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Emma Parsons [Turner]

Gosh, this all seems so long ago.
I left the Netherlands early (about 11 months in) to return to Oz for a scholarship interview with a mining company. Luckily it was worth the gamble as the scholarship funded my next 4 yrs of uni study and gave me the opportunity to work in a smelter driving an overhead crane and forklift over one of my summer vacations. In 1995-96 a dutch exchangee, Lisa van Esch, was being hosted by my sponsoring club so we enjoyed about 6 months of Nederlands praten while out socialising. My dutch has since slipped and although I still understand a fair bit I'm too nervous to speak it much beyond a few expletives.

My first job after uni was in Melbourne as a consulting engineer. The dreary weather and a chronic illness got the better of me and I ended up back in Adelaide working as a public servant (I'm now recovered from the illness). A year or so later a broken engagement reignited my sense of adventure and self-indulgence so I took off on a hiking holiday to Vietnam. When I returned I got heavily into scuba diving, which I'd been dabbling in on and off since my return from the Netherlands. This turned out to be quite fortuitous as scuba diving and an argument over the Middle East led to me meeting my soul mate, to whom I am now married. We spend most of our time fishing and immersed in underwater photography. My not-so-secret wish is to eventually earn enough money from photography to retire from my real job. You can see some of my photos at these links:
www.uwimages.org/2005/gallery/macro-novice/macro-novice2005.htm
www.saups.org

The photo of me above is courtesy of my husband Lyndon during our recent trip to Papua New Guinea.

message 2005_09_11
Hi Eric

Great website. Denise Eichel used her sleuthing skills to track me down and flagged the GNet site for me to look at. What a great way to catch up! Anyway my details per your categories is listed below and a recent photo is attached.

Thanks
Emma

Other interesting snippets:
I have 2 step kids - Alice is 14 and Ben is 11. We host them every second weekend.
We also have a beautiful but naughty short-haired Border Collie called Enzo (after the world champion Freediver - you know the one depicted in the movie The Big Blue)
Next holiday destinations: PNG, Solomon Islands then hopefully Truk/Chuuk Lagoon

Key Stats

Country of Origin:

Australia

Education/Next Steps post-Holland:

Bachelor of Civil & Environmental Engineering (First Class Honours) at the University of Adelaide

Birthday:

April 10th, 1977

Current Address:

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Current Phone Number:

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Preferred E-mail Address:

emma_turner@optusnet.com.au (there's a "trick" underscore _ between my first and surname)

Current Profession or LifeGig:

Best described by a bumper sticker I saw recently: "Born to fish, forced to work". I guess technically I'm an engineer working for the state water utility but my role is a mixture of engineering, project management, finance and business. I'm currently balancing a full time job and part-time study for an MBA to 'broaden my job opportunities"....... read into that what you will.

Favorite expression in Dutch:

"Goedemorgen zonde zorgen! Lekker ding!"

Vote for a Rotary Exchange Holland Reunion (REHR):

"This seems a bit superfluous since you've already chosen Vegas but for the next one I'd vote for a tropical island setting; somewhere warm, with gin clear water and plenty of beach and cocktail sipping opportunities."

Rotary club in Holland:

Heeze

Hosting Rotary club in home country:

Mobilong, South Australia

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