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Weblog for HIST 381 at NDSUFriday, May 02, 2008
Lecture 12
Our final lecture of the year came from the University of Sunshine Coast. Joanne Scott talked to us first about her University and the different opportunities and settings that Sunshine Coast offered.
My favorite part of the lecture came right in the beginning when she talked about the campus and the college life there. It sounded like she really enjoyed her school, and she represented it well. I wish I was an education major or something similar so I could afford the time to study abroad. I wouldnt mind walking around campus with wild kangaroos, as long as they dont attack! And A giant Pineapple, sign me up! :-)
Then Scott talked about some of her work on the Brisbane Exhibition, or the Ekka. At first I was very confused as to why we were receiving a lecture on what appeared to be something very similar to a county fair. Scott continued to discuss the Ekka with great enthusiasm and when she got more in to details about the nature of the Exhibition I began to realize why she was so excited about it.
I enjoyed looking at the old pictures she had found of the Ekka. There is something so amazing about antique photos, just the ability to look back on time and have a glimpse of what it must have been like.
The first exhibition took place in 1876, having many opportunities to win prizes with different entree options. As Scott was explaining these she explained some of them, but when the phrase 'Kangaroo Slut' came up, she passed right over it like we would have an understand of what that was. I still dont know what a Kangaroo Slut, and I'm a