My name is Ashley and I have lived in Borroloola all my life. Originally my parents came to Borroloola for twelve months but have been here for fifteen years. Many of my family followed my parents here. Two of my cousins own a hardware shop, my aunt owns a takeaway, my other cousin is a DPI and my uncle runs the freight service. I have gone to school here for almost all my life, for two years I dropped out of public school and went into home school.
In 2009 I started public school again because my mum got a new job and wouldn't let me stay at home alone. The school here is based on the home school I was attending so I do a some different courses than other people attending the school. For Work Experience I go to the town library. There I put books on the computer and sort the shelves. Part of my Work Experience was to come to the Learning Futures Program and participate in the course.
The library has three computers in it, all of them have Internet access. Some people don't know how to use the computers so we came to the Learning Futures Program to learn a little more about computers so we could pass the knowledge on. I do my work experience on Fridays and we are meant to do it every Friday for five weeks. I only have one Work Experience left but I still am glad I came because it's fun and you get to learn a lot of new things.
