Ozcloggie
- Jo Mulholland
- Retired. Oil painting. Have assessed beaches for the Keep Australia Beautiful, Clean Beach Challenge, NSW, between 2001 and 2008.I was spending a lot of time on the Redbubble.com website, as Ozcloggie (art) and MrJoop (photography).
Into Bookcrossing. Am Dutch-Australian.My solo exhibition was called: Remembering, an Anthology.Born in Gouda, the Netherlands. Migrated on the Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, 1956. Stayed in Bonegilla, Scheyville, Villawood and Matraville Hostels. Attended Maroubra Bay High School. Was on the M.B.H.S.reunion organising committee. Attended Wollongong Teachers College. U.N.E. Post-graduate. Board member Federation of Netherlands Societies NSW and QWBF board member.So pleased to have put some former SCHEYVILLE residents back in touch, who knew each other, in the 60s there, as children. (I was there earlier, briefly, in 1956. Andagain earlier this year for the celebrations.)
Friday, December 30, 2011
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Those cheese heads and how their children are taught.
Oz Cloggie I love the example given, where the politician urged that the students return to addressing teachers, using the formal 'U', while in the heat of debate, in parliament the prime minister was being called an 'idiot'.
Oz Cloggie The last 3rd (roughly) of my 37 years as "chalkie" (11 years) was spent at the one 'smallish' school, in southern Sydney. Pupils who transferred to there from inner-city schools, were sometimes still used to calling the teacher: "Sir". They soon dropped that. There was a good balance of (in)formality. The discipline is not based on such matters.
*Considering that not all of these politicians are teacher-trained or have a great deal of experience, managing class-rooms.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Yope, the Dope ~ that's me!
My teacher, in Villawood Migrant Hostel (1956) used to smile and call me: Joop (pronounced: Yope) the Dope.
I couldn't speak English yet and I actually liked him. He also demonstrated that he appreciated what I COULD do, ( apart from speak English).
There WAS a time, in the 'bad old days', when teachers would say something like: "Oh. Your name is Giorgio, or Giuseppina, or Luigi. Then WE!!! will call you......."
For a LONG time now, teachers have left it to the parents to allow them to give their babies names, to go through life with.
When I came to Australia, I was Joop Mul. (When I type that name on face-book, a very distant relative ~ in two senses ~ pops up! ) 30 years later, the Mul was changed by deed-poll to Mulholland (When I type that, on facebook, two very close relatives pop up.)
It's such a nice thing, when ex-pupils call me Mr Mul ( on facebook ).
They knew me, during my first 23 years of teaching. (For better or for worse.)
When SBS Radio (via 2EA) first started, I was "on the radio" as still, Joop Mul. (Pleasant memories again.)
Call me Jo Mulholland, if you are not an ex-pupil, or a relative, or an old schoolfriend, or that listener, who remembers me.
But don't TELL me what I have to call myself!!!
(Fortunately, today is likely to have been the last time that I've seen that hybrid name, in print.)
A small group of people insist on calling me: "Joop Mulholland". I've NEVER called myself that, in any situation. I resent it! No other people have ever done this to me. When I changed my last name, by deed-poll, I also made my first name, Jo. (It's short for Johannes, which most people anglicise to "John". )
If we had not migrated to Australia, like my father I would have progressed through: Jopie (as a toddler), Joop (as a teenager) to Jo (as an adult), when interacting with people. (My 'formal', i.e., FULL name would have remained: Johannes.) All that is not so unusual. (Because I was named after my father ~ and so many other ancestors ~ it was handy to be Jopie (at first) and Joop (later), when being called to dinner, or whatever, by my mother. We knew which of us she was calling. None of that was so unusual when Joop was such a common name, in the Netherlands. To me, it makes perfect sense that having been known as Jo Mulholland, since 1987 and introduced myself as that, is my perfect right. Apart from this small group of people, no-one else has ever insisted on choosing a name for me.
I guess, that another way to explain it is how women may have been known by their "maiden name", in school, and, when meeting up with old school friends will answer to that "maiden name", quite happily, while functioning, in general society, with the "married name". Film star, Doris Day was born Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff. Hopefully, once she'd become well-known, she wasn't introduced as, or named in print as: Doris Day Von Kappelhoff. Hopefully in general society, she was allowed to be Doris Day and when visiting her aunties and uncles (or whoever) she might have been called by the original name.
I couldn't speak English yet and I actually liked him. He also demonstrated that he appreciated what I COULD do, ( apart from speak English).
There WAS a time, in the 'bad old days', when teachers would say something like: "Oh. Your name is Giorgio, or Giuseppina, or Luigi. Then WE!!! will call you......."
For a LONG time now, teachers have left it to the parents to allow them to give their babies names, to go through life with.
When I came to Australia, I was Joop Mul. (When I type that name on face-book, a very distant relative ~ in two senses ~ pops up! ) 30 years later, the Mul was changed by deed-poll to Mulholland (When I type that, on facebook, two very close relatives pop up.)
It's such a nice thing, when ex-pupils call me Mr Mul ( on facebook ).
They knew me, during my first 23 years of teaching. (For better or for worse.)
When SBS Radio (via 2EA) first started, I was "on the radio" as still, Joop Mul. (Pleasant memories again.)
Call me Jo Mulholland, if you are not an ex-pupil, or a relative, or an old schoolfriend, or that listener, who remembers me.
But don't TELL me what I have to call myself!!!
(Fortunately, today is likely to have been the last time that I've seen that hybrid name, in print.)
If we had not migrated to Australia, like my father I would have progressed through: Jopie (as a toddler), Joop (as a teenager) to Jo (as an adult), when interacting with people. (My 'formal', i.e., FULL name would have remained: Johannes.) All that is not so unusual. (Because I was named after my father ~ and so many other ancestors ~ it was handy to be Jopie (at first) and Joop (later), when being called to dinner, or whatever, by my mother. We knew which of us she was calling. None of that was so unusual when Joop was such a common name, in the Netherlands. To me, it makes perfect sense that having been known as Jo Mulholland, since 1987 and introduced myself as that, is my perfect right. Apart from this small group of people, no-one else has ever insisted on choosing a name for me.
I guess, that another way to explain it is how women may have been known by their "maiden name", in school, and, when meeting up with old school friends will answer to that "maiden name", quite happily, while functioning, in general society, with the "married name". Film star, Doris Day was born Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff. Hopefully, once she'd become well-known, she wasn't introduced as, or named in print as: Doris Day Von Kappelhoff. Hopefully in general society, she was allowed to be Doris Day and when visiting her aunties and uncles (or whoever) she might have been called by the original name.
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