The Voice: Issue #2, April 2020

sowing the seeds | april 2020 | ISSUE NO. 2

Editor’s Voice ADJUSTING Needless to say, this has been a difficult time for everyone. My thoughts go out to those on the frontlines, those directly affected, and those whose hearts ache for others. Like it or not, we live through history.

The human mind does not handle change well, does it? Maybe it’s a part of our nature so that we learn to appreciate what we have before we gamble it all on nothing.

So we cling to the ground with all the might our toes can muster and get tossed like loose papers anyway because when change comes, it comes like a hurricane.

I’m no advocate for toxic positivity, and I won’t sit here and lecture about this all being for the best. It isn’t for the best.

Things have changed fast, and we weren’t ready, and now we have to figure out what we can do about it. I’ve had several people close to me need testing and be separated from their family until they were cleared, and one who has tested positive but is recovering well. Many others are worried about their livelihoods, out of work and uncertain how they can put everything back together.

And yet, hopelessness is pointless.

You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control how you respond to them, and for all the bad that is happening, we can learn from it.

Unexpected change can be tragic when it disrupts the system, but in doing so, it reveals the faults that were already there so that we resolve them. Perfection requires change to achieve, but it has to be a conscious choice.

As we transition into a new way of operating here at Avondale, I hope you bear in mind how much we’ve overcome, even if it has been hard. When it comes to moving through difficulty, we are machines, and I am proud of that.

With hope for the future, Chris

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photo competition

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MOTO: TONGA 2020

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STAFF INTERVIEW: JASON HINZE

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CAN’T EVEN RIGHT NOW

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10 TIPS FOR ISO EXERCISE

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contributors

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CONTACT INFORMATION

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PHOTO COMPETITION

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THE GOOD NEWS!

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MOTO: TONGA 2020

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STAFF INTERVIEW: JASON HINZE

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WO//MAN

CAITLIN KUNZ

SALLY-MAE HERFORD

TISH BRYAN

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CAN’T EVEN RIGHT NOW

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10 TIPS FOR ISO EXERCISE

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real talk

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#avondalexp

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cheat sheet

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CON TRIB UTORS

ASSISTANT EDITOR SALLY-MAE HERFORD

EDITOR CHRIS MCCLELLAND

Secondary Education student, untalented art enthusiast, ineffective procrastination combatant. Ask me about my mild addiction to video essays.

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Sally-Mae is a Secondary Education student who really just wants to be sleeping in and complaining about how she didn’t get enough sleep. As well as having seen every movie ever made, Sally-Mae loves looking out car windows pretending she’s in a music video.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER ASHLEY COTTER

Ashley is a Bachelor of Arts student studying Communication and Marketing. She runs off of coffee and avocado toast and can be found getting distracted mid-sentence.

TYLER HOBSON CAITLIN KUNZ

Hi, my name is Caitlin and I’m a third-year Education and Science student at Avondale with a passion for travel and mission work!

Hey, my name is Tyler Hobson, I am studying Teaching at Avondale. I love basketball and travel. One of my favourite quotes is if you’rE not living life on the edge you’re taking up too much room!

TISH BRYAN

I’m Tish. I drink coffee with Ash, have travelled with Caitlin, Sally and Tyler, and have played Dungeons and dragons with Chris. I love these people.

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Email: counsellingclinic@avondale.edu.au Our counsellors offer confidential counselling to students experiencing a range of academic, mental health and personal concerns.

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WIN A $20 GIFT CARD photo contest!

We’ve all been doing it pretty tough lately, but we want to reward perseverance. Show us how you’ve been making the most of your isolation by posting a picture on Instagram with the hashtag #AvondaleInIso, and we’ll give the two best a $20 gift card of their choice. Now is the time to show off your accomplishments!

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The Good News!

Welcome to our new section, where we sift through current events and find you some reasons to reassure you that things will be okay. Keeping a positive mindset, or at the very least a realistic one, is critical for keeping your head above water, and cynicism will do nothing but drag you down. So, let’s see some of the good things that have happened recently.

Hobbyists Make Clothes for Medical Workers in Need In response to a shortage of medical scrubs, a doctor named Louise Parry created a Facebook page called The Scrubs Co-op, where willing volunteers to donate their time and energy to sew scrubs for desperate medical workers. The page is now up to 3001 members (as of the 6th of April) and counting.

