-Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 11,1977
Page 26
‘The people are so trusting’
Australia captivates Hampton girl
BY JAN SAVAGE
Ellen English, along with her parents and siblings,
has returned to her hometown of Hampton after five
years in Australia.
Unable to erase Georgia from their minds, the
family came back to the same Henry County
homeplace they once left behind.
Ellen, daughter of Bob and Betty English, is the
eldest of five children. In September 1972, at the age
of 19, she traveled with them to live in Sydney,
Australia. She spent five years traveling and
working, gaining insight about her own Individuality
while learning about the Australian way of life.
Ellen’s first job was in Katoomba, New South
Wales working as a private secretary for a real
estate firm. There she remained for four months
bringing home SSB a week for 40 hours of work.
"Each week I put SSO in the bank and saved $8 to
live on," she said. Spared the expense of food, rent
and household bills by living with her family, Ellen
found that she could live comfortably on such a
minimal amount.
"The cost of living was not bad in Australia," she
added. "Os course every now and then I splurged,
keeping $lO for pocket money.”
Still, Ellen wanted more. In January 1973 she
found a job teaching mildly retarded and
handicapped children at Niland School for Specific
Purposes in Sydney.
During her teaching days, Ellen took advantage of
traveling in Australia. The school system differs
from the United States in that school remains In
session all year round, including summer.
Students and teachers received a two week
vacation every three months, in addition to eight
weeks at Christmas. This system was satisfactory to
Ellen, enabling her to travel somewhere different at
least three times a year.
After two and a half years of teaching, Ellen set
new sites and traveled throughout New Zealand for
several months.
In the fall of 1975, she began hitchhiking in the
North Island with three friends. Responding to a
look of surprise at her statement Ellen added,
"Hitchhiking is safe there and the people are kind.”
"We often camped outdoors. Once when It rained
on us as we slept at the beach we went to the first
house we saw, looking like drowned rats...and the
family took us in to sleep on their living room floor,”
she explained.
A TRUSTING GENRE
"In Australia and New Zealand the people are so
trusting and gracious. It is a shame that we in the
United States can’t love our fellowman for fear of
being stabbed In the night or robbed blind,” she
continued.
Ellen and her companions began staying overnight
at places provided by the Youth Hostel Association,
which made their accommodations simple.
The Association owned old school houses,
churches, or vacant homes throughout the state
where young travelers could stay for $1 per night for
a maximum of three days.
The foursome traveled to the South Island until
Ellen began work for O’Connell's Hotel In
Queenstown, a ski resort.
Beginning as a waitress, Ellen worked her way up
to Head Hostess and on to Restaurant Manager.
Depending upon the hours worked, Ellen brought
home between S6O-$75 a week.
Although the pay was not much more than her
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first job in Sydney, Ellen’s position as manager gave
her an opportunity to travel the South Island by
working at the Association’s chain of vacation
hotels.
Having traveled both the North and South Islands,
Ellen compared the two. "The South was decorated
with magnificant snow capped mountains and sheep
stations, but I enjoyed the North best with it’s rolling
hills, cattle, and farmland.
"The North and South Islands are like two
separate countries,” she said, explaining that the
temperament and accents of the people varied.
"Those of the South Island have an Australian-
British accent, while those of the North sound
Polynesian.”
From New Zealand, Ellen went to Adelaide, which
had always been her favorite city. "This coastal city
was well-layed and beautiful. It was a city for young
people where there was plenty to do, but no one was
ever In a hurry. They knew how to live It up easily
and enjoy life,” she said.
Her first job in Adelaide was as a private
kindergarten teacher at Mother Goose Day Care
Center. "The children, ages three through six,
thought I was Mother Goose herself because I wore
a blue uniform with a schoolhouse embroidered on
the front,” the teacher recalled. Ellen left the center
in December due to a chicken pox epidemic.
A private academy of television acting, live
drama, radio and professional modeling immediate
ly approached her for a position as Top House Model
and tutor of classes for children and adults.
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Oliver H. Jones, executive vice
president of the Mortgage
Bankers Association of Amer
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the Year for 1977 by the Nation
al Federation of Housing Coun
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NFHC is a national profes
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selors, including heads of coun
seling agencies approved by the
U.S. Department of Housing
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She brought home SSB a
week for 40 hours work..
‘I put SSO in the bank
and kept' $8 to live on.’
Having received a degree in Speech and Drama
with a minor in Education and English from Georgia
Southern College, Ellen took the job.
The American model filmed numerous non-speak
ing television commercials with the firm, displaying
or demonstrating a product. "The accent of a South
American would have threatened many Australians
who would have resented me, feeling I had taken
their job,” Ellen explained.
Due to the attitudes of Co-workers that conflicted
with her personal Philosophy, Ellen stopped
modeling but continued her tutoring classes while
teaching retarded children In Adelaide until
December of 1975.
TAUGHT REMEDIAL CHILDREN
The following five months of 1976 were spent
teaching remedial children. "These youngsters had
mental blocks against a particular subject, such as
math or reading,” she stated. At the same time,
Ellen kept the exceptional child occupied with
harder books and complicated math problems.
At the end of the year she learned that her sister,
Karen, planned to marry. Ellen began preparations
to return to Hampton in May for the wedding.
After five years of extensive travel including the
Pacific, two trips to Hawaii and one to the Fijian
Islands, Ellen arrived home May 16, 1976 at 7:00
p.m.
She stepped back on United States soil in San
Franscisco after multiple complications. An Air
Traffic Controller’s strike left a back log of 20,000
persons trying to get out of Australia.
Following two hectic weeks of preparing and
celebrating the wedding, Ellen left Hampton a
second time to visit relatives in Clearwater, Florida.
She lived in the same apartment complex as her
relatives for two months working In a restaurant.
Although she was successful In securing several
Florida jobs, Georgia was still on her mind.
Ellen returned to Hampton last week and after a
few phone calls, alot of paper work and Interviews,
she plans to teach elementary school in Locust
Grove this fall.
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