Backbencher

The first lecture was about the Aborigine and Maori people. We learned about their backgrounds, how they lived before Europeans, how they reacted when the Europeans arrived, and the war that when down between the people. When imagining the Australian outback with the sun beaming down on the kangaroos, I hear the didgeridoo. It is most unusual looking instrument that produces the most unique sound. I definitely didn’t think that the song sang by Kurongk Boy and Kurongk Girl sounded at all like Australian music. But I did like that song, it had a nice beat. With it being 45 degrees today, January 26, 2006, I do believe somewhat what Tim Flannery had to say. It was this warm today because of global warming. And that is why California is burning and Okalahoma is flooding. The weather is very awkward all over our world not just in North Dakota. Someday we are going to run out of everyday things that we take for granted, so we are going to have to look for other options. Or we could change our ways now so that we won’t ever have to face that. But how do we get everyone in the world to help? If only we could all live like the Aboriginal people. They don’t care about escalades or Louis Vuitton. I thought that was pretty cool that when the Europeans offered their stuff to the people, they just weren’t interested. But poor Aborigine people one thing they did get was STD’s. I would probably be violent towards someone to if they gave my family a disease. But I am happy that I am not in their tribe because I want to be someone some day and I know in that tribe you are assigned a position in life at birth. But they seemed to be really smart people. I especially liked that they killed the Europeans cows to prevent them from spreading on the land. That’s a great idea. That is too bad that Australia doesn’t have the best national story. It really bothers me that that white people tried to bread the Aboriginal blood out of the Aborigines. Damn Europeans.