Underprivileged Brazilian City’s School Becomes Best in Nation Despite suffering severely from extreme poverty, the city of Sobral has become home to the highest performing school in Brazil, increasing literacy rates by 40% in five years.

The city mayor, Ivo Gomes, attributes this success to large-scale renovations and policy overhauls which saw more funding for learning resources, free meals for students, and advanced training for teachers. This system will continue to be expanded and replicated across the country.

Cancer Blood Test Innovation Allows Better Early-Detection Medical researchers in Boston are trialling a blood test that can detect fifty types of cancer using artificial intelligence. While still in early development, the test may allow for more accurate detection of cancers that may easily go unnoticed, allowing potentially life-saving intervention.

Sixty Million Trees Planted in Madagascar To commemorate sixty years of independence, Madagascar has orchestrated a massive tree-planting movement seeking to replant one million trees for every year since its secession from French colonisation. This endeavour seeks to rectify decades of deforestation which has devastated the island’s ecosystem, and promote sustainable ecological practices for the future.

Hope for Replenishing Ocean Life University of York scientists have outlined a possible plan for the conservation of marine life, reversing the degradation of biodiversity that has taken place over the past century.

This road map would allow the oceans to heal, to the benefit of the whole world.

Seven New Australian Spider Species Discovered You’d be forgiven for thinking this was bad news, but for one they always existed, and for two they’re peacock spiders, those cute, tiny things that zoologist Joseph Schubert describes as “little, colourful kittens.” The good news here is that despite already knowing so much about the world, nature still has undiscovered wonders for us to find.

If you happen to hear some good news or have some good news happen to you or someone close to you, we’d love to hear it! Get in touch with Chris McClelland on Facebook and we’ll be happy to share it with our readers in the next issue.

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tonga 2020 Towards the beginning of last month, 25 education students and their fearless leaders set off on the adventure of a lifetime.

After landing in the beautiful capital of Nuku’alofa, Tonga, we practicum students were introduced to our second ‘homes’ for the following three weeks – Beulah College, Beulah Primary School and Hilliard Memorial School. Over our 11-day placement we found ourselves teaching lessons in any and all subject areas, grades and classrooms. And while these were our least planned lessons, they were by far the most educational and entertaining! Eggs were thrown, tyres were rolled, and chemicals exploded – much to the delight of the students.

Seriously speaking, the skills we as a team learnt on this MOTO trip are skills that we would not have mastered in Australia for many years. I think I can speak for the team when I say we all feel exceptionally privileged to have been able to experience something so special and unique. It surely wasn’t just the school students who felt educated, invested in and loved on this trip. I have never in all my travels found such a generous, caring and optimistic community in all my life. Not only did we build our teaching repertoire, but we built incredible connections with the team, with the Tongan community, and most importantly, God.

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To those who may be wondering, ‘Could I handle a MOTO trip?’, ‘How would I afford it?’, ‘How does this fit into my degree?’, they’re not your questions to battle with – they’re His. One of my biggest beliefs about big decisions is that if God has bought you to it, He will bring you through it. He’ll make it work. I would encourage you to step out of your comfort zone – its where you’ll grow!

Often when I’ve asked God a question, I have sensed in His response not information but an invitation – to come, to obey, to step out, to walk – and then to get my answer.

And, in those instances, I didn’t just see more of where Jesus was, but who He is. At least for myself, this trip was a huge confirmation that mission teaching is in fact where I need to be. I want to remind you that God has given you a gift. It may be teaching, or it may not be, but regardless you have a gift. If you use this gift to benefit others, I promise you you’ll receive more than you could have ever imagined in return.

“God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.”

1 Peter 4:10

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As I sit here interviewing Dr Jason Hinze about his recent MOTO trip to Tonga, I can’t help but feel an overwhelming wave of bittersweet nostalgia. At the beginning of February, a large group of 25 second going-on-third year teaching students, both secondary and primary, travelled to the Kingdom of Tonga for what they thought would be another mission trip with the added bonus of ticking off one of their teaching practicums. However, what awaited them in the bamboo-clad islands was so much more than another service trip.

Between the span of three weeks, the students that attended would end up creating life-long bonds and memories that wouldn’t be easily forgotten.

