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paid him the return flight to England, with first stop Germany at his Oma's place in Göttingen. He attended the Goethe Institute there to build up on his school German. He became quite fluent. On a trip to Poland, Mutter showed George Sapowice, our old home. After that he stayed with Granny and Grandpa Chandler in Goldstone, where he helped on the farm. He also made some trips around England and Scotland and Europe. Before he returned home, he also went to visit Gerda and Fawzy, who were living then in Dakar, Senegal, West Africa. In 1979 he started at Sydney University to study Political Economies. He boarded at Wesley College the first couple of years, and the last two years he shared a house in Newtown.
Mark completed his leaving certificate in 1979. He also took a year off, but didn't want to follow his brother's footsteps. He went on the Indian Pacific train to Perth and then hitch-hiked around the south/western tip of W.A. and across the Nullarbor. Then he went to New Zealand for an extended skiing holiday.
James had his leaving certificate exams in 1980 in Oak Flats Highschool and Margaret finished Primary School at Albion Park Rail the same year.
Alison's Mother visited us from England for the first time in April 1979, soon after her Father had died. She stayed with us until November, when Mutter visited us over Christmas and the summer holidays. She came with us to Lake Conjola, where she stayed in our caravan, which our boys used as their room at Albion Park Rail. She stayed with us till March 1980.
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