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Hi and firstly welcome to my Personal Blog

My journey as an author plus my journey into education has certainly been a rocky experience over the years but here’s what I can remember in a nutshell.

Primary school was easy compared to high school because that’s where my ADHA & Dyslexia certainly didn’t help me academically on the reading and writing frontier of school life. English from the get-go was hard but only got progressively harder as I moved up through the year levels and I was that kid in the class that the teacher hated and always got into trouble. It was in year 8 that I was sent to the Farm School in Woori Yallock, where they helped us deal with school life and gave us the skills in dealing with class and schoolwork in general.

It wasn’t until year nine that things really started to improve when I started taking Food Tech, Woodwork, Textiles and Graphic Designs. These teachers with these classes are the heroes of my high school years that helped me find my passions which was working with my hands and didn’t require too much bookwork, and this is where I decided that my future lied and finishing high school was not on that list but becoming a Chef was where I was headed next.

After completing my qualification in commercial cookery, I started working in restaurants and hotels, and that’s where I met my wife, and after six years of been together and decided that I wanted to concentrate on getting more qualified, so I next to gone Certificate IV Commercial Cookery, and then after completing that I went on to do my Diploma of Hospitality Management. After many years of working in the hospitality industry it was close to 20s years at that stage I was now looking to find a better work life balance now that I had two kids.

But sadly 2018 was when my career ended after a horrific car accident that left me with injuries, which meant that I could no longer work as a chef anymore. After quite a few years of rehabilitation and many surgeries later, I finally decided that I wanted to go into teaching because it was my high school food technology teacher that first gave me the passion for cooking, and after teaching many apprenticeships over the years, I thought it was time to go to University and pursue a qualification that would enable me to become a high school teacher so that’s where we are now undertaking the biggest education experience I’ve ever done in my life.

And the biggest support I must say comes from my family because without them I wouldn’t be undertaking this journey into academic life so that I can eventually give myself and my family a better life.

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