11/04/2026
A bundle of friendship - warm words, sharing lives, mutual encouragement and curiosity, exchange of token gifts….Our pen pal parcel is just about ready to depart! We are so grateful to Tucker Fresh IGA Carine who, after exhaustive generosity to community groups over Easter, gave us a box of Bluey chocolates for our pen pals 🤩🙌🫶. Amazing!! When our pen pals have worked especially hard on their sponsored English Language and Leadership Tuition classes, as a reward they might watch some Bluey episodes. And while they have many rich traditions for Easter including delicious dishes and wonderful community bonds, there are no chocolate egg hunts. Over the years they hear of ours with much curiosity. So Rivne Oblast friends, please enjoy our Bluey Easter treats! There is also a parcel with a couple of letters coming that got lost after travelling from Christmas Island to Ukraine, inexplicably got returned to Christmas Island, sent to Perth and is now returning to Rivne, Ukraine 😂😂. Maggie holds the Parcel with a carbon footprint to rival Artemis II (it was probably on board that too 🙄). Better late than never. 😆