So my name is Emma Grace.
I'm from Nauru and I graduated Mitchelton State High School
in 2021.
Three highlights would be
being part of the International Student Program.
Meeting my friends, my lifelong friends.
Joining the Kokoda Challenge during my last year.
Kokoda Challenge is a hike that was 48 kilometres long.
Took us 17 hours to complete.
And Grace was a very important member of the group
that basically finished the very first Kokoda Track.
She was instrumental in keeping up the spirits
of all the students because this is no easy task.
It requires stamina, it requires resilience.
But grace was certainly a wonderful inspirer
and in this group
there are a lot of opportunities
at Mitchelton State High School for you.
We try to work with every student individually
so that you fulfil your dreams and your potential.
They are looking into what my interests were, so that was good.
And then what I was able to do.
So my skills and my strengths.
So yeah, so we decided para-medicine so in Nauru will help, you know,
emergency situations and everything like that.
Yeah.
So I plan to come back to Queensland to study for my para-medicine degree
and then I plan to work for Nauru for that.
So yeah.
Grace is a wonderful, quiet, gentle leader.
She's an inspiration to many of the other students.
My final year I've received the City Smart Award for 2021, and that award
will go to an international student who was willing to participate, eager
to learn new things and experience the Aussie experience.
So I would go with my friends, her family,
they would go every holiday.
So that was my favourite place to go.
Yeah, that'll be Movieworld.
So there were a lot
of extra curricular options, like the performing arts.
There was art, dance, music clubs,
there was sports, soccer, basketball, rugby.
Yeah.
So those academics, there was science, math, tutoring.
We believe that the extracurricular program is so important
to our student development because it helps create that balance,
that balance between a sound mind and a sound body.
Yeah.
So I started as an intern in Department of Education.
After my intern finished, they offered me a temporary position
and they offered me to come here and esort
the new students so that I share what I had to go through.
So it was just, yeah, amazing, really.