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Our Aussie Year 12 kids have finished their High School life <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
and celebrate together on a Schoolies holiday.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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They can do no more but wait for their results <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
and their university place offers in January. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
They have the whole summer ahead of them.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
They are determined to party hard… <\/span><\/span>

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<\/span><\/span>Thirteen years at school, and your choice of university<\/span><\/span>
comes down to six subjects.<\/span><\/span>
For my son who studied the <\/span><\/span>
International Baccalaureate <\/span><\/span>this also included <\/span><\/div>\n
one extended essay of 3,000 words<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
one Theory of Knowledge paper.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
200 hours of Community, Action & Service<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
and <\/span>fourteen exams over a sixteen day period.<\/span>

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Melbourne University Open day 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
Our son is currently in Bryon Bay in Queensland<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
He has rented a house, with a swimming pool with nine of his friends<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
at a hugely inflated price.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>Schoolies, started on the Gold coast in the 1970’s <\/span>
when the single-sex private schools <\/span>
headed off to Queensland for a final party.<\/span><\/div>\n
When surveyed 93% of parents<\/a> said they were concerned <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
about schoolies, drugs and the mass drinking culture. <\/span><\/span>

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Daughter No One went to Fiji<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
A massive tropical cyclone hit her island<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Hotel management came round and boarded up all their windows<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
and they were told not to come out for three days<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Indeed, they drank the mini bar dry <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
but I swear I couldn\u2019t have organised it better if I tried.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Yes, there is a God!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Daughter No Two went to Bryon Bay<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
but she was only seventeen.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Some of them who were underage tried to gain access to the bars <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
but by Monday all the fake ID\u2019s had been confiscated<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
and the under agers had a reasonably dry week.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
I\u2019m a believer in divine support here too<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
and a massive well done to the Institutions, Red Frogs <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
and the police who work so hard to ensure everyone has a fun and <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
legal Schoolies experience.<\/span><\/span>

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Our son is eighteen <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
he heads off with two bottles of vodka in his suitcase.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
C\u2019mon Lord, I\u2019m waiting to see how you help me out with this one?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Linking with <\/span>Alphabe Thursday<\/a><\/span>
D is for Divine intervention required!<\/p>\n

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