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With all the nostalgia of Sri Lanka, I was exiled to South Australia last year with my family. During this 10 months, I encountered a host of ups and downs in my life. Some were exhilarating, while most are extreme regressions. However I determined to continue my learning journey, though it is, in fact, challengeable due to some practical issues. First and foremost, it was a privilege to be a student of TAFE SA as just migrated to SA. I enrolled with Diploma in English Proficiency last January: Undoubtly It is the best investment I have ever done in SA up to the present. As I perceive, It was double packed. One reason is, the course content itself was like a handbook for newly arrived migrants to look at a glance what sort of place Australia …show more content…

Though I was a teacher in Sri Lanka, frankly I was not enough confident to speak at native speakers. Especially at the very beginning, I was not able to understand the native accent of Australian English. Therefore, this course immensely assisted me to get rid of my unnecessary phobias from my mind as I had the chance of exposing plenty of listening, speaking, writing and reading activities methodically. Further this course provided me a kind of motive to continue my higher study.
Flinders Foundation Studies Program would be the second miles stone of my academic progression. I personally have a goal to achieve an Australian university degree which is highly recognized across the world. Similarly I have a special interest on Flinders University too. Since I am a teacher, I want to enroll with the first degree of English inclusion of linguistics…so on. Education system of Australia is different comparable to Sri Lanka. : Thus I have no much knowledge on the subjects which are needed to be included in BA in …show more content…

Though we deal with academic writing in the TAFE diploma, As the Flinders program has specially designed for prospect graduates, I think this is ideal for me. Apart from this issue, I do not want to interrupt my learning experience that is commenced in TAFE last January and I have a desire to continue it up to enroll with university course.
In regard to my strengthen, I would like to introduce myself as a hard worker_ I want to engage in work. Because I want to spent the day very much busily, fruitfully. Also I am a very enthusiastic learner. I believe the concept of “first learn, then earn”. Even in Sri Lanka, every year I have engaged in some kind of new studies: IT, Computer assisted learning. Therefore I want to accomplish my learning journey in South Australia as well for so

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