Week 1 Questions

1. What were the reasons behind you coming to tafe?
The reasons behind myself coming to tafe and doing Tertiary Preparation Certificate are I would like to develop my skills in the in all areas and also gaining a official ATAR score allowing me entry into university. I had learning difficulties at school which made it very difficult to have done this before, there for I completed my HSC but was surprised how well I started picking up on areas I once struggled with. Now Ive completed the HSC I want to now move on to TPC and hopefully get into university and start a teaching degree as I know what its like having trouble with reading and writing and feeling low self worth because of these problems I'm hoping to help children instead of what happened to myself where teachers called me dumb and wrote me off as a too hard case leading to years of depression through school.

2. what is your ultimate dream job?
I could say I have a list of dream jobs some are more achievable in real life then others, the first dream job is soigneur which is a helper in cycling usually they help riders with packing items for racing in teams cars such as, water bottles, food and anything a professional rider may need for racing that day. The soigneur also helps with washing clothes and basically any other things the rider wants, usually the soigneur is married to a rider so a dream job would be to be Mark Cavendish soigneur and be married to him cause he is pretty dreamy.

My achievable dream job is to become a primary school teacher, this dream is fully achievable with a lot of hard work, the reasons to be a teacher are simple and the holidays are a perk of the job to. Becoming a teacher would be an amazing job as I would like the chance to help kids who have problems, unlike many of my own teachers who were some what horrible to me and didn't want to help, I now have a understanding how these kids feel. Being a teacher also provides a good wage and unlike many positions today not easily replaced by a computer, computers aid teachers not put them out of jobs

My dream job that will never happen but I would still love to dream about it is professional athlete such as a swimmer, cyclist or triathlete unfortunately only a few make it as far as to get paid for what they love and what they are good at. Being an athlete means giving up everything that is either fun or bad for you such as going out to night clubs,eating what ever you want and free time and relationships are hard to keep too. Being an athlete means training/racing in and cold such as cyclist may need to race in the wet such as cyclists in the le Tour de France go through days of cold and wet. This is a dream job to get paid for sport but I don't think ill ever be good enough to make a career of it.

3. In what aspects of your learning do you wish to improve over the coming weeks?
In the coming weeks I hope to develop my understanding of types of texts and the content of the text body. I would like to be able to read and understand how the writer puts together their work.
I also would like to develop my own writing skills in creative writing, essay writing and short answers.