Women and the World (ePub)

I Kerry Susan Drake returned to formal study to complete a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism at Deakin University and a Diploma of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing at the Council of Adult Education in Melbourne in 1999. I have a Certificate in Business Studies Public Relations from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University where I began my degree in journalism, and majored in Politics before I married. I also have graduated as a teacher of Speech and Drama from Trinity College London, and have a Master of Arts Writing from Swinburne University. I have been teaching for six years, and find it very rewarding. International students have stayed in my home and received one to one tutoring in English Language. I also teach English Language VCE level.

In 2001 I started The Leading Dramatic Society Theatre, which is a community theatre for which I act as Director. When I was eighteen my passion was acting. I thought I was meant to be an actor because I won an award for best actor in a schoolhouse play. While working at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, I joined the Actors Theatre in Richmond. At the same time I studied acting at Crawford's School of Film & Television.

Later, writing somehow took over. I began keeping a journal, and then researched my family tree and compiled a pictorial history on my father's life. In an honorary capacity, I started a newsletter for the local church. While directing a religious musical I contacted the editor of the local paper and passed on stories of interest about my church as Public Communications Director. Even doing this, I did not think my future would be that of a writer.

English standards were high at Northcote Technical School; on leaving year eleven I had some impressive marks for short stories and essay writing, but marking was tough in English. In Applied Sciences, I finished fourth out of a class of ten, in which there were eight males - Mr Elliott, the Chemistry teacher,

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