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What is MOTO? Ministry of Teaching Overseas. It took us a little while, but the name came up while riding on the back of a tuk-tuk at one of the first MOTO trips. Where did you take your students this year? Tongatapu, the main island in the Kingdom of Tonga. What made you pick Tonga? None of the past places we went (India, Nepal, Cambodia) were in our own division, and we were keen to also go to the islands. I had also heard about how the people were so friendly.

What was the biggest difference that you noticed between Tongan and Australian education? There are more similarities that stand out.

One is the relationship the teachers have with God. They’re very centred around serving God in everything they do. Even in Hilliard Memorial (a small primary school where a few of the student teachers taught) most of the staff gave up big salaries from government schools to teach at the small Seventh-Day Adventist School. They have a massive heart for service, and it is a reminder that teaching is a service which is, unfortunately, different from a lot of today’s teachers.

What did you do differently from your past MOTO trips? So the main school that we taught at, Beulah College, we also ended up staying at for most of the trip. They allowed us to sleep in their boy’s dormitory and use their home economics room as our kitchen. This enabled us to really be immersed in their culture and meant that we could be involved in more than just teaching their classes. For example, we were able to run some of their night worships, hang out with the boarding students outside of school times and get to know them and their culture so much more.

Did it work? Why or why not? Because the whole team was in one big building, it helped us bond and become much more cohesive. At the end of a long day, we were able to all be in the same space to prepare and bounce teaching ideas off each other. Also, because this year’s team was so big, we were able to divide the whole team into three groups and send them out to the surrounding SDA schools, Beulah College, Beulah Primary and Hilliard Memorial. This gave those three small groups even more opportunity to bond with one another. Making them rub shoulders with each other, I believe, made them see things they once took for granted. We also chose a country with a high level of English compared to previous trips. It worked because the students were able to work more-so alongside their supervising teachers (the Tongan teachers) which ended up building some amazing relationships, that was very powerful to see. What would you do differently next time? I would definitely go back.

I want to go there a few more times. The food: because of the Tongan’s generosity, we were given way too much food that we couldn’t all eat. Next time I would maybe limit the meals prepared and bought by the locals to save money. I would also take way more sunscreen because everyone got a decent sunburn.

Did the teaching students surprise you? They did! The local teachers in Tonga, from all three schools, were really surprised with the effort that the student teachers put into their lessons each and every day. The effort was amazing, they used a great variety of teaching strategies and got involved with the students through using hands-on approaches for lessons instead of talking at the students. Some student teachers taught up to 50 lessons when their practicum folders only require them to teach 12. It was clear that they served with love and patience and then brought those practices home and are utilising them here. It makes me emotional thinking of the passion and the willingness the student teachers had to serve the community—also, the lack of negativity that was seen on the trip. I could count on my hands the number of times I heard negativity from anyone. The quality of each of the student teachers gave me an abundance of hope for the future. I realised that these people had the capacity to go home and be leaders in their own communities. If they can go into their communities with that same passion and willingness, only great things could come of it. What was the most powerful moment, for you as a lecturer, on the trip? There was one point towards the end when the student teachers were saying goodbye to the Tongan teachers where I was physically unable to speak because I was so enamoured by the love that the Tongan people had shown us. As Christians, we have God’s love that we know we must show for others, but the love that these people so willingly gave to us day-after-day was so much more than that. It truly didn’t make sense to us as westerners, because it was a love that we weren’t used to. It was indescribable.

What impact do you think the trip had on the teaching students? The main takeaway, I think, was the desire and willingness to use the gifts God gave them to serve others, and that only comes when you realise it’s the only fulfilling way to live your life. What impact did it have on you, as a lecturer? I was definitely impacted by the humbleness of the whole trip. It reminded me of the value of my purpose, which is preparing quality teachers for service. The other thing, which isn’t so much an academic answer, is that lecturers are only powerful to the relationship that they have with their students’ teachers. I know my student teachers so much more and now I feel like I can teach them so much more. What do you think the future connection between Tonga and Australia looks like? I think the reason I’m so passionate about the whole trip is that the people embraced our student teachers and humbly opened their classrooms to them so that they were given so much opportunity to not only teach but learn. Also, the relationship that Avondale already has with the islands is so meaningful. The women’s on-campus dormitory, Ella Boyd, was named after the first overseas missionary in Tonga. This small historical fact spoke connection into our trip and gave us meaning and direction for what we wanted to achieve in Tonga. This trip also made me so much aware of the islander students that I and my student teachers will go on to teach and how now these students will have a special place in all of our hearts and hopefully, this means we can teach them better.

