Excursion to Hawthorne Park

What a wonderful day! We had an excursion for international day for woman last Thursday.

I was a bit later to get MRC but luckily it was still on time. Everyone was waiting for beginning. A lady Deborah from Rockale Council reminded us of something else warning and some information before we left. It's the time about set out.

We caught a big bus and then met an aboriginal elder Max in Hawthorne Park, when we got there . He was very serious person and very friendly. Firstly he put on his head band, and then lighted the moss. After that he explained to us what the meaning was. He told us the smoking ceremony was a part of welcoming us to country. Later he complained us to come Australia didn't get the permission from Aboriginal. We came Australia such as a person was in some one's backyard but he was not got permission from the owner. I feel so sorry for it but we couldn't change at all. Luckily he had already forgiven us.

After a while Max took us to bush walk with him. It's so fun. We saw and learned lots of things. We saw couples of big and strange spider and beautiful gum-tree. And also I knew there are male trees and female trees for gum-tree. We saw grandmother tree which was more than 100 years old. What a lovely sight!

We went to a place latterly where we met a 'green' person Anthony with his animals. I called him green person because he wear a green hat, green shirt, green shorts and green bags. Firstly we saw a tiny basket made of branch. He wanted us to guess what it is inside. Wow!! It's a lovely animal possum with a ring tail. She was so cute. And then he showed four more animals to us. They were a green tree frog, a blue tongue lizard, a fox bat and a bird with tawny frog mouth. But unfortunately I forgot his name just remembered the bird liked to pretend its part of the tree branch.

We went back to MRC in lunch time. We ate lots of delicious food and didn't have any time to take photos.

What's an amazing day!!