A Crash Course on Creativity Assignment One

Getting to Know You

Team 15345 Kanae Quinn and Meng Jin

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Come See

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Cairns Gold Coast Sydney Melbourne Brisbane

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Why Come to Australia? Kanae and Meng Invite You to Discover…

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Cities Although Kanae & Meng live in Saipan and Shanghai, respectively, they have both traveled extensively in Australia, a diverse country offering visitors a wealth of scenery, history, culture, entertainment, wildlife and adventure. Kanae and Meng have both visited the cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Gold Coast, Cairns and Brisbane.

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Sydney enjoys a relaxed outdoor and beach lifestyle, combined with arts and culture, fine food and wine, nature and cosmopolitan shopping and nightlife. This is Kanae’s favorite city.

SYDNEY

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Melbourne is a well planned city with wide flat streets laid out in a grid. Renowned for its shopping, in the jigsaw of tiny laneways hidden behind the main streets you’ll find one-off boutiques, galleries, and hole-in-the-wall cafés, bars and restaurants.

MELBOURNE

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With superb golden beaches, including the world renowned ‘Surfers Paradise’, the Gold Coast is a mix of cosmopolitan lifestyles, theme parks, high-end boutiques, and some of Australia’s best sporting events.

GOLD COAST

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CAIRNS

Cairns is the gateway to Queensland’s tropical north and the Great Barrier Reef. Here, you are close to islands, coral reefs and the world’s oldest surviving tropical rainforest. 8

The warm tropical days and nights are perfect for enjoying Brisbane’s many attractions. Wander through the gardens at South Bank Parklands, Roma Street, Brisbane Forest Park and Portside Wharf.

BRISBANE

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Foods Who doesn’t like to eat? Kanae and Meng both like Thai, Italian and Chinese cuisine. In Australia, you can enjoy different types of ethnic delicacies from around the globe!

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These photos were all taken by Meng in Australia! Wouldn’t you like to taste them now? 11

Dining out or eating in… Meng and Kanae are avid cooks and bakers who like to try new recipes.

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Activities Kanae & Meng share a fondness for scuba diving, biking and dancing. Australia is considered paradise for diving the Great Barrier Reef and doing outdoor activities! 13

Completely surrounded by water and rich in islands and reefs, Australia is a diver’s dream. The waters shelter a treasure trove of marine life, with more than 4000 species of fish and the world’s highest diversity of sea grass. Swim with the giant, gentle whale shark on Ningaloo Reef or with sea-lions and dolphins on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula. Learn to dive on Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef – the world’s largest living organism. 14

Here, Meng is in Cairns diving the Great Barrier Reef with a friendly Napolean Wrasse!!!

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Kanae (on the right) spent a day touring Brisbane by mountain bike. She also spotted an interesting street sign about dancers while riding the trails.

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Appendix: Commonalities

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Commonalities Both Meng & Kanae Meng Kanae Isikeli Kanae's & Meng's Comments, Questions

Travel - Cairns, Gold Coast, Sydney, Adelaide Visited dreams to travel

Travel - Korea Seoul?

Travel - Hong

Travel-Fiji

dreams to

travel Visited Lives

Travel - Lives Visited

Travel - General

Enjoy travel very much to meet new

people, see new things

Favorites Both Meng & Kanae Meng Kanae Isikeli

Travel - New

Zealand Queenstown - favorite NZ

Travel - Italy Cinque Terre - favorite Italy Italy

Commonalities Both Meng & Kanae Meng Kanae Isikeli

Work Like Marketing Wish Profession

Work

Dislike monotonous routine work

like accounting Profession

Work Like IT Profession

Work Meeting new people

Commonalities Both Meng & Kanae Meng Kanae Isikeli

Sports Scuba , Biking, Dancing, Swimming

Hobbies Photography photobooks

Commonalities Both Meng & Kanae Meng Kanae Isikeli

Food Thai, Italian, Chinese easy food crab

Food Good cooks

Adventurous try different things

Commonalities Both Meng & Kanae Meng Kanae Isikeli

Class Goal

Meeting new people, productivity,

open mind, learning

If you were at a big party, would you be assertive and introduce yourself to as many people

there or just to a few? Why? My answer would be to meet just a few as I like to take the time to

get to know people in depth. I agree with you! I'd like to meet few people whom I really like.

We both enjoy traveling, meeting new people and seeing new things. Learning is important and

I try to learn something new daily. Your photos on flickr are great. If you had to pick one photo

that makes you feel great, which one would you choose? I can't choose!! I love all of them,

especially the film. i don't kown how it looks like when i took it, but after development, there

are so many suprises!

New Zealand is on my top 5 list of places to visit because of its amazing beauty and outdoor

adventures and we have friends there as well. Where is your next place you'd like to travel?

Why? America!!! wish i can go to USA before end of this year.

For the last 20 years, I worked as the Director or Sales & Marketing for resorts in Micronesia. I

enjoyed the creativity portion, meeting people and letting others know how wonderful the

resort was. I'm not that interested in accounting, either, because it seems a bit boring, but I

respect those who do it.

I'm a Advanced Diver but haven't been diving in years. My favorite dive locally is the Blue

Grotto, which is famous in Saipan. However, my favorite dive site in the world is Palau. It's

absolutely fantastic! For most of my travels in the last few years, I've made photo books to

share with friends/family.

It seems like we both like cooking and eating, a great combination! What food reminds you of

home? What do you like specifically about cooking? I like the fact that you can mix ingredients

to make something tasty. It's the combination of items that matter, not necessarily the items

individually. I like mix different ingredients together and creat new flaver like you!

*Isikieli’s comments were included as he came late to the forum.

THANKS FOR WATCHING. Australia is Awesome!

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