Lastly, did anyone get the coronavirus? Not that I know of. Jesse Fua might have.

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WO/ Who’s a movie/tv character that you are most like?

Probably Phoebe off FRIENDS with a hint of Monica’s OCD.

If you had to be an inanimate object for a week, what object would you choose to be?

A mirror so I could see all the weird faces people pull whilst looking at themselves... or an oven because it’ll be like a little sauna.

You’re about to get into a fight, what song comes on as your soundtrack?

Icon by Jaden Smith or “Let’s get down to business...” - Mulan

casey herman

What are you studying here at college?

Secondary Teaching (Double major in Geography and Religion and a minor in PDHPE).

If you could make a rule for a day and everyone had to follow it, what would it be?

Everybody must stop whatever they are doing and go to the beach, bring food to eat and just hangout and have a massive jam sesh.

What’s something silly that you’ve done that you regretted in hindsight?

Jumped off a sewage tank at a Christmas party when I was ten just for fun (I broke my radius and spent the summer in a nonwaterproof cast).

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What secret conspiracy would you start?

Dinosaurs never existed and palaeontologists are the ones who just hide the bones.

What would you choose as your talking animal sidekick if you were in a movie?

A sloth or Galapagos tortoise so I have a good reason as to why I’m late to everything.

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If you could make a rule for a day and everyone had to follow it, what would it be?

To have all the Avondale lectures make a tik tok video to the song ‘Roxanne’

What’s something silly that you’ve done that you regretted in hindsight?

I left my Prac folder to the night before and let Jesse Fua drink 5 Red Bulls.

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What are you studying here at college?

dylan southon

Who’s a movie/tv character that you are most like?

Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh because he is Pooh’s everglum, sarcastic and pessimistic donkey friend or the Dean from Community.

If you had to be an inanimate object for a week, what object would you choose to be?

A plane because I am lucky to travel or a guitar because I get played hard.

You’re about to get into a fight, what song comes on as your soundtrack?

‘Be Alright’ by Dean Lewis or ‘Oprah Bank Account’ by Lil Yachty & DaBaby feat. Drake.

What secret conspiracy would you start?

Harold Holt is my dad. He just went for a short swim.

What would you choose as your talking animal sidekick if you were in a movie?

A lil’ fox

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can’t even right now.

Today, I went for a run and talked to an ex-Rugby League player who now works for the local council.

Writing about where we want to go and what we want to do with our lives is not an easy thing in our current world. I have thought about those questions so much during my life, and the answer has been different each stage I’ve gone through. When I was young, I wanted to be a pilot and fly everywhere. As a teenager, I wanted to be a spy and discover international secrets and help save the world. When I started having more realistic thoughts about where and what I would like to go and do, I thought about what effect I could have on my local and far-reaching world. Through this, I chose to study a humanitarian career, and see what projects (national and international) I could get involved with to see a good change in my world.

In these current times, where I want to go and what I want to do is being put on hold. My mission in life so far has been to surround

myself with my community, find out what I can do and do it. Now I’m helping my community by staying away. It feels backwards to me and I struggle with it, but I am optimistic that we will learn other ways to make change and contribute through different methods and avenues. Imagine being able to talk to more people, be taken more seriously, be in people’s personal space more easily just by being forced to use FaceTime to reach out!

After some small talk with the ex-Rugby player, he asked me what religion I have and how it’s impacted my life. How awesome! I have no idea if he would have spoken to me without the restrictions being put on us socially, and for that, I was grateful. I have no idea whether what I said to him would have had any lasting impact, but that isn’t the point: I was given the chance to sow a seed. Maybe it

won’t do anything, and that isn’t for me to know. I do know that I wouldn’t have been out for a run if exercising wasn’t one of the only reasons I am allowed to leave my home. I am grateful that I was able to see an example straight-up of God using different life parameters to effect good change.

It doesn’t always matter if I have the intention to make change, I can let God still use me to spread good if I am open to it, and that only gives me joy and excitement.

