At Artemis - HELLO! WHO AM I?

Hello – I am an Australian Marsupial – a Ring Tailed Possum – my name is Sweetie and I am a sweetie too!
I like twirling my tail around tree branches (and noses). I am a rescued animal and I need a human mum because I don’t know how to look after myself or find my own food in the wild.
So I need to live in a cage. I sleep all day and come out in the evening.
Red Catherine has been my mum for 10 years now! She looks after me and every evening she gives me lots of yummy things to eat like fruit and fresh vegetables from her vegetable garden. She also gives me fresh branches of gum trees in my cage which I love.

RED CATHERINE AND HER LIFE ON ‘ARTEMIS’

It gives me a lot of pleasure to bring you stories about Red Catherine and her life on Artemis
She is a wonderful Romany woman with lots of stories to tell.
The name of Red Catherine’s property is ARTEMIS and it is 157 acres.

It is a lot of land for 1 woman to look after!!! And she looks after it so well!
Artemis is located in a remote area about one and a half hours from Adelaide, South Australia.
In Australia we call this Mallee Country. Mallee is land that doesn’t get much rain and the trees don’t grow very tall. It has the beauty of open spaces, wide skies, hot shimmering summers and star filled nights.

She gives all her time and money to rescuing animals – farm animals, wild animals, cats and dogs and birds. At the moment she is looking after about 80 animals.
Her mission is in creating a not for profit sanctuary for all creatures in need of rescuing or in need of a home

We have aslo put a lot of time & effort into re-vegetating parts of her land with native trees and bushes to provide local habitat for the wild birds and animals.
2 years ago we planted 1,500 trees but because of the drought only about 120 of them still live.
But better than none! This winter we will plant about 800 gum & wattle trees. Please let it rain!!!

CAN YOU HELP - GIVE IT A TRY HEY!

Would you like to volunteer as one of our blog translators?
It would be wonderful to have a list of OEK students who have a good understanding of English and would be happy to help with translating a part of this blog into Japanese!!!
It is not perfection we are looking for but interaction!
If parts of this blog can be translated then the stories will become accessible to our language centre's student’s parents!
This is a ‘win win’ situation as everyone’s English will improve.
In Shimizu there are not many opportunities where you need English. This newsletter can be an opportunity for you ~ the more you use and understand language the better or the more fluent you become.
If in translating a part of the newsletter or think you can assist others in understanding any parts of the newsletter, please contact me or Mark or Kotoe at info@oshaberieikaiwa.com

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This blog is being created so we can share our stories about our lives between Australia & Japan, with old & new teachers and with our wonderful students and friends in Japan.
We also hope our students and friends will have an active voice too.
We would like your questions/ photos/ or feedback. It is not just about correct grammar, it is about communication.
Hopefully it will be a fun thing for all of us from time to time to share in!!!