Category: Writing

My first time in South Africa

I traveled to South Africa in September 2015. I arrived there 2 days before my wife’s birthday. We went to a place called Mustangs Spur on that Thursday afternoon my wife was turning 24 and my mother in law was there with us. The atmosphere was great I had met my brother in law for the first time in my life there, even though I heard great things about him. As we are conversing with each other and enjoying ourselves over the delicious food. The staff at Spurs surprised us with nice ice cream cake and even sang happy birthday to my wife it was such a pleasurable moment. One we would tell our children and grandchildren. It was my first time in South Africa and I did not know the locals were so friendly and caring as the South African saying goes “It takes a village to raise a child” so everybody was there for one another something I never experienced in my life here in Australia or anywhere else I traveled.

It was getting a bit late so we got a lift by my brother in law to the taxi stand and we caught a taxi into town, the taxi was full of people and so many people in Pretoria the nation’s capital. For those who do not know South Africa does not have daylight savings so by 6pm its already dark there and the people are all trying to get home by taxi’s.

When we got into town we stopped by a restaurant and had some traditional food boiled corn and mealy maize and the food was so delicious. We decide to go shopping so we bought some gifts and we were heading home. We walked to the taxi stand and caught the taxi for home, in the taxi there was a young guy who was trying sell as a battery charger for about $7Australian, the funny thing was  the guy exactly came to us when my wife’s phone was dying and we bought the battery charger but got ripped off because it only worked for 30 minutes.

We continued on our jolly way home did not let that hiccup spoil my wife’s day it was her birthday after all. We got home and sat down and cut the cake, laughed talked about our beautiful day and our experiences.

It was close to midnight so it was time to sleep. The next day we went to a theme park in Johannesburg called Gold reef city and it was so wonderful. The people there started taking photos of me and with me it was a beautiful spring day and the trees were blossoming. That was my experience in South Africa a great time and it all turn out great and a nice experience.

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My and my wife our photos taken by our mobile phones in South Africa.

“D” DIFFERENCE DRIVING SCHOOL

The “d” difference driving school was establish by Daniel Prostizenovski in 2014. It is a small but very successful business.  I have many years of hands-on experience and I love to teach students to become great drivers on the roads.

We have had many challenges as to helping the students pass their provisional license. The students come with zero or very little experience on the roads and with many bad habits passed on by their parents/guardians. Some students even have done a lot of driving, but not safe driving and what is expected of them.

Our driving school has very effective training methods designed to help the students become good and safe drivers. They are also designed to help the students pass first go around.

We take pride in what we do, we value, respect all our student regardless of their gender, race or color and we are always committed to giving 100% customer satisfaction, integrity and commitment.

We love to see our students pass and driver independently to wherever their desired place maybe, work, school and home.

We are committed in picking up our students from home, work and school and returning them there also dropping them of where they desire with their parents/guardian’s permission.

Reflection:

We are small business and were very affected last year during the corona pandemic and could not drive for a long period of time.

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Myself, my wife and all the members of our driving school.

INTERVIEW WITH DUNCAN ROBINSON

ABOUT THE AFFECT OF THE CORONA VIRUS

I conducted an interview with the Hope 1032 weekday morning radio presenter. The topic was the affect of the corona virus to our daily lives.

On the photo from left to right me, Sam Robertson and Duncan Robinson at a concert at C3 Oxford falls.

Daniel:  Hello Guys we have a Duncan Robinson here form Hope 1032, and we want to talk about the Corona Virus Pandemic.

Daniel: How has the Corona virus affected you, Duncan?

Duncan: Well man working conditions have changed drastically, I used to be in a studio all day long and now I actually work in a home studio and do all the connections over teams Microsoft. Teams we use that for video conferencing and then I work out of a home studio.

Daniel: That’s pretty cool so what else has changed and what else is different?

Duncan: Well, I think family life is really different man your obviously at home with the family full time, the kids are doing online learning, which means that you have to be online teacher at home, so often times you finish your day at work and then go in and do a few hours teaching with the kiddos, but the nice thing is things seem to slowdown, like at the end of the day we meet up in a Cal de sac and catch up with the neighbours, we go on bike rides. Like things are actually easier and there is less in our calendar. It’s just different man.

Daniel: That’s pretty cool at least now like you got more time with your family and you can work on your old projects, have you been working on anything?

Duncan: Mate apart from doing up my studio, no its really simple stuff like I got some gardening to do around the place and things like that but, most of the time we just hanging around with the kiddos and building leggo’s and I got a RC car, which I haven’t had one in like 35 years and I’ve been driving that with the kiddos which is a bit of fun.

Daniel: Oh, that’s cool, thank you very much Duncan and we have Duncan Robinson here from hope1032. Thank you for your time.

Reflection: It was good the see these guys for the first in my life even though I had listened to their breakfast for many years. It was a great night and a privilege they are awesome guys.

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My wife taking the photos of and me conducting the interview with Duncan Robinson.

THE JOURNEY TO THE UEFA EURO 2021

 FOOTBALL- THE LEAGUE OF THE NATIONS

The new second match Between Macedonia and Georgia will be played tonight in Skopje in the Arena of Todor Proeski at 20:45pm local time. In the football league of the nations in League C group 2. This match is a key to race of all the top position the group, but this is head to head race between to two nations for first place. In the play-off of the last season in the nations league, in Tbilisi on the 12^th of November for a place in the European championship next year.

