A week has passed since the trip, and wow! What a trip. Two weeks of amazing memories, and unforgettable experiences. For me, the trip was a highlight reel; each day full of learning, emotion, discovery and of course, our honorary mascot Guillaume Miguel Hyboud-Peron. Guillaume was our bear, was shared amongst us, bought us together and was our French guide (originally from Indonesia) who took us on the tour of a lifetime.
I feel the best way to describe the trip, is by using the word...
Over the past month at Auckland Museum, a free exhibition was put together in order to re-discuss the controversies that were presented before the passing of the Military Service Act of 1916. My history teacher was the one who pointed me in the direction to this exhibition and so one weekend, I found myself attending this exhibition. It’s called “A Case for Conscription” and what I witnessed was a reenactment debate on the issues of whether or not Maori should be conscripted and whether or...
Ok so first of all, to explain the title: It's been over 3 weeks since I finally figured out what I'd like the topic for my project to be about but I never got around to posting about it because it was a double up as one of my history assessments. So forgive me, but I had to focus on that. BUT my untimely array of school obligations did not end there. Oh no it did not “=_= because following that, I had to prepare for preliminary exams which is this week, AKA just a stepping stone away from...
La semaine dernière
5 more days until we fly to France. I am feeling very excited and nervous at the same time! I can’t wait to go back to France and go there with a significant purpose. All i want to take with me on this trip is an open mind, i want to capture everything that will help me illustrate my project to people. From the French point of view, to the New Zealand point of view and German. I want to show people through my project that we are all human, they were human and no matter...
Salut!
Thank you to everyone who has helped out with fundraising, especially the Whakatane West Rotary and Harvey Norman Whakatane.
My project is based on a few of the soldiers from the Whakatane area and also sharing some information about the pioneer battalion at the Somme. Thank you to the Whakatane research centre, Sonia Edwards and Sarndra Lees from Auckland war memorial museum for assisting me with finding information.
However In this post i’m going to share the story of a...
I’ve known bits and pieces of my great grandfather’s story but yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down with my grandmother and her brother to uncover the full truth. My great-uncle undertook his own research in France a few years ago, following in the footsteps of his father, including the exact spot where he was wounded, according to field reports. He travelled to many of the places which I too will visit in fewer than two weeks’ time! Here is the story of my great-grandfather which I have...
The 7th Reinforcements leave Wellington for Suez on 9th October 1915.
(Image retrieved from http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C42912)
An overview of our project that hangs at the exhibition in the Queen Elizabeth II Pukeahu Education Centre at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington.
Baradene College students Olivia Mendonca and Genevieve Bowler with the Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key, at their exhibition at opening of the Queen Elizabeth II Pukeahu Education Centre at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park, Wellington, where the Shared Histories project by Baradene College of the Sacred Heart in Auckland and the French school Lycée Professionnel Jean Macé, in Chauny, France is on display.
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