day and they may pass on the kindness to someone else.  
 
Even if someone has done you wrong or made you mad it's better to forgive and move on than hold on to anger as it will do more damage to you than it would to the other person. Feel any or all emotions you need to but always remember to let go and forgive. Don’t let it eat at you and always lead with kindness to yourself and to others. If we all role model kindness and acts of kindness the next generation will also lead with kindness and the world will become a kinder and more empathetic place for all.  
 
And that is my unofficial ted talk.
 
You are all absolutely loved, I believe in you all and have a great day my friends.  - Shan  
 
 
 Hello my fans,
 
Today’s blog is to choose your own topic. I would like to share with you something that is close to my heart which is some updates about my dad’s health. For those who don’t know my dad was diagnosed with throat cancer last year.  It has been a bumpy road for him. Since June and my dad went through chemo treatment. It was not easy for him but he is a fighter and then last December we received the good news that he was cancer free which I was over the moon about, to know he is going to be out of woods.
 
His scans show no more cancer. He still can’t eat solid food due to swelling in his throat and still needs lots of sleep to recover.  He goes to the doctor and speech therapists often. Have you or a family member been though a similar journey?
 
 I would like to thank everyone for your support love from Jess. 
 
 
 
This week I am going to tell you all about my favourite foods and why they are my favourite. Tacos are from Mexico did you know that? The Mexican people love their tacos. 
 
My favourite food is tacos because you can choose your own topping and make it however you want. Another one of my favourite foods is ravioli because I think it’s one of the best pasta types you can eat and I have it a lot at home.
 
I also love cookies and cream ice cream and another favourite of mine has to be my dad's homemade pizzas, I do help him make them and I put the toppings on the pizzas which are ham, salami, and cheese but my Dad puts them in the oven because I don't know yet how to use an oven by myself. 
 
What are your favourite toppings on a pizza? Alannah
 
 
 
Last week was choose your own adventure and I chose a horror movie called Megan.
 
I will start by saying that if you like horror movies then my opinion is this is a good movie to watch but not for the faint hearted.
 
What I like and dislike about the movie Megan:-
 
Now, I normally don't like to watch any horror movies but Megan is such a good one.  What I dislike about the movie in my opinion, it's a rip off of Chucky but that's only my opinion. 
 
So now I will start by talking about the actual movie.  Megan came out in 2022. It tells the story of a little robot girl who was created by Aunt Gemma. She works at a company which uses technology to create robots and Gemma brings home Megan and shows her little niece.  Her name is Cady.
 
Megan is a prototype robot-girl who was programmed  to help Gemma look after Cady because Cady's parents died in a car accident at the start of movie. Cady and Megan are good friends however Megan is very protective of Cady and kills anyone who tries to hurt her.  You can watch it on Netflix.
 
Have you seen Megan or what is your favourite movie? – Charlotte
 
 
This is a creative story about Jacinta, that I have made up on my own.
 
Jacinta is a little girl who has been abducted by Alien life. Since she was a little girl, and into adult hood, it is still going on today.
 
She strongly believes this is happing to her, she see's things in her sleep and when she is awake. She will zone out all the time and loses track of her time. When she closes her eyes, she will see these Aliens faces that has been with her since she was a child.
 
Her alien experiences have been very friendly and they have always looked after her.  They treat her like their own they love and care for her.
 
Aliens always communicate with their mind, telepathically, with her and aliens have shown her their world and inside and outside of their spaceship.
  
A lot of times she would see their body movement walking around at home and when she goes out and about, they really love to play with her 5 dogs because the Aliens really strongly love dogs. The Aliens make her laugh because the Aliens are really funny and can be really mischievous and the Aliens are very protective of her.
 
Sometimes she feels like it is in her head, she was chatting to someone and said that she is really being abducted by Alien life. She felt a real strong sense of relief because now she strongly knows she was right all the time and it was not in her head.
 
Now she can live with that real strong sense of relief and she feels so much more calm in her feelings and emotions. Knowing this isn’t all in her head has given a lot more confidence to Jacinta’s understanding of what is happening, is actually happening to her.
 
I hope you have really enjoyed my story blog. - Gipsy
 
 
 
Hi friends, today I want to talk about my holiday that happened last week. 
I went to Daylesford with my mum and my little sister.  We left on Friday and spent the weekend there.
 
