Today we didn’t have the most interesting of days as we did our passport and CLP, so nothing outdoor or exciting. One of the groups though went on their second expo, a three day camp sort of thing because they get dropped off somewhere and then they hike over Mount Raymond and then they get into a river which they canoe in and then when they have canoed they go hiking up to a paddock and camp there. The next day they hike back to the canoes and canoe further down the river into the snowy and then they walk up to a place and go camping there. After they have camped there for the night they go back to the canoes and then they canoe all the way down to frenches narrows, a place where we swim, and then they dump the canoes there for the next group (Us) and then they walk along the beach all the way back to campus. So when we go we will go the opposite way and we will be able to get in the canoes at frenches narrows and then we do the same thing that they did except in reverse to what they did, we leave on Thursday.  

Also one of the group’s today did surfing, my roommate was in that group and he said that the waves were so big that he struggled to get out to the right place to catch them.

Everything has been cool here at snowy; everyone is getting along and starting to become really, really good friends. We all socialise after Dearr by playing different sports and so that is really cool. We are now on the last few weeks of the program and I can’t believe how fast it has gone.

Tom-Swifts Creek

Today was another busy day at Snowy!

We said goodbye to our 1A buddies who have taken off on Expo, surfed, did Community Learning Project work and CPR scenarios. Everyone is really getting along fantastically and we are finally distributing the Milo evenly!! Our community walk was a little disjointed as everyone started at completely different times, but we all enjoyed ourselves. Parent visiting weekend may be over, but the cake eating has not! Yesterday we had passionfruit sponge cake for Leo’s birthday and in a few days time we will be having more for Shari’s birthday! CAKE!!!!! Everybody says hi to all you web-surfers out there and I hope you are enjoying our blogs!

By Leo - Swifts Creek #14 woooo!

Today 1A got back from their second expo. It was a big journey.
We hiked to canoes on the first day then canoed to our camp site, I canoed with Tom. We camped with cows in a paddock. On the second day we canoed all day, I canoed with Mr. Quin (I got to sit back and relax most of it haha jokes). That was a hard journey that day because everyone was sore from paddling all day and a few of us were burnt. We played with the vortex a lot, whistled in the canoes; it was a lot of fun. When we finally got to the angling club it was a relief, but that was not the end of our second day. We canoed across from the angling club to the small island in the middle and that’s where we set up camp.

It’s the halfway point all ready and so far everyone is having so much fun! Parent visiting weekend was so good. I think everyone enjoyed seeing their family and eating LOTS of junk food!
So far we have been surfing, canoeing, we have been on our first expo, we’ve been on an indigenous walk, we’ve been swimming in the Yeerung, we have been bike riding, have done two HDTV link up’s with the other two campuses, but most of all we have been having fun!
Another activity we have done is the Marlo challenge. We were very enthusiastic about the whole thing. There were some pretty crazy outfits and some pretty crazy group names but overall it was a lot of fun...First, second, third and fourth were really close. 4th: The Nerds 169; 3rd: Fluro Emo’s 170; Fluro Hippiez 171 and 1st place was the Funkidichopz on 172...