Blogs from Traralgon, Victoria, Australia, Oceania

Traralgon is a town located in the east of the Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland region of Victoria. The first non-Indigenous visitors to the area of Traralgon included the party of Count Pawel Strzelecki on their journey from the Snowy Mountains in April 1840, after Strzelecki had named Australia's highest peak as Mount Kosciuszko. Charley Tarra, a Burra Burra man from the NSW town of Taralga, was the Indigenous guide for the party, which included Strzelecki, and it is thought that the city was named after Charley’s home town. In order to reach Melbourne, the party had to cross the heavily timbered mountain range, later named the Strzelecki Ranges. Part of the forest was named Tarra Valley, which was later merged into Tarra Bulga National Park. Bulga is the aboriginal name for mountain. It was to ... read more

Ms Monica Tuppa from the Msalato College accounts department has advised that the porridge fee payment from C Smart International was received on June 4, 2014 via Holy Trinity Anglican Church Hastings Victoria. The college has now set up a separate fund for the Nursery school with the NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE in Dodoma. A great big THANK YOU to Paul Lemaire (CEO) and Matthew Holani (Executive Director) of C Smart International for their continued support of the Nursery Porridge fee. The Updates from the Nursery School Currently, there are 40 children registered at the nursery this year but only 34 attending - 3 have left the school despite all efforts to convince the parents to bring them back and 3 have moved with their parents to areas outside of Dodoma. The Msalato College has advised ... read more

Twas the weekend before travel and all through the house, not even a mouse...... NOT!!!!! There is cleaning, packing, washing, folding, shopping and panicking happening around here as we move rapidly towards our new adventure. Greg is so excited about travelling business class and I am getting very excited about Europe before Christmas, all the lights, decorations etc that I remember from my childhood and of course the Christmas Markets. I have hand made about 50 Christmas cards so I can be ready to send out my cards on the 1st December... where ever I am... but as usual, when it is card sending time... I have lost the address book. Heaven help me. Tonight we carried on a tradition (a bit early I know) of getting the boys to decorate their own Christmas tree, and ... read more