Last December, on Christmas Day, I went on a once in a life time camping trip to Australia with my explorer unit. We were going for three weeks and four days. There were around eleven people from Bexleyheath and about twenty-four people from Yorkshire going. There were four girls from Bexley and only one girl from York whereas the rest of the people from England were male, including the leaders. There were over eight-hundred explorers from all over the world going to the Australian Venture, including people from Australia, Indonesia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Japan, Papa New Guinea, and England. Everybody had to camp in one massive field, which consisted of more sand than grass. By the end of the camp everyone had orange shoes, due to the fact of the red sand everywhere. We were camping at a place called Fairbridge in Perth, which is in Western Australia.
Around eight o’clock on Christmas Day, all but one person from the Bexley Explorers met up at a meeting point, and we all got a minibus to Gatwick airport. The drive was long but we kept ourselves entertained by talking about the trip and how much fun we were going to have doing all the different activities. We also took many pictures on the journey so after the camping trip we could look at the photos and remember all the good times we had. We got to the airport, and met up with the person that had come by car, and weighed our luggage. We had to wait a couple of hours before we got the flight but that was alright because had plenty to do, such as go duty free shopping, and exchanging our pounds, to dollars. When we finally got our plane tickets, and swapped our plane seats for ones that were next to our friends, we got on the Emirates aeroplane. W had to get a flight to Bangkok a...
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...tayed up until very late. On the last day in Margaret River we had to pack our bags and tents away and we got on the coach to Fairbridge. When we got back from our expeditions we met up with our friends and some of us went into town. We went to a place called Mandurah most of the days we were there and went to the shopping centre. It didn’t cost us any money to travel there because the bus was free which was good.
After the two weeks staying in Fairbridge we had to go back to Freemantle and stay there for another two days. We spent the two days there spending the rest of our Australian dollars, and playing table tennis in the hostel. At the end of the two days we got the coach to the airport and got a plane to Dubai. We then had to get a plane to Bangkok and at Bangkok airport we had to say goodbye to the northerners because they had to get a plane to Manchester.
The Australian Aborigines society is relatively well known in Western society. They have been portrayed accurately and inaccurately in media and film. Dr. Langton has attempted to disprove common myths about the infamous Australian society, as has her predecessors, the Berndt’s, and National Geographic author, Michael Finkel; I will attempt to do the same.
It was our fifth day in the Philmont Scout Reservation in New Mexico, the halfway point of the trek. I as the Crew Leader was responsible for the other 11 members of the crew, including 4 adults. I was in charge, and amazingly the adults rarely tried to take over, although they would strongly advise me what to do in some situations. Phil, with the exception of me, the oldest scout and the Chaplain for the trip, was my second. Together we dealt with problems of making sure everyone carried the right amount of stuff in their pack to who had to cook and cleanup each day. The trip had gone well so far, no injuries, and the worst problem had been a faulty backpack. As I walked I thought about the upcoming campsite. Supposedly this one had running water from a solar powered pump—so had the last night’s site but the tank was too low to use for anything but cooking because the of how cloudy it had been of late. But today was bright and shinny, and hot, so I didn’t think there would be a problem.
...uld find a mass of blood around the bottom of your legs and these would be full of leeches, dropping off and lying on your socks. But in these moss forests, where you couldn't see the sun, the roots of the trees are all covered in moss and the track was only root from root. If you were the last in the evening, and it had been raining for two hours, you were dead unlucky. The mud was a foot deep all the way along. [Don Simonson, 39th Battalion, interviewed on the Australia Remembers Pilgrimage to Papua/New Guinea, June/July 1995, http://www.kokodatreks.com/history/thekokodacampaign.cfm ]
Reynolds, H. (1976). The Other Side of The Frontier: Aboriginal resistance to the European invasion of Australia. Queensland, Australia: James Cook University
Ancient Aboriginals were the first people to set foot on the Australian continent, over 40,000 years or more before Colonization (Eckermann, 2010). They survived by hunting and gathering their food, worshipping the land to protect its resources, and ensuring their survival. The aboriginal community had adapted to the environment, building a strong framework of social, cultural, and spiritual beliefs (Eckermann, 2010).
“It’s difficult to recall the first time I went to Switzerland. The actual experience of flying across the ocean at a young age felt like journeying to a different world. That eleven-hour flight was such a tedious part of the very exciting journey ahead. I remember once looking out the window of the plane as we touched down and feeling such a deep comfort and contentment. I felt as though I was home. What awaited me were days of family and friends, hiking and exploring, and delicious food. It was always such a beautiful experience being i...
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