I had something to celebrate it was my 19th birthday on Saturday. 
I had a massage on my birthday and my trip away with my mum and sister was a surprise.
 
I am excited to have started blogging every week with my friends.
I have learnt how to write a blog getting to choose the topic and spend quality time with friends.
 
I am also learning that people have different experiences, and we learn at different paces and sometimes I need a bit more help but that is ok.
 
Remember it is okay to make mistakes that is how we learn and to never give up and always keep trying the more practice the better you will get you will get better - Beth

Oh hey there and welcome back to “Just Write” This year our talented bloggers are back (with a few new faces) to once again inspire you with their stories and ideas. Just like this very first blog. We spent our first session brain storming and coming up with so many ideas about what we would like to write about this year and as a group decided we would start the year with a refresher on who we are and what we love to do. We hope you enjoy our first blog for 2024…

Introducing our incredible 2024 team…
 
Hi I’m Tyson but they call me TJ and I like to play the game fortnite. I am level almost 200 and I like going out to have fun with some of my friends. Of course I love watching scary movies and scary games and ifly looks so good. Some people are scared to fly but it’s fun. My Christmas was fun. I loved it so much and got new laptop. – TJ
 
 
Hi I’m Alannah and this is my first time at blogging. Let me introduce myself.
- I like to play Fortnite I’m at level 31.
- I talk to my friends on a FaceTime call.
- I talk to my best friend every day .
- I like to go shopping and spend money.
- I play with my nephew when he stays over at mine.
- I play with my neighbours kids all the time .
- I went to Bali with my neighbours, my mum, dad and brother , we went for 2 weeks.
- I like to go on holidays with my family.
- I like to listen to music on my phone.
- I like to play on my Xbox. 
- I like to cook desserts with my mum.
- I like to help my mum and dad with cooking dinner.
In the future I would like to be a childcare worker, because I love to play with kids. – Alannah
 
 
Good morning or afternoon or evening to all of our readers today, hope you’ve had all a lovely Christmas and new year break, we are back at blogging for 2024 and we are starting it off with a choose your own adventure, so I’m going to talk about what happened during Christmas and new year’s break.

My boyfriend came down for the holidays to stay with me for 2 weeks and we did so many fun things together (apart from the hot weather during the night) For his Christmas present I got him an encounter experience at Melbourne Zoo with the otters, It has been a while since he’s been to the zoo and he absolutely enjoyed it, In return for my Christmas gift he gave me a bunch of our favourite YouTube otter merchandise KOTSUMET featuring Kotaro and Hana the otters. 

His family also gave me a 3D puzzle of a dolphin, acrylic purple necklace and rainbow paddle pop candle and humidifier flavour.

We also went to do the second part of an escape room that we started over 2 years ago called deep space in Uykio which was challenging but fun, I highly recommend this escape room as it tells more of an immersive story than escape logic.

We even went to the hot springs down in Peninsula with a work friend and his girlfriend for a relaxing retreat, it was so busy that we had to wait till 3pm to step into the warm hot springs full of mineral water but it was so worth the price to relax and chill. – Holly
 
Hello my name Jessica but I like to go by Jess. How would I describe myself? I’m bubbly, supportive, outgoing, and helpful. My hobbies are tenpin bowling, I am a pound bowler. I bowl for the Nationals competition for Victoria. My other interests are cooking, you can find me cooking anything delicious.  Also I have my own garden that I take care of and proudly have tomatoes growing from seeds, I can’t wait to try it in a few days. I am a proud aunty. Stay tuned for more adventures about myself and my fiancé Robert as well as my nieces and nephews. 
Thanks for reading my blog, love you, Bubbly Jess.
 
 
Hi I’m Bethany and this is my first time at blogging. My friends and family like to call me Beth. My hobbies are, singing, horse riding and I’m very good at making people laugh. I’m very interested in learning some new things such as sign language and I would like to learn about star signs. People who know me describe me as kind, helpful, friendly and my smile is contagious. I hope to write more and know more about emotions and how to make my emotions valid and how to deal with them. I hope you enjoyed meeting me. – Bethany
 
 
2024 has just started and I would like to welcome back our old and new readers.
For those that don't me let me introduce myself and especially for the people that don’t know me, my name is Charlotte.

