aboriginal+day

On Thursday the 24th of July an aboriginal family came to our school from Ballarat. They came to teach us year 9 and 10 about their culture and different aboriginals culture. Their names were Big Al, Tristan (pancake) and Leoni and they were very passoinate about their teaching and the culture. The day had 3 different activities, they were traditional dances (tought by Tristan), story/ history telling (taken by Big Al) and aboriginal panting (showed by Leoni). in the end i found that there wasn't many differnces between them and us because we pretty much do the same thing to survive.I found that value most of the same things as we do, being: family, friends, food, water, shelter, medicine and culture. I learnt alot from the 3 sessions especially the history and story telling. The day took place as follows. My first session was with Leoni she took aboriginal art i never new that you could tell a story from a panting. Tristan learning and practising the traditional dance moves. The dances were all about how the way an animal moves. My personal favourite that he showed us would have been the goanna because it looked really good. We then went into Big Al's session on story telling and history. i learnt so much in this session about my own country's history that I didn't know before. Such as I never knew that a didgeridoo actually meant a fishing festival and a didgeridoo as we know is actually called a ydakki in their language meaning noisy stick. After lunch all students took part in a small concert at the school using the dances we had learnt during the day and Big Al playing the didgeroo (ydakki). The 3 most important things that i will take from this day is to respect your elders because they will teach you alot, to not pre-judge and to not brag because someone we allways beat you long run. This was one of the best experience