When I am stuck inside tomorrow, I will be thinking about where I can run to next, and see what new random conversation I can have (using safe social distancing) with another random local. If God has the intention, there will be seeds to sow, and if I stay open, hopefully I will get to be a part of sowing more of them.

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10 tips

FOR ISO EXERCISE Hey Guys, I hope everyone is surviving in isolation! As we look into the unknown, it can be quite daunting to think about coping with our college assessment load, being forced to stay inside and not being able to catch up with friends. As a result, I have come up with ten tips and tricks for iso-related exercise that I have found useful. I am by no means an expert, but they have worked for me so far!

1.be easy Get a routine: When you are stuck at home and have no reason to leave the house, it can to sleep in, stay in your pj’s and laze around the house until it is time to go bed. While this

can be good for a day, it can really affect your motivation levels and ability to accomplish tasks such as assignments and exercise. What I have found helpful is setting an alarm and having a type of exercise that will get me out of the house to begin the day. When you get back, you are refreshed and ready to get the day underway.

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Find an accountability partner and connect: What I have also found to be effective is having an accountability partner to connect with and accomplish goals for the day. By

having someone checking in or setting a time to meet either online or in-person to do some exercise aids in motivation and enjoyment in the activity. If you can’t convince someone to join your crazy workout plan, have a look at apps such as Strava and join the virtual community.

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Find a good work plan online: Find a fitness page that works for you! The beauty of isolation is that everyone is inside, and as a result there a now heaps of simple work out plans online needing minimal equipment, or none at all. Find one that works for your situation and have a go, and if it doesn’t work there are plenty more to choose from.

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Escape outside: One of the best exercise tips I have come across is escaping outside. Whether it is going for a walk, run or ride it is really good for melting the stress of the day away. If you can head somewhere away from houses and just get amongst nature, explore a new track and get lost for a moment.

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Buy those new shoes or equipment: One of my favourite sources of motivation is new shoes.

Whenever I buy new shoes, I feel like a pro and it always increases the frequency that I want to work out. Online 6.

shopping still exists, so find a new pair of runners or piece of equipment and get amongst it.

Try a new exercise: Challenge yourself to take up a new form of fitness. Maybe try cycling, running or CrossFit. I have found this to be helpful in building my fitness levels across multiple muscle groups or between aerobic and anaerobic. It also breaks up the monotony of doing the same exercise day after day, giving you something new to look forward to.

7.If youHide the Easter eggs: Hide the Easter eggs or other junk foods as rewards for accomplishing a task. are really bad with your self-control, give your stash to a friend that is dairy-free (so they don’t eat them themselves) and ask them to manage your stash so that you don’t binge eat all of that chocolate goodness. By eating right, it can dramatically increase your mood and motivation.

8. Get amaximise zone: Set up a designate exercise space and create your own home gym. This will help you to your inside space and help in switching your mindset into one for exercise.

9. Create habits: It may seem overwhelming to implement exercise into your daily iso routine, but start small, just do 10-15mins a day and build up from there. If you start small and set the routines in place, it becomes much easier to keep exercise rather than it being just a fad.

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Have fun with it: Nobody has all of the answers in this current climate, so have fun with it! Do some research to see which tips work for you, which ones don’t, and then add your own. Make sure you add some fun into the workout, and before long you will be looking forward to it!

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real talk How are you personally taking the Coronavirus pandemic? Has it affected you, directly or indirectly?

What is the biggest thing that has struck you about the Coronavirus pandemic, positive or negative?

Kira-leigh Josey: I thought I was taking it pretty well, but there has been a lot of change in the last few weeks and it is catching up with me! I have had to force myself to stop constantly refreshing the news because it was not healthy. I do not know anyone with Coronavirus but I do know people who have been tested. Moving back home and becoming a distance student, as well as switching to teaching my students online has given me a bit of whiplash. It has been bizarre seeing the high school of 650+ whittle down to 12 students.

Kira-leigh Josey: I am loving seeing the different ways people are doing ‘church’. The definition has expanded exponentially.

Congregations are looking out for each other and are actively seeking ways to stay connected.

My church is holding weekly Zoom programs which I love being a part of. It has made me question whether the way we normally ‘do’ church is the most effective and what else we can do to reach out to others.

Olivia Fleur Murray: I have not been personally afflicted with coronavirus, praise God, but I do feel the effects of it since my life looks very different now to what it did three weeks ago. I am thankful that everyone in my family is still employed at this time, but it means that I spend most days at home by myself. But video calls with friends, playing with my kitten, and heartily eating my feelings certainly helps with the isolation. I would recommend all three if you can.

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Olivia Fleur Murray: I think the memes struck me first, to be honest. There is a wide variety in the quality of memes, but I love to have a laugh even if it is just a light exhale through the nose.

Other than that, the biggest thing to me is how changeable everything has become. I used to have plans for the week, the semester, the year, and now I just live from day-to-day.

Do you have any guess at what might happen in the next few months?

Kira-leigh Josey: It is so important to be positive. It may get worse before it gets better, but it will get better. I am not sure whether the lockdown measures will get any tougher but what I do know is that we will get through it. I am excited for life on the other side. I think we will appreciate our friends and family as well as the simple pleasures in life so much more.

Olivia Fleur Murray: As a snobby scientist, I thrive on statistics.

Having observed the Australian coronavirus statistics over the past weeks, it appears that the curve is flattening! For anyone who doesn't get why everyone loves curves these days, it basically just means there are not as many new confirmed corona cases each day. I think that the number of daily new cases in Australia will continue to decrease, but I suspect that the living restrictions will last longer than corona will. The truth is I don't know what is coming next, but God does, and that's good enough for me.

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Cheat Sheet

With the semester getting more and more stressful, I hope this Cheat Sheet is as helpful to you as it was to me. This combination of websites, podcasts, music and media are genuinely my top picks for surviving and keeping somewhat sane during this gruelling time. I also hope that if you’re reading this from your self-quarantined cocoon that these picks distract you from the impending doom that is COVID-19. Happy procrastination, friends.

website Slides Go

Shout out to the most tech-savvy RA on Avondale campus, Cassie Saunders. Last year I was assigned a bunch of presentations for my units and I was so sick of seeing the same old PowerPoints.

I wanted to look a bit more professional and stand out from my peers, and Slides Go saved me with its quirky and innovative

PowerPoint templates that you can download for free. It made me look like I had everything together when it was far from true.

youtube First We Feast

If First We Feast hasn’t come up on your recommended videos while you were watching YouTube, then there is something

seriously wrong with your algorithm. Sean Evans, the host of First We Feast, has thought of an ingenious new way of interviewing

celebrities and that is whilst feasting on chicken wings with some

of the world’s spiciest hot sauces. The simple interviews will leave you laughing and cringing at some of the celebrity’s pain.

music Sean Angus Watson

I have the joy of having a lot of friends with awesome music taste.

One such friend got me onto this guy. His Spotify bio is literally ‘I make sleepy guitar music with a loop pedal’ and that’s about it.

Watson will either help you focus on that essay you’ve got to get

done or he will lull you into that nap you’ve been meaning to take for twenty years.

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MOVIES 1917 If you haven’t seen Sam Mendes’s ‘1917’, then you must be living under a pretty big boulder.

Please make this your last push to go see this movie. Aside from the incredible CGI, storyline, acting, writing and cinematography, this movie is a powerful exemplar of World War 1. Aside from the fact that this movie is shot in two long, continual takes, Mendes captures not only the horror but also the beauty of war. It’s truly the perfect quarantine movie.

PODCASTS Crime Junkie

In my second year, this podcast saved me from

those long drives home or it gave me something to tune into when I was doing my on-campus cleaning job, all the while fostering my love for true crime. This podcast is basically two

true-crime junkies who pick apart and go into

the unknown details of various crimes that still

baffles law enforcement today. Their loving and

fun summaries of the cases don’t leave you with

nightmares like some crime podcasts have done to me.

The Self Isolation Podcast

Hosted by an out-of-work actress and a BBC journalist (and occasionally his fiancé), this podcast is about making the best of the

situation as best as you can. As they put it, “it’s an opportunity to share stories, self-isolation life hacks, and, if we can, ‘ave a laff.” Mixing

conversation with snippets from different people’s daily lives, jokes, and expert advice from people like psychologists and teachers, this podcast is

a great way to feel a little less alone when you’re stuck inside.

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