PARENT TALK

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PARENT TALK

• By Geoff Lorelle St Clair

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BEFORE LEAVING

• Initial contact overseas
• Federal member of parliament
• State member / town mayor
• Foreign Embassy

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GETTING ORGANISED

• Copy everything send by Hotmail good idea
• Folder to leave here
• Folder to take
• Business card folder
• Diary tough
• addresses phone numbers - email and postal
• Leave any documentation such as warranty in easy
  to find place

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COMMUNICATIONS

• Email
• MSN Messenger (Need Hotmail account)
• Letters
• Phone Cards
• Mobile phone and charger
• ICE

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FITTING IN

• Gifts for host parents
• Photographs from home
• Recipes from home

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CAMERA / MUSIC / POWER

• Digital camera memory sticks/cards
• MP3 player
• Power adaptor/board

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POSTAGE/PARCELS AUST. POST - Poland
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LUGGAGE
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MONEY

• Australian Credit Cards Debit cards
• Spare Card
• Bank account in new country
• Currency
• Travellers Cheques
• Banking

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SPECIAL OCCASIONS

• Easter, Birthday, Christmas
• We sent gifts, cards, etc.
• Food, small items..

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CLOTHES

• Nothing too good or valuable may not return
• Not too tight often put on weight

• Coats for cold climates buy over there
• Need layers in cold climates
• Australian clothes

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HOME SICKNESS

• Hardest in first couple of weeks and some say at
  4 months (Change of 1st host parent???)
• Could be hard at special times of year
  birthdays, holidays etc (possibly harder for
  parents in Oz than the YEP students!)
• Christmas OK would be home soon

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PROBLEMS

• Guitar
• Meningococcal vaccination for overseas(Most
  students have Type C at high school. There is
  also a multi-spectrum vaccination which lasts for
  12 months.)
• Stolen parcels (small ones)