Sydney Our last day in Sydney was gorgeous with sun and a breeze. A brief meeting with the chair of the Nature Conservancy was followed by a trek across the central business district to the offices of the teachers union of New South Wales. There in a long conference room we met for several …
Category: Personal Writings
Maroon Union
Sydney We woke to rain and an in-coming front, so we were drowned rats when we walked into the house that officed Immigrant Women’s Speak-out Association (IWSA) in the northwest suburbs. Jane Corpuz-Brock, another Filipino woman, interestingly, directed the program focusing on working to move women through the system to citizenship and …
Get Up and Go!
Sydney We looked at the glass both half-empty and half-full as we slogged around the unseasonable warm day in Sydney to our appointed rounds. First a train trip to the southwest suburb (incidentally neighborhoods here are called suburbs, so you never really know if you are in the city or out) of Bankston. …