Halloween Week - Murder Game

Hi guys, Halloween week is coming soon.

Halloween is an annual holiday observed on October 31st. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holiday All Saints' Day, but is today largely a secular celebration.
Common Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, ghost tours, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling ghost stories or other frightening tales, and watching horror films.(from wikipedia)

We are going to play a fun game for this special week with all IIA students. Here are the rules for our "Murder Game"

Remember!
The game must be played inside the school building (Don't kill your friends outside of school!)
The time is from 8:30am to 5pm
The game will start on Monday the 25th of October and finish on Friday the 29th.
The goal is to obtain more knives than the other students by the last day

Rules
- Each student will receive a knife with another student’s name on it.
- You must “kill” the student whose name is on your knife.
- To “kill” someone you must get that person alone and say, “you’re dead”. (If another student sees you, you cannot kill that person. If a teacher sees you kill someone, this is ok).
- If you successfully kill someone they must give you their knife. The name on their knife is your new target. They must also give you the knives of all the people they have killed.
- Keep the knife of your current target separate from the knives of the dead people.
- You must bring your knives with you every day in case you are killed.

At 12:30pm on Friday take all the knives you have won to the 7th floor

to find out who the winner is and for some activities and snacks.

Wait for it! If you survive, you will get a prize at the end  !!

[Teacher's Story] Life is journey...

When I left high school Australia was in the middle of a very bad economic situation and the only possibility of employment was as a teacher because my parents could not afford to pay my way through university. So, off to teacher’s college I went. I hated it but I managed to graduate and commenced teaching in primary schools , first in Brisbane and then in the far north at Normanton.

 I soon tired of Normanton so I resigned and sailed off to South Africa where I taught primary classes for a year before moving on to London where I taught for fifteen months.The British winter drove me back to South Africa where I stayed for almost three years before returning to Australia.

After five years I was thoroughly sick of teaching so I resigned and enrolled to study Environmental Science at Griffith University. After four years I moved on to Sydney University to study for a Graduate Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. The plan was to go to South-east Asia to teach Scientific English. It didn’t happen, did it?

Instead I taught prisoners in Sydney’s biggest prison for six months until once again winter weather drove me to the tropics of North Queensland where I taught Maths, Science and Agriculture or thirteen years.
I returned to Brisbane in 1996 and in 2001 I finally started at an ESL school and have been teaching ESL ever since. I joined the staff of IIA in March 2007 and have been teaching mostly IELTS ever since.

[Places to go in Brisbane] Maritime Museum

Tiffany’s and Elea’s Classes (Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate) went on an excursion to the Maritime Museum at South Bank. We got to see and hear about Australian Naval history.

Anyone for a shower?

First Gunner Juan said he felt like a kid again playing on the ship’s big guns.

The highlight of the tour was going on board the historic HMAS Diamantina. We got to see how and where the sailors lived both above and below deck. The ship was used during the war to hunt enemy submarines and later in 1959 as a Survey and Oceanographic Research vessel.

Leo the guide used to work as a Chief Stoker in the Australian Navy.

Here he shows the students the engine room.

I.I.A. Crew and Captain Leo

Leo was the tour guide and the students were impressed with his passion for the Navy, its ships and history. He had been in the Navy for many years and now he is retired. Leo has been working as a volunteer guide at the museum for over 20 years.

After their visit to the Maritime museum, the students said "It turned out way more interesting than I expected!!", " I was so impressed by Leo and his passion for his work", "I loved going around the ship. It was fun"... so a good day was had by all.