My likes and dislikes: 
I like seeing my friends at Umbrella Support and hanging out with my other friends as well.

What I dislike is dishonest friends.

My hobbies are cooking and painting.

I’m looking forward to challenges because I like to challenge myself. One challenge for this year is looking after myself with more self care.
What is something you might be looking forward to this year? Charlotte
 
 

Hi, my name is Scarlett 

I love doing a lot of activities that make me happy. Some of my hobbies are radio and hanging with friends, I also love to cook with my thermomix, footy, tennis, media, and photography. What sort of hobbies do you have? Imagine if we have some similar interests, please feel free to leave a comment on the blogging page.

I can be heard on Disability Matters and I am on the Buzzz once a month at 6 pm on Thursday nights. I love to play with my giant dog Lucy who is a great dane she can be very cheeky, and loves to go to Bunnings. 
 
I’m getting excited and counting down the days to the Taylor Swift concert. I have made loads of bracelets with words about Taylor and her songs. I can’t wait to sing all the songs and party all night at her concert.  This year I'm celebrating 2 years of work with the Salvos I love working with the team each week.

I know how much you guys loved the blogs last year so this year I'm going to include a joke each week. This week's joke relates to my favourite singer Taylor Swift. Why Did Taylor Swift join the Basketball Team? Because she’s got a great record.

Have a great week see you next week Scarlett
 
 
Hi Friends!  
 
Welcome dear friends to blogging 2024, for our new readers or just a refresher for our seasoned blog readers, my name Shannon but I prefer to be called Shan, I’m still learning how to human, but I feel like that's the vibe for all of us. The basics about me are that I am 30, female and live in Australia. Sounds a bit like a dating profile, I better be clear that I'm not looking for anyone as I'm pretty happy being a single fish in my own pond.  
 
 I love to write and really love our blogging group Just Write. Words are very powerful, and one piece of writing could be used to make someone smile, help them keep going and maybe even change a life.  
 
I love all things Delta Goodrem and have done since I was 8 back in 2001. I’m a very big believer in being a kind human, always choose kindness and if you can’t say anything nice don't say anything at all. Rainbows are my favourite and I always get excited when I see one. They make me happy, and they are truly beautiful. I believe in and love unicorns. I respect everyone's opinion, but unicorns are real and that's just what I'm going with. Team Unicorn Always!  
 
 I love The Lion King, it's my all-time favourite movie and obviously this means I love Disney as well. My second favourite Disney movie is Lilo and Stitch. I really love that little blue alien so much. I love my Frank Green drink bottle and coffee cup. I think they are great.  
 
I’m a big collector of Lego sets, coins, books and fidgets. I love learning new things and fun fact I taught myself to sew scrunchies through YouTube and I also taught myself how to use a lawn mower through YouTube. So, I guess I also love YouTube. I watch a lot of “how to” videos on YouTube basically anything that will teach me something useful for me.  
 
I can’t finish this blog without talking about my beautiful American Staffie Chopper and my slightly moody but also beautiful Scaley Breasted Lorikeet Katut (she is also sometimes called Rachel). They are my animal loves, my four legged and two-legged family members and my entertainment.  

Until next time have a wonderful day friends  - Your friend Shan.  


Hi I am Gipsy, I have lots of interests such as singing, song writing, recording my own songs, script writing, dancing, modelling, acting, book writing, UFO alien research, podcasting, art craft and shopping.
 
My New Year resolutions for 2024 are working on my goals, ambitions and they are:
 
1 Budgeting saving money.
2 Working on my book and script.
3 Working on my singing and song writing.
4 Media.
5 UFO alien research.
5 Dancing, Modelling, Acting. 
6 Being more confident in the kitchen and with cooking.
7 Losing weight, eating healthier and looking after my health.
8 Being more patient. 
9 Being more positive. 
10 Believing in myself.
11 Working on my self-esteem and being the best person I can be. 
12 Being happy with myself. 
13 Podcasting.
14 Mental health anxiety strategies.
15 Learning new things and achieving new things.
16 Standing up for what believe in.
17 Working on meditation, concentrating on meditating more regularly every day. 
18 Reading my angel cards every day. 
19 Learning how to use my apple laptop better.
20 Concentrating on my spirituality. 
 
I hope you enjoy following my blogs throughout the year , I have lot to tell.
Take Care Gipsy