Home Sickness

Every kid who comes away from home to a boarding school finds it difficult. How much more so for kids from remote aboriginal communites that do not pulse to the clock. It is much easier to be home with mum and the family.

The kids know they have been sent not for personal gain, but so they may be trained to help the Families and Community back home.

Parents asked them to come so they may learn to dialogue and negotiate with non-aboriginal australians, so Tiwi may speak for themselves and not rely on spokespeople who do not know the deeper Tiwi needs.

This year we have the grade 8 kids with the older ones Josetta and Sheree to help them settle in.

It is very hard, but the parents are ringing the kids most days, encouraging them to hang in, to keep trying....