Congratulations to our six graduating SANG students- Tariq, Turki, Yazed, Mohaned, Khalid and Abdulmohsen!

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The award winning Maroochy RSL is looking for highly motivated and customer orientated hospitality staff to join our team in the following casual position:

COFFEE SHOP & BISTRO WAITSTAFF

To be considered you must:

• Be willing to work hard and show initiative in a fast paced, high pressure environment

• Be willing to work hard and be part of a large team

• Provide great customer service to our members and guests

• Possess an aptitude for learning and an ability to be cross trained in other areas

• Be neat, tidy and well presented at all times

• Be available to work on a flexible roster which includes weekends and nights

• Hold a current Queensland RSA certificate

• Have a minimum of 2 years previous experience in a similar role

If you meet the above requirements to be part of our Coffee Shop & Bistro team, we look forward to receiving your cover letter and resume.   

An immediate start will be offered to the successful applicant/s.

Please understand that due to the anticipated high volume of applicants, only short listed candidates will be contacted and no phone enquiries will be canvassed. www.seek.com.au

Mushroom picker – Mt Sippy Mushrooms

Mushroom picker

Would you like to come and join our current team of 25 ladies picking the mushroom crops on any of our three locations on the Sunshine Coast.

There is no season for mushrooms as they grow all year round. It takes a person approx 3 months to become experienced at picking and  grading etc., so therefore this job is not suitable for backpackers or holiday visas.

You must have your own vehicle and be prepared to work any of 7days for approximately 30 to 35 hours per week.

We commence work at 7 am and work until the crops are finished for that day. The mushrooms grow in air conditioned rooms so the work is not affected by the weather, and is pleasant in both summer and winter. A reasonable level of fitness is a requirement as the crops are picked at various levels from a stepped mobile trolley. Experience is not essential but ability to work as a team member and to follow instruction is essential.

If you think you are suitable please send your resume to mtsippymushrooms@bigpond.com

Baristas – Maroochydore – Zarraffa’s Coffee

Zarraffa’s Coffee Maroochydore has available positions for Baristas to join their enthusiastic team.

 Barista responsibilities will include;

• Customer Service
• Cashing Orders
• Making Coffee
• Cleaning
• WHS

The positions available are casual, offering 35 – 40 hours per week. Flexible availability is essential, weekend work is also required. Previous experience as a Barista is preferred, but not essential.

If you feel you meet this criteria, have the desire to succeed and enjoy a challenging and rewarding career, please forward your resume with cover letter by email through the ‘apply’  button below. All applications will be received via email only. Please do not apply in store. www.seek.com.au

 Promotional Staff – Bella Venezia

Bella Venezia Restaurant 

(Mooloolaba, Sunshine Coast, QLD)

“Winner-Sunshine Coast Excellence In Business Awards 2007 & 2009″

We are Offering:

• $ Attractive Pay Rates & Incentives
• A Great Team Environment
• Casual Positions
• Various Shifts 12pm-5pm & 5pm-9:30pm
• Career Advancement Opportunity

Positioned in the heart of Mooloolaba, the Sunshine Coast’ s leading Restaurant is seeking highly motivated promotional team members.

This role will utilize your outgoing personality, food sampling & takeaway menus to bring additional patrons to our establishment.

The Award Wining Bella Venezia Restaurant & Bar seats over 150 patrons and has a upmarket service bar & lounge bar with “Fashion TV” playing around the clock.

Candidates will need to send a cover letter explaining why we should select you above the additional large number of expected applications. We highly recommend that you send your photo/portfolio with your application.

Attention
The Director
Bella Venezia Restaurant & Bar
Po Box 1099
Buddina QLD 4575
Enquiries phone:(07)5444 5844
email: bellav1@bigpond.com

Lexis Sunshine Coast was all about Sun, Smiles & Sweets this morning, when we gathered on the deck to help raise money for the Cancel Council of Australia!

Thanks to everyone who came to the fund raiser today to support such a good cause.

