possoms

Hi are you allowed to put non perishable food in the shipping container?? want to bring a load of marmite

JayDeee

You can buy Marmite here, same jar as the Uk but it is called My Mate.

Do not whatever you do buy the other brands of Marmite cos they are crap

You can pretty much get everything here if you look for it.

Kala

Rooksie

are catholic schools classed as private schools??

ub40fan

Hi Kala

Could you tell me where so I can pass it on to an interested party.

Many thanks

Shirley

Quokka

Yes, I think they have their own website.

jimtrish

excellent

and also, some of us have 3 kids and could not possibly afford the reccie trip, why not just go for it and experience it, if you dont like it you can go somewhere else

Ialibu

Reccie trips are a recent development. Until the general populace got enough discretionary income; they migrated blind.

Sometimes it was a failure but mostly it was a roaring success. You see, even if the parents wanted everything they had back home in the new country, the children adapted and thrived. And that's what counts.

I can remember my grandmother who came out from Yorkshire in 1911 (or somewhere close to that) and occasionally grizzled but when us grandchildren asked if she would want to go back, she expressed surprise at the Q and was fairly vocal with her desire to stay in the place she had lived in for decades.

The only downside of all that was we were told stories of England and as children built up an image. Reality as was shown on TV when we got it in the mid 1960s was vastly different :-)

G'Day

My tip - expect to only start feeling at home and like you're finally here after two years. I am a very adaptable person, and everytime I go somewhere new I love it to bits, but have realised you only really acclimatise after about two years. Some take longer. But for two years expect to feel a bit lost, unsure, stressed out and not-quite-right Thereafter it only gets better.

JayDeee

I live in Geraldton (450k's north of Perth) and can get it here in a few of the smaller local supermarkets, I haven't seen it in our coles or woolies.

Dewsons do it who I think are a WA company so there are no doubt some in Perth. IGA/Supavalu also do it. It is about $4 for a small jar.
Kala

Rooksie

oh bugger - so its gonna hurt financially !!!

ABCDiamond

These are the figures for QLD Catholic schools

Fees in Catholic schools?
The Catholic Education Council of the Archdiocese sets minimum recommended fees and charges on an annual basis.
All BAC ’s charge the recommended fee.
Parishes and parish schools set the fee levels at a local level in their own schools.

In 2004, the recommended fee levels are:
Primary:
Preschool $680 per student
Primary $680 per student, $960 for two children, $1,170 per family of 3 or more students
Building fund contribution $340 per primary school family

Secondary:
Junior Secondary $1,440 per student
$2,400 per family (2 students or more)
Senior Secondary An additional fee of $108 is charged for each child in senior secondary
Compulsory building fund levy per family $440.

Cut and paste from here

Rooksie

Ahhh thats not nearly half as bad as i expected!!!! phew

and on an annual basis, not term - bonus!!

thanks.

ABCDiamond

Catholic Schools tend to be a bit cheaper, the Christian ones are from about $2,000 to $4,000 per year, whilst the Independent private schools start from about $5,000 per year

Rooksie

all seems lightyears away at the moment however!!

NKSK

I always think that people like your grandmother must have been fascinating to listen to. Contrasting Yorkshire - city or countryside - on a drizzly November day with Australia. I wonder how she fitted in - was she unusual (being a migrant) at that time? (or were the numbers similar to today?) Also just before WW1 and all the trauma that it entailed.

Has Australia kept aural histories of early 20th C. migrants?