Bondi Beach and Aboriginal Walk

What an amazing place to visit, the views and the walk to an actual place that aboriginal Australians lived. I was very impressed by the tourguide and all the information and knowledge that she provided us with. From the movies and articles I have read I never knew as much she told us from her view. The aboriginal people use everthing the earth has to offer and respect the earth in the best of ways. They were very resourceful when it came to making everyday tools like a paintbrush or comb.

Totums are an aboriginal way of keeping a family tree. I was facinated by the way that these had to be a land or water animal and needed to tell a story. Without the story it was useless to have a totum. The totums were a way of keeping track of differnt events and tasks that were happening. I found it terrible that people were destroying the land and the signs that are posted to protect the aboriginal site. Some people just don't care about the culture that is in a country. The tea trees would help to show when to harvest any crops that were planted. But they also showed when to stop harvesting when a flower from the tree landed on the ground.

As a future teacher I would want my students to be informed about something in the best way possible and I think that reaching out to the aboriginal people would be a good concept. I felt the pain in the tourguides voice at times when she was talking about being taken away and not being able to be with her family. I could not imagine being taken away like that. The piece of diversity is the best there was to see so far, becasue I was able to see first hand how this group of people lived and trained their young. I feel horrible about what happened to this large group of people, and I feel that it took way to long for something to happen about it. I did not realize that this was still taking place until the 1960's and later. I had thought it ended or was discreate until the 1900's. I am happy for the aboriginal people who still act and participate in different activities associated with their culture.