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Tasmanian Anglican

November 2004

 

Students eager to make a penfriend

 

 

During the time of the Martyrs' Day thanksgiving celebrations in early September I spent ten days as a guest at the Martyrs' Memorial Secondary School near Popondetta (about 40 km from the town, up the Kokoda Road).

While there I talked with so many people - other guests, staff and students, and visiting relatives - with questions about Australia, wanting to find out what life is like in other places, and students often asked, 'Please, can you find someone in Tasmania to write to me?'

The school is co-educational, with about equal numbers of male and female students (about 600 in all). All students are boarders, from many different villages with a great variety of languages, but at the school everyone speaks and writes English.

I have the names of six students eager to make a penfriend here: one 14 year-old boy in Grade 9, and five girls in Grades 9 and 10 (some are probably a bit older than in these grades here). Also a Mothers' Union member would like to write to one of the MU members in Tasmania'.

To make a new friend of a 'near neighbour' please contact Judy Goede phone 03 6243 7319