National Year of Reading
I'm duty bound to give this public announcement. But it's also very cool.
It's the National Year of Reading in Australia in 2012. Why? The Australian Library Association told us so. Well, it's actually because research shows that 47% of Australians don't have the literacy level required to fill in a basic form properly. This is a push to get Australians reading. The base line goal is to get people reading an hour a week. Seems sooo low to me, but obviously I like reading a lot.
So get reading and check out what your public library is doing for it. Might be (vaguely) fun (in a library kind of a way).
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As a TCK you might be interested in the first item on last Friday's Boundless podcast, Focus on the Family's podcast for young adults (18-39ish), which is all about being an MK and the impact it has on your life. It features a group of young adults who were an MK when growing up discussing their experience.
You can find out more about it at:
http://www.boundlessline.org/2012/02/we-are-the-world-episode-209.html
You can listen to it via itunes or another podcast broadcaster.
I really enjoy and benefit from your blog posts and appreciate you writing them, particularly when you are so busy.
One of your UK readers.
Linda
Wow. 47% can't fill in a form properly. That's a bit scary. Although if it's Centrelink forms they are talking about then I totally get it (even those with several degrees and high levels of literacy might struggle with those...)
"Nearly half the population struggles without the literacy skills to meet the most basic demands of everyday life and work. There are 46% of Australians who can't read newspapers; follow a recipe; make sense of timetables, or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle"
I'm the same with those terrible Centrelink forms btw. Horrible.
No wonder they have so many unclaimed payments...