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Pam Taylor Essay

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Pam Taylor is a fascinating person. She started out in a small home deep in the suburbs of Melbourne, with a dream to become a ballet dancer. She met her future husband at the age of 17, then married a short time later. She hated school, and went only because of her friends. She has lived in different places, from London to Germany. She loves teaching, and clothing.
Pam was raised in Melbourne. Her favourite thing to do was to play cops and robbers with her three brothers, two sisters and other children in the street. She decided that when she grew up, she would be a ballet dancer, but her family could not afford lessons. A television was what she deeply wanted, yet the family did not have enough money for one. But one day her dad came home and said, “I have rented a TV for the holidays.”. She was shocked, but also very excited.
Pam hated school. All they did …show more content…

Their parents both worked together, and were meeting up for a catch up. “I was very young when I got married, only 21.” She said the time when she met Roy was the most important part of her life. “My life would be so different if I didn’t meet him.”
The next stage in Pam’s life was going to university. She decided to do the teaching course because she had hated school so much, and wanted to be a teacher she would have wanted. This was no light endeavour. It is a three-year program. She decided to become a prep teacher, which required another 2-year course. “It was very stressful. When I was a student teacher at a school I was judged quite harshly, and sometimes this was heartbreaking.” After all that training, she got her first job as a prep teacher at Coburg State School.
She remembers the day the first man landed on the moon. Every single year gathered in the assembly hall, and looked at the tiny TV screen at the front. Then a small student accidently unplugged the cable connected to the TV, just seconds before it happened. Luckily, Pam quickly re-plugged it in, just in

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