I will find a good result, if we win, we will be first in the group. This is the 3^rd match in a row we have a had drawn, in match against Kosovo we need to ready both physically and mentally, we will also give everything from us to defeat Georgia. Said the captain of Macedonia Goran Pandev.

The coach of the Macedonian football nation, Igor Angelovski, In the grand -final between Kosovo (2-1) last Thursday told us that he will not mix and match but against Georgia he will use his best players. The match on Sunday against Estonia (3-3) after that draw Angelovski did match 8 changes to the beginning of match, for the main reason to have the best players rested. Before the match against Georgia, again, Angelovski has many personal problems which means the selection of players will again be changed, seven players with not be playing. Angelovski said he will have Ljupcho Doriev, Enur Totre, Darko Michevski and Tome Kitanovski.

The atmosphere is positive this observed match between Estonia, we know where we have made a mistake and we will try not to repeat it. We are going for the win with no difference to the players not playing. We are playing three matches in seven days and that at all is not easy. It is only left to play our best we can- said Angelovski.

After Macedonia playing against Georgia and winning on last Friday (0-1) and defeating Estonia (1-0) it has guaranteed them a place in the Euro 2021.

Macedonia has made history 1^st time ever to make in the Euro since joining the UEFA in 1994 and finagling qualifying.

In the capital city Skopje big celebrations and across this tiny south eastern European nation of two million people and the great diaspora.

References:

CNN NEW, BBC NEWS, ABC NEWS, SBS NEWS and FOX SPORT NEWS. MKTV, Dvenik, www.ffm.com.mk Photo from the Macedonian newspaper Macedonia Today.

BUSHFIRES AUSTRALIA

‘’Many wild animals are losing their lives and inhabitations, due to many hectares of bushlands destroyed by bushfires.

There were calls received from foreign aids to help with the bushfires. There were a couple of firefighters from the USA that lost their lives while fighting the bushfires.

The firefighters were working around the clock to stop the fires and volunteers were losing their lives. Some are seen as heroes to us Australian’s and the rest of world.

Authorities are bracing for a dangerous new phase in the bushfires tonight, with high temperatures and strong winds set to accelerate the already devastating fire conditions across the country.

There are fears that a number of still-raging blazes could merge to create “monster infernos” in Victoria and New South Wales.

Emergency warnings are in place in Victoria and New South Wales. With extreme temperatures and unpredictable winds arriving, coaling hundreds of fires that continue to burn across large parts of Australia’s east.

Thousands of firefighters have been called but, there are fears that major blazes burning could spread into untouched regions.

Meanwhile, there is a devastation that is emerging on Kangaroo Island in South Australia – half of which has been wiped out by an out-of-control blaze that has killed at least two people.

Earlier this afternoon the Prime Minister announced the deployment of 3000 defence force reservists to assist with the bushfire crisis. Adelaide is also setting sail from Sydney to assist with bushfire evacuations in southern New South Wales and also Victoria.

REFLECTION: The bushfire that started last November, was one of the worst fires ever to be recorded in Australian history.

It has affected my family and many fellow Australians. The most affected people were the ones who lost their loved ones and homes.

  I had a family friend whose house was burnt down to the ground in Wingello.

Where I live in south west Sydney, the air was filled with a lot of smoke that we even had to wear masks to breath.

There was a short supply of food and water in our rural areas. ‘’

References:

Nine news, 7 News, ABC News, Guardian SBS.

https://www.news.com.au/national/new-south-wales-victoria-and-south-australia-bushfires-crisis-day-of-hell-arrives/live-coverage/8461073cb45dfc0abd5d2048410b221f

CORONA VIRUS 2020 in Australia

The COVID 19 pandemic is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of the corona virus 2019. The first confirmed case in Australia was identified on 25 January 2020, in Victoria, when a man who had returned from Wuhan, China, tested positive for the virus.

Australian borders were closed to all non-residents on 20 March.Social distancing rules were imposed on 21 March, and state governments started to close ‘non-essential’ services. “Non-essential services” included social gathering venues such as pubs and clubs and restaurant’s but unlike many other countries did not include most business operations such as construction, manufacturing and many retail categories. The number of new cases initially grew greatly, then levelled out at about 350 per day around 22 March, and started falling at the beginning of April to under 20 cases per day by the end of the month.

A second wave of infections outbroke in Victoria during May and June, which was attributed to an outbreak at a Melbourne hotel used for quarantining international arrivals. The second wave was much more widespread and deadlier than the first; at its peak, the state had over 7,000 active cases. The wave ended with zero new cases being recorded on 26 October.

As of 21 November 2020, Australia has reported 27,807 cases, 25,338 recoveries, and 907 deaths, with Victoria accounting for nearly 75 percent of cases and 90 percent of fatalities. Compared to other Western countries, notably the United States and European countries, Australia’s handling has been praised for its effectiveness and fast-forward reactions.

REFLECTION:

The coronavirus has been a life changing and challenging situation for all Australia and the whole world.

As for me, the virus has affected my studies at Tafe where our classes were moved are online.

My Driving school business went on a standstill for three to four months.

Whenever me and my wife will go to Costco, we will not find toilet paper, eggs, Vinegar and Sugar.

We had to make dramatic changes to our lives by not been able to visit our friends which we will see often.

 Our Church was closed until end of May so our services went online.

References:

Nine news, 7 news, ABC, Guardian, SBS.