We raised some serious dollars$$

UP-COMING May Events 2012

Feel free to speak to a Lexis English staff member to assist with bookings and information, or click on the pictures for further (website) information.

 Perth International Comedy Festival from 2^nd – 20^th May

Presenting the best International comedians to Perth and Australian audiences

Noosa Winter Festival from 5^th – 6^th May

The Festival includes a variety of events for participants including the Noosa Blue Water Swim, Noosa Paddle, Bendigo Bank Family Ride, Subaru Noosa Century Cycle, Noosa Half Marathon, Mizuno Noosa 10km Run and the Noosa News 5km run/walk

Creamfields Music Festival

5^th May Supreme Court Gardens, Perth  /  6^th May Gold Coast Parklands, Gold Coast

David Guetta, Above & Beyond, Dirty South & more…

 Body Art Carnivale from 12^th -13^th May, Eumundi (20 mins from Noosa)

The Australian Body Art Carnivale is Australia’s premier body art event, attracting artists and spectators from across Australia and overseas. Amazing artwork and music all weekend…And it’s FREE!

Noosa Food and Wine Festival 17^th – 20^th May

Four days of superb cuisine, fine wines and fabulous foodie events featuring more than 200 top Australian and International food and wine personalities and producers plus world class entertainment. Job opportunities available!

 Music Lovers – Florence & The Machine!

17^th May Burswood Casino, Perth  /  26^th May Riverstage Brisbane

Australian History buffs check out the – Captain Cook ‘1770’ Festival!

The CAPTAIN COOK 1770 FESTIVAL has been an annual event for nineteen years, commemorating the visit of the Endeavour and the landing of Lt. James Cook and his party on May 24 at the town of Seventeen Seventy, as it is now known. This was the first landing for Cook and his crew in Queensland!

On a beautiful sunny afternoon in Maroochydore there was no better way to spend the afternoon than to go fishing, on the Maroochydore river. It was the first time that the Korean, French, Japanese, German and Spanish students had been fishing, so we began with  a brief rundown of technique. Then each student cast their reels in hope of catching a fish!

Saki was the first to catch a fish but unfortunately due to both the fish and Saki being frightened, it got away. Taka reeled in a lovely little fish and kindly fed it to a local pelican, Great effort everybody!

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Short Order Cook – L’espresso Coffee House
Short Order Cook – Weekends & some Thursday nights / Salary: $20 – $24.99 per hour
Duties will include food preparation, heating & serving, as well as general cleaning.

Pamphlet Deliverers Required – Earn extra cash while walking
Maroochydore areas: 0410 477 575

Holiday Call Centre Sat 9am-2pm                                                                               Come join our enthusiastic & friendly team promoting some of Australia’s top holiday destinations at discounted prices. The job’s fun, the people are great, and the pay, bonuses, and incentives are fantastic.NO EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY

Have fun and enjoy your Easter long weekend!

Holidays
The school will be closed on:
FRIDAY 6^th April
MONDAY 9^th April

School starts again on:
TUESDAY 10^th April at 9:00am

Food + Alcohol
ALL shops will be closed on FRIDAY
That includes food stores and alcohol stores
You will need to buy your food and drink on THURSDAY

Bars + Nightclubs
ALL bars will be closed on FRIDAY (some re-open at midnight)
NO ALCOHOL is served on FRIDAY
You can only buy alcohol when dining in a restaurant

Church Services
Check the  local papers for all services throughout Easter

Lexis English is proud to announce that we have been given full accreditation as an open Cambridge Exams Centre.

 Nina has a long history with Cambridge exams. Before coming to Australia, Nina taught and ran Cambridge exams in Switzerland. Since joining Lexis she has taught Cambridge Pet, First and Advanced before being appointed as ADOS and Cambridge Professional Development coordinator.

