Sydney's People Podcast

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Melinda: On Top of the World




Melinda is a 21 year old Sydney university student. She talks about her recent trips to India & Vietnam, her love of dancing, physical education, her career and her fantastic job as a Bridge Leader.If you want to know what this means , listen to our conversation.

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Download the MP3 file (MB, o:02.70 )(Duration 00:11:50)
Music by Mig

Some of my students have written short articles about Melinda, Svietalana's is one of them.

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2 Comments:

  • Melinda is a university student, she is 21. She lived all her life in Sydney. She likes to travel. Melinda went to India and Vietnam. She went to India with her mum and she actually hated it, because of the shock she had the fact that she was travelling first class and the distance she felt to people.
    When she went to Vietnam with her friend, Melinda liked it lot, especially the motorcycle trip. She is describing her life in Vietnam with a very warm tone of voice and fells us hat she really liked it.
    Now Merinda is working on the Harbour Bridge in Sydney. She meats interesting people who take trips to climb on top the bridge. She likes her job, she is a very active person. In the past she used to do dancing and she is studying physical education. Melinda is a very enthusiastic and happy yang woman and she is following her life principles which help her live and enjoy her life.

    By Blogger Sviatlana, at 4:48 PM  

  • Melinda is a young university student.She has been studying P.E teaching (Physical Eduaction) for one year and half and she is working as climb leader.she lives in west Sydney, she loves travel. She went to India with her mum for three weeks when she finished high school in 2004,but she hated it.Travelling by private car caused distance between her and Indian people.Her second international travel was to Vietnam with her friend Tom for one month in the july holiday 2007. She loved Vietnam which is agreen country with smilling people. She had two days travel with her friend and private drivers on motorcycles in Vietnam.She was learning dancing when she was three years old then teaching dancing when she became sixteen to children in her father's dancing school. Now she does a great job taking groups of twelve tourists to climb and show them around the Sydney Harbor Bridge from the top and give information about when it was built,when it was opened,how many people died during the building of the bridge.

    By Blogger Fawzia, at 4:22 AM  

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