We have been here for 18 days already. It has flown by and we have both made so many new friends that we will definitely keep in touch with when we leave.

Today Bonnie and I were student leaders for the first time here at Snowy River Campus. Bonnie and I are both in 1B together and both had Thinking and Learning 2 and Intro to Local Learning Project (LLP) with 1A. For thinking and learning we learnt revision on what we remember about the different quadrants about the brain and how we can improve on our quadrants that we avoid. As core 1 altogether we did a question game called Zooley which was really fun. First of all we received the questionnaire by ourselves and had no idea what to do. We were clueless and only had 2 minutes to complete 21 questions. Straight after that we got 4 people in a group that were dominant in the four different quadrants and worked on Zooley together. It was so much easier in a group than as individuals. One group which was Nick, Cameron and Ben got all 21 questions correct.

1:00 today was a great privilege for Bonnie, Tiger, Nick, Sarah and I to talk to Jasper which is in Canada. It is a school similar to ours but only goes for several days. Also there were students from Finland and Canada there. We talked about what Snowy River School of Leadership is about what activities, duties, weather, what leadership is about and what we can bring back from Snowy back home. It was a great experience as there hasn’t been many times that Snowy has talked to an overseas county.

The afternoon session today was LLP. The local project is teaching several students from a primary school and all the community here. We have 20 minutes to teach them about a topic that we choose in a team of 3 or 4 people. The LLP is next Wednesday that goes for the whole entire day. My topic is on bush tucker and we are going to have a funny role play with information about damper and then teach the primary students how to cook damper. Lastly, we will do a great quiz and see how well the students have been listening. Bonnie’s topic is on seals and whales. Their structure is going to be on a PowerPoint and then they will do some fun games like pin the tail on the whale and a fun, exciting quiz for everyone.

Bonnie and I were in charge of the paper tower activity last night. It was so fun. Core 1 was doing this crazy, fun activity.  There were four groups. Colac, East Doncaster, Kew and Bellarine. Colac and Kew had the best tower designs but there was a big debate with who actually won! Holly got a bit aggressive but it was so much fun!! Everyone laughed their heads off.

Bonnie and I had an amazing day being student leader and we can’t wait to do it again later in the term!!!

Lauren - East Doncaster and Bonnie - Colac