Our awesome experience (by year 10 students Chantelle & Sheona)
Hello to everyone, this is Chantelle and Sheona.
We are the year 10 work experience students and we have been working here for the past two days on the archaeological dig. We will be here for the rest of the working week.
Ohh my, and what an awesome two days it’s been so far! We started on Monday the 14th this week. We did many jobs, and our first was actually being in the dig for about two hours, giving it a good go. It was difficult and so very different, but WOW… it was worth it! We learnt so many new techniques, especially with how to use the Mantic! At first, we were afraid we would endanger the lives of the people around us… we weren’t too handy with it at the beginning, let me tell you that… then eventually we found we could do a decent job; or so they say… [=
We are so lucky to work in a place like this, the people here are so great and supportive, and they would help us out with anything they could. Then just after working in the dig, we were supervising the wonderful school students who just happened to come from our school, Clontarf High and other schools like Humpybong Primary, they had all different grades come and might I say, all the kids were delightful. These wonderful kids really helped brighten up the days, thank you guys!
Most of the things we’ve done we weren’t expecting! There is such a great variety of things to learn here. We learnt anything from childcare, speeches, Archaeology, museum studies, labour work, and a small tour like activity with the students, cleaning up hahaha, and of course, blogging! You have to love blogging!
Not only did we learn all these great things, but also we were in such a great environment to learn in the first place. The experience we’ve gained here in this awesome museum and the experience yet to come is something far more constructive and useful then most other places we could have gone to. For us this is like a big bonus package, getting better and better. We’re very lucky and it’s been such a pleasure to work here.
P.s. The food was great!
from Chantelle and Sheona, Tuesday, 15-09-09.
