Today was a very interesting and challenging day. It began at 6:33 in the morning as my alarm sounded and from there, I ate breakfast and was then called into the meeting room to help today’s student leaders. Everyone then met back at 9:00 for headcount and the student leaders Jess and Preston introduced themselves. Being a student leader is very tough as I had experienced the role the day before, so I could understand how they were feeling. My first class of the morning was Expo Skills, in which we learn skills that will help us throughout our Expo’s. It was going along well when we came to a fork in the road and had a discussion…..

As you may have guessed, the discussion was based around whether to turn left or right, and after a few minutes of chat, we turned left! After 5 minutes of walking, alarm bells were ringing in my head that we may have gone the wrong way, I voiced this but instead the team decided to continue. What eventuated was a 3km walk when instead (as our teachers have now told us) should have been a 150m walk if we had turned right!!! This treacherous walk included cuts to knees, smacks in the face from bushes, prickles from spiky bushes and the walk became a constant grind of energy. When we finally reached the road, we were glad to see there was only one way to go and this eventually led us to the lookout where we had Lunch. The walk back along the power lines was tough as well but we were now well seasoned professionals. After returning to campus we were able to chill and sing Sam a happy birthday song as today is his birthday! All in all today has been a great day and I can’t wait for the many more to follow!

Max - Diamond Valley College