Day 9

June 16, 2011

During the Australia and New Zealand trip there was a lot of things I like and here are the top ten. Number 10; The Duck Tour, the Duck tour was fun because we learned how duck-boats were built and what they were used for, also the boat is also a car. Number 9; The Opal Museum, the Opal museum showed us how opal was created in the Earth, what types of opal are there, and they showed us a collection of opal. Number 8; The Hangi Dinner, it was a cultural dinner and it showed us many of the culture of the Maori people. Number 7; The Ogo,ogo is very similar to zorbing and the place had a stationary ride and it was a blast. Number 6; Luging, a luge is a non-motor go-cart and you go down a hill, it was pretty cool. Number 5; Meeting the New Zealand students, meeting the students and learning about how their school and grading system work is pretty neat. Number 4; Whaka, Whaka has some history of the Maori and we learned the properties of the geothermal mud and springs that are still used today. Number 3; The Sydney Aquarium, because we couldn’t go whale watching then some students and I went to the aquarium and saw all kinds of fish, some fish we saw were at the Great Barrier Reef. Number 2; The Sydney Wildlife World, there they had all kinds of animals including Kangaroos and Kolas. Finally number 1; The Great Barrier Reef, I saw so many types of fish and all kinds of coral, I even saw some squid, it was amazing. And those are my top 10 things I liked on the Australia and New Zealand trip.

We all took a train ride that could a few hours to get to, then we went and got some lunch. Then we took a bus to get us to this gondola that took us to the top of a mountain. After that a guide started talking about all the trees and animal that lived in the rain forest, and when we were all done we went to an Aboriginal park. At the park we saw a creation video about what the Aboriginal people believed and they showed us the tools they would of had and I got to throw a spear. After we got back to the hotel to spilt up into small group to go around the town, my group went an ate at a place talk Kani’s Restaurant, that is the same place where I had my kangaroo streak, and I had coral trout fillet and it was good. Then we started looking a round before we headed back to the hotel to get ready to go back to the U.S.