I got the book “The Golden Buddha – The Oregon Files” by Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo for my birthday this year.
It was a good book that I managed to read in under a week, which with the busyness of our life right now is pretty quick.
On one of my other web-sites, Blog About Books, you can read the full review of Golden Buddha – The Oregon Files by Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo.
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This morning I went for my Australian Citizenship Interview and Test.
The interview wasn’t anything more than taking my photo and scanning my documents. I was told to budget 30-minutes for the interview, but it probably only took about 5-minutes.
I was escorted to the back room of the Australian Centrelink office where they had a room set-up with two computers for the citizenship test. They set me up on the computer where I had to answer 20 multiple-choice questions in a 45-minute time frame.
The topics covered by the Australian Citizenship Test were:
The three questions in the Responsibilities and Privileges of Australian Citizenship were mandatory questions, so I had to get those three correct. The pass mark for the test was 60%.
There were a few questions that I was only 90% sure I got right, but overall I was pretty confident. When I got the results I scored 100% on the Australian Citizenship test!
I was glad that I had read through the Becoming and Australian Citizen booklet two times, and also gone through a bunch of the Australian Citizenship example tests. Some of the controversy over the test is the Australian sports questions. There were only two sports questions on the test, and since I have lived here for almost ten years already, they were pretty easy ones.
My interview was due to start at 11:30. I had arrived 15-minutes early just because I was too scared to be late. They got me into the interview early and I was done the interview and the test by 11:30. I was pleasantly surprised.
Now the next step will be to send in my application form, wait until it’s been approved and then attend an Australian Citizenship Ceremony.
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This morning work is at a standstill in some ministry areas of Reef to Outback so that some of the staff can watch the Super Bowl.
I guess this is one of the things that we have to deal with given that Reef to Outback is a YWAM base staffed mostly by young Americans.
Some people say that the Australian’s worship their sport (there are even test questions about it on the Australian Citizenship test). But some of our YWAM staff get truly fanatical when it comes to American Gridiron (it’s only called football in the US or Canada, most people around the world call it gridiron)…
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I already wrote the story about Ken Mulligan receiving the Townsville City Council’s Citizen of the Year.
Well, here’s the video of it, plus a fantastic endorsement for Reef to Outback from Tony Mooney, Townsville’s mayor.
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Ken Mulligan is the director of Youth With A Mission – Reef to Outback here in Townsville.
During the Australia Day celebrations here in Townsville Ken was named the Townsville City Council’s Citizen of the Year, which is a pretty exciting honour.
You can read the article on the Townsville Bulletin Web-site – Man with a mission. There should also be an article up soon on the Reef to Outback News, but right now it hasn’t got posted yet…
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