Did you know that 10% of the world’s population owns 90% of the world’s wealth?

This is one of the mind blowing facts we learnt yesterday as for we put ourselves in the shoes of the less fortunate. At lunch time we got put into random groups that represented the wealthy and the less fortunate. There were 4 wealthy people who got a three course meal and a fully dined table and there were 5 henchmen who sent the less fortunate people into jail if they complained about the food and there were 2 waiters who served the fortunate people.

The rest of us were the less fortunate - we had to sit on the floor in our “families” with our “house” made out of butcher’s paper. Alex and I were a family and between us we had to share 1 bowl of rice that we ate with our hands. This was a huge shock to the whole community and it was a real eye opener to how lucky we are.

It was surprising to see how many people complained but for many people around the world this is their everyday life style.

Alex and Ellie

Taylor:

I’m Taylor from Dromana College. Today I was student leader with Daniel and we did a fantastic job working together.

The day started with a call to the other 2 campuses, we discussed our personal goals, community goals and what our highlight of the past 24 hours was. The highlight of my past 24 hours was passing my CPR exam. Daniel and I came to the agreement that our community goal was that we would try to get everyone to do their own duties as an individual, without being asked. ...

Daniel:

I’m Daniel from Lakes Entrance Secondary and today I was student leader with Taylor. We started our day with a link up to the other campuses and we stated our personal goals, community goals and our highlight of the last 24 hours. My personal goal was to learn a lot about the indigenous culture of the area on the indigenous walk and my highlight was caving. ...

We were student leaders over parent visiting weekend which was a very easy job. We both enjoyed our weekends and seeing our families. 

It was great to be able to get out and relax with them by the beach.  It was a fun and enjoyable. It’s good to be back at this school though and being able to see all our friends and hearing about how their weekends went.  It was really great to get back into the swing of things at school and continue our experience at Snowy.

Today was a rather sad because everyone was tired and missed their families.  Everyone is keen for the second expo which is coming up soon; at the moment 1A is on expo. We are sure that they are having fun and it is definitely way quieter without them here.

By Jamie and Darcy

Yesterday it was both our second turns of being Student Leaders.

We had to really step up our mark as we had Marlo Primary School students came here for our LLP (Local Learning plan) day.

The day ran really smoothly with all the children enjoying themselves and also gaining a little bit of knowledge about their local surroundings. Both of us really enjoyed being role models for the students as some of them might even get the opportunity to attend a Leadership School just like us. It was a little more hectic for both of us considering we have only ever had to lead our community but with everyone else being here it made it a more challenging, but yet a fun and enjoyable day for everyone.

By Tom - Swifts Creek School & Chelsea - Parkdale Secondary College