Today the senior students went to the Immigration Museum. We participated in three different activities.

We did note taking in the Identity Exposition.  I learnt  . . . . .

• Our Identity is how we present ourselves to the world.

•  People have different markings that make them, them it shows other people that they a unique in there own kind of way. Different hairstyles, piercings and even the color of our skin, tattoos and birthmarks all help to announce the membership of a group and or faith.

• What we eat can also help distinguish our culture. We all eat different things and I guess that’s what makes us, us, But just because we eat different things, and look different, we are all one big family under Gods wing.

That’s a few of my notes I took  in my book.

Next we went and collected our passports, by the way they were fake ones that we could fill in with information, we explored the custom house and discovered how long The Indigenous Australians have been here compared to how long since the white invasion. Around 250 years ago the White settlers arrived in Botany Bay, Now known as Sydney Harbor NSW, But 4000 years ago is on average how long the Aboriginals have been here.

Finally we went for a walk outside seeing what things have changed since the past. We visited several places, one being The Queen Bridge Hotel we noticed how there were no buildings around the hotel on the picture we had but now that’s about all you can see building here, buildings absolutely everywhere.

So Melbourne has changed since the past dramatically and it would be easy to play a game  of spot two pictures of Melbourne now, Melbourne then. Immigration has become a huge part of Melbourne history and what is still shaping what Melbourne will be like in the future. I definitely recommend going to the Melbourne Immigration Museum