Day 2: Hume Weir

GOLD Participant: Robert (Young Person).

We all got out of bed between 7am & 7.30 for the day. We had breakfast and Frank, James, Davo, Jasmine and Paul went and loaded the sheep into the ute so Frank can go into the Wodonga markets.

Then James and Frank went into Wodonga whilst everyone else came back to the house. Once they were back we finished breakfast and sat in the living room and planned the day.

We planned to to document eight themes that Bronwyn had wanted us to do. They were shelter, refugee, love, friendship, food, water, animal and loneliness. We had to document them using the sources of photo, video and sound.

We headed off to the butcher in Wodonga but ended up in the wrong one which was on the main street. We then rang Graham who is a farmer in Boree Creek who sends his saltbush lamb there. We did a tour of the butchery and took some photos and interviewed the butcher Michael.

After that we went up the main street of Wodonga. Holly and I bought some coffees and stopped at the Red Cross op-shop which we linked to the theme of “shelter”. I have no idea what the other people did though because I was not with them.

After that we headed went to Paul’s Great Grandma’s house. After Paul visited his Grandma and Great Grandmother we headed back to the farm for lunch.

For lunch we had different types of salami’s from the butcher. After lunch we went out the back and interviewed Frank whilst he was getting rid of some dead sheep.

After that we went and fixed some of the fences

and burnt some trees.

After our little burning session Frank and James in the cabin of the ute drove us (Savvy, Paul, Davo and Jasmine who were on the back) around the farm over some hills and down some hills.

Once we had finished we went back to the house, had some afternoon tea and then discussed the themes from this morning.

Once we had finished our discussion we went to the Hume Weir Wall and did some photos, sound recording and video recording.

Once we got back we had to bring some wood to the verandah for the fire. We all took turns looking after the lamb who had lost its mother. We fed it milk and gave it lots of cuddles.

We then had dinner with Ray who is a farmer near Frank’s farm.

After dinner Jasmine did the washing up whilst Davo, Ray, Frank, Bron and myself had a yarn at the table. Lucky Me had to convert some Imperial measurements into metric for Bron.

Then we sat in the living room whilst I wrote this blog and everyone else did their stuff. James showed us photos he had taken of the stars.

Robert Brewer
GOLD Blogger
22:40 completed
30/4/08 (Day Two)