Happy New Year 2013

Yesterday, Moreton Island

Happy New Year - Bonne année à tous et à toutes

So what's been going on this year? 2012 has been a very busy year for us all... Josie's Year 11 endless assignments, sailing training in Manly on Sundays, Oscar's Futso and Soccer matches, Piano and Guitar lessons. Paul is lucky to be evolving his research area more and more towards what he really likes, that it IT, biology, design and environmental sciences. His latest projects took him to Groote Island, where he worked with an Aboriginal community on monitoring endangered species, such as quolls, and conducted some work on IT Communication Interface Design to suit the local community, with a team of friends and experts on the subject.

Beside my technical translation work for Red Hat, and other various corporate and community assignments, I completing my Graduate Diploma in International Studies this year, I have been lucky to finish the year doing what I have at heart as well: the beginning of a big dissertation on Freedom of speech and Diversity, drawing on English & French papers with a bilingual supervisor from the Dpt of Political Sciences.

So what is in store for 2013? Well, Josie will be her School Sailing Captain, Oscar will be finishing his last year of primary school (and now ... finally should be able to come back by bus by himself, important fact, you would not know !). This year, we will also be hoping that those we know who are stuck by disease will have their sufferings alleviated by the support they may see around them, and we will be dreaming of beautiful family adventures with our dearest friends, like the Indian epic trip in India earlier this year, for which we have all been saying : Encore !
Breaking news today: Paul bought a new deodorant called Anarchy, I think this sets up things nicely for next year :)