Nina says, ” I am delighted to take on this role as Cambridge Manager. There will be two open centres; Lexis Cambridge East  Coast covering Byron Bay, Brisbane, Noosa and Maroochydore and Lexis Cambridge West Coast covering our Perth Beach school.

Lexis Noosa, has already established a reputation as a Cambridge centre of excellence and we are proud of being able to offer high quality Cambridge tuition and our superior results.   I am especially proud of our 100% pass rate at CPE level”.

“Students will now have the benefit of an efficient central registration of exams and the convenience of sitting exams locally. I am looking forward to travelling to our schools in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia, to meet the new Cambridge teams and lead Cambridge professional development”.

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This PIC was taken in ( Melaleuca Station – Memorial Gardens & Crematorium ) 3 days ago. I was OMW to Sunshine Coast from ByronBay when something caught my attention. I stopped and I was shocked. I was thrilled by the beauty of the landscape. I have never ever seen anywhere like this. Many  famous people came to this place -  it’s like paradise!

At the same time when eccentric emperor Rudolf II. (1552 – 1612) ruled Prague there was a large Jewish commune that was lead by Rabbi Low.

He was a very clever and learned person. He had also some magic skills which he sometimes used to help poor Jewish people.

In those days, people from the Jewish commune had many problems with Christian people. They were often fighting together on the streets and sometimes someone was killed.

Then Rabbi Low decided to use his magic skills to create a big strong creature which would protect the Jewish people. He used mud and clay and modeled a robust man with a small hole in his head. If the rabbi put a small magic marble into this hole the clay man came alive.

Rabbi Low gave him the name Golem.

For a long time the Golem was very useful. He helped the rabbi defend the Jewish people from Christian attacks. But one day the rabbi was away from home, the Jewish people tried to use the Golem by themselves and the Golem went crazy and hurt one Christian child. Fortunately the rabbi came back and took the magic marble from his head, then he decided to destroy the Golem.

Many of the rabbi’s friends tried to persuade him not to do it, but they weren’t successful. On this day the Golem disappeared forever.

Nobody knows what happened with Golem. Manny people believe that the Golem wasn’t destroyed. Maybe he is hidden somewhere but no one can find him….

I head first time this story from my gand father when I was a child

After testing and orientation was over, the Lexis Students headed over to Cotton tree park for a delicious BBQ and drinks! Students played soccer and volleyball, and afterwards headed to the Sunshine plaza shopping centre for some retail therapy!

CONGRATULATIONS TO REBECCA!

Well done to all our Lexis students who submitted such fantastic photography, and a BIG thank you to all of you who participated in the competition.

Lexis | English – Facebook photo results, as of 5pm last friday:

Rebecca (Brisbane campus) – 380 likes

Tanja (Perth campus) – 287 likes

Angela (Sunshine Coast campus) – 159 likes

Paula (Noosa campus) – 144 likes

Lexis Noosa and Lexis Sunshine Coast came head to head in a game of futsal at Noosa Leisure Centre yesterday afternoon.

It was shirts off and game on for our Lexis Noosa team as the whistle blew for the first half of the game. Lexis Sunshine Coast kicked the first goal after 5 minutes and cheers were roaring from the massive Sunshine Coast supporters who travelled an hour in a bus to watch their team. It was not long after that Noosa started to show their superb futsul skills and kicked goal after goal. Half time saw Noosa on 7 and Sunshine Coast on 2. There was still hope for Sunshine Coast to catch up as the Saudi boys finally turned up to play! 

The last half included some in/unintentional trips, slams, bumps, hot heads and amazing saves by both goal keepers. Sunshine Coast won with the show of supporters but Noosa won the game! The final score was Noosa 10 and Sunshine Coast 3. The afterparty took place overlooking the gorgeous Noosa River at Noosa Yacht Club with some jugs of beer provided courtesy of Lexis English. Congratulations to our Lexis Noosa Futsul Team… we are so proud of you!

Futsul – Lexis Noosa versus Lexis Sunshine Coast.

