Today was our last full day at our home. I say home because it is our second home. Being at Snowy I have made no new friends. None. I have gained a family. I have 22 brothers and 22 sisters whom will all have a place in my heart forever.

Tomorrow our bedrooms where we have shared secrets, laughed and cried, will become a blank canvas ready for new people to paint. There won’t be a basket of clothes in the laundry to give me an excuse to make an announcement about. The boy’s wing will probably always smell, but maybe the smell will lessen a bit. The big shed will hold lifeless equipment and the trailer…well it is always going to be broken (The trailer broke this term). It’s not that we learnt new skills; it’s that we can apply them when we get home. It’s not that you ran every morning; it’s that you ran with other people. We came to SRC as teenager; kids if you will, but these past 48 days have moulded and shaped us into young adults. We’ve learnt so much about ourselves, leadership, others and a bunch life skills as well. Coming to SRC was something I didn’t want to do. In fact I almost didn’t apply, but now I am extremely grateful mum made me do it. I have LOVED every minute of every day. Even caving and capsizing our canoes.

Everyone’s going to cry tomorrow and that’s fine. But don’t forget to smile because we have all been privileged with this incredible opportunity that will stay with us for our entire life. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

Bec - Mullauna College
Student Term 1 2013 Snowy River Campus