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Looking for news from home?

Hi All,

Do you like to read the news from home online? Take a look at the Library's International News Resources page and see if your country's newspaper is listed. If so, you can click through to see the latest news online.

If your country is not listed, or you would like to suggest other national newspapers be added, please let us know so we can consider adding it to the list.

Happy reading!
The Blog Team

Housing, exam results and holidays

You may be interested to read an excellent story from Muditha at Mawson Lakes, about coming to Australia, settling in and finding housing. Have you had similar experiences? Let us know and we will post your story on the blog for others to read. Have a look at this map of Adelaide and see if you can locate where you live.

You will all now have your exam results, and we hope you are feeling OK about them. If you have concerns, remember that Learning Connection staff can help you, either academically or personally.

We hope you are feeling rested and looking forward to the next phase of your studies.

Best wishes,
The Blog Team

It's holiday time!

Congratulations for coming this far and sitting for your Nursing 1 exam! We hope you all did well.

Some of you also sat for the July OET exam last Friday. We hope that those who sat for this exam found it not too hard, and feel confident in passing. There are also students who are registering for the September exam at this time. Good Luck for this exam as well!

All the students in the ARNTP program, now have a holiday for a week! Some of you will be travelling interstate, and others will be rugged up on the lounge with a great book. Take the time to relax your mind, body and soul, so that you are ready to continue with your study next week!

Enjoy your break!

The blog team

A great post from Rupa

Nepal is the second richest country in water resourses after Brazil.Nepal, with great Himalayas and many rivers and lakes is very rich in water sources.In every city there are rivers and in every hill there are water falls.

But due to the lack in proper utilisation of these reources there is always water shortage in cities.Population is incresing like sky rocketing everywhere,and to accomodate this growing population is one of the gratest challenges for every country.

Though population is incresing ,resources remain the same.So we need to be very careful in utilisation of these resources.It is our responsibility to leave a better world for the coming generation.Lets make the world a better place to live.Save water save life.

Rupa Pudasaini

Thanks Rupa from the blog team. It's very interesting to hear what's happening in other countries!

Australia's drought

Have you heard a lot of talk in the media about the drought? Australia has had lower than average rainfalls for the past few years and the rivers and reserviours are drying up. Water conservation is on everyone's mind. The situation is so bad there may be permanent irreversible damage to the River Murray our main water supply.

To help save water the South Australian Government has imposed water restrictions on its residents. Level 3 water restrictions mean that there are implicatons for watering gardens, washing cars, filling swimming pools etc. They also recommend 3 minute showers.

If you want to find out more here is the link to the website:
http://www.sawater.com.au/SAWater/Environment/WaterRestrictionsConservationMeasures/

Please let us know if these restrictions are affecting you. How does this situation compare with your home country?

Cheers

The Blog Team