Come and support the Sunshine Coast team next Wednesday at the Noosa Leisure Centre! After party at the Noosaville Yacht Club (10 min walk from the Noosa Leisure Centre.) Ask Beth for more details…….

On Friday afternoon the rain held off long enough for the Kindai students to enjoy a game of boys vs. girls soccer at Cotton Tree. the weather stayed sunny and the students quickly wore themselves out, the end result being the girls winning! We then went for a quick dip at Cotton Tree beach before heading back to school for some a well deserved rest!

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Seventeen students from Switzerland, Italy, France, Korea and Brazil partook in a surf lesson on another scorching hot day in Maroochydore. The three instructors worked with the students on both the sand and in the water, helping them with both technique and style. The lesson was filled with laughter and many interesting surf techniques. Congratulations to all participants for their effort and enthusiasm!

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Naomi likes to make sure that everyone remembers to use English while they are at school. Be careful if you don’t!! Her class has decided that a taste of Vegemite will be given to anyone who doesn’t speak English in the classroom. Today it was Sandra, Mohanad & Sultan who had to taste Vegemite. I wonder if they liked it?………. Who will be next?
Find out more about Vegemite, the famous Australian spread.

Monday was yet another cloudy day outside, but inside was another story altogether! Fifteen students gathered in the cosy social space to watch the movie classic ‘Pearl Harbour’ with the comfort of lollies, chocolate and great company of course! This hit flick is based on a true story and features Josh Hartnett, Ben Affleck and the beautiful Kate Beckinsale. Drama, romance and amazing movie footage drew us all in until the finale. I look forward to our next rainy day together for yet another ‘smash hit’!

Our SANG students are just as talented outside the classroom. Congratulations on winning the Grand Final boys and to Memo for scoring the winning goal.

Today we enjoyed a free welcome BBQ at Cotton Tree Park!

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Despite the heavy rain, loud thunder and spectacular lightening, quite a few students managed to sacrifice a hard night of grammar study for a few drinks at the local pub last Thursday! The forecast is said to be perfect for beer drinking tonight so I look forward to seeing you ALL there!

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Secrets Only a Local Would Know

A GLASS TO THE BRIM with sweet, cold vanilla ice cream, accompanied with a double shot of espresso in a jug. This is the Baked Poetry Café’s unique iced coffee and it’s gastronomically orgasmic. Baked Poetry Café is situated in the courtyard of Peregian Shopping Centre.

AFTER A CRISP, EARLY morning surf or ocean swim at Alexandra Headland, stroll up in your togs to the relaxed Beach Kiosk at the Alex Surf Club for a beachside breakfast. salt road tests this secret on a  regular basis and recommends the breakfast wrap, which is made fresh on the spot, washed down with a steamy coffee. Order to go or perch at a table and watch the nippers scramble to and from the surf or the regular stream of walkers, runners and cyclists who pound the path that hugs the coast.

IF YOU’RE A LOVER OF CLASSIC old-style Australian pubs that ooze charm and have a great bar to perch at, then salt recommends a visit to the Apollionian Hotel, Laguna Street, Boreen Point. Sit out in the bougainvillea-lined deck, order a counter meal and a jug full of golden beer and settle in for a lazy Sunday session.

GET FRESH AT COTTON TREE is a gourmet grocer of the highest standard. It’s a feast for the eyes for first time customers where a long timber table sits in the centre of the shop overflowing with bright, healthy produce. At the back of the shop sits a boutique bakery selling fresh bread and gourmet pies. Get Fresh was established by Grant and Nadine Imlach, who moved with their children from the chilly streets of Queenstown in New Zealand to the laid back coastal culture of Cotton Tree.  They’ve been in produce all their working lives and it shows with their newest venture. Shop 10, 1 King Street, Cotton Tree. 5443 3131.

Today we started a new cooking class! The students cooked pikelets and enjoyed some Australian afternoon tea.

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The activity today is a photography competition. Meet at 2pm in the common room!

Bring along your best snaps!