Sovereign hill camp reflection
My highlight of camp was that we got to dress up as characters from the Wesleyan school in the gold rush era and walk around. It was really annoying and fun at the same time because our teacher was strict and when I say strict I mean we had to hold our hands together at our waist and walk in a straight height order line. Our school was very clean and prestigious. Girls and boys did different things. For example for the girls free time we did sewing, skipping and throwing straw hoops around a pole, but for the boys they did colouring, throwing horse shoes around a pole and badminton.
The Wesley and school experience was amazing, we got to learn our 16 times tables which was really fun but really hard. We were told at the end of the second day that by the next morning we had to know our 16 and 12 times tables off by heart. We also had to read a poem in unison and read a saying by John Wesley as well. We had to do all of that because we had a visitor coming called Mrs Ash and if we impressed her Mrs Ash would get us anything we wanted for the classroom because she was rich and she was looking at the best school to give that gift to. We impressed her and she said she’s going to get us a rounded globe because the Earth is not flat and we wanted that.
The mines were really cool because in both we got to watch a movie. In the first mine we walked down a set of stairs and it got darker every single step we took. At the bottom we went through it like a maze and then there was a ladder. We climbed the ladder while the voice that was speaking on the speaker was telling us a story. Then we had to go on this dirt track which was still in pitch black and there was a waterfall in front of us and we had to get around the waterfall but it was really hard, and most people got sopping wet! Then we got to the part where it was kind of like a mini scene. There were ladders behind a barrier and loads of buckets of the water but then by surprise an image of a man turned up and it was showing the discovery of a big nugget called the welcome nugget. It was really cool how this hologram moved around and spoke like it was real life even though it wasn’t.
In the next mine we got in this cart and we sped down a hill into pitch black darkness again and then dim lights turned on and we went into the cave. There was a fork in the track and we chose the one going straight. A bit later on we came across a movie, it was a movie about how the Chinese are very badly treated. The movie was based on a true story about a boy and his brother and all the discrimination against the Chinese who worked in the mines. The mines were really fun and gave us lots of education of the gold rush era.
Did you go to sovereign hill and if you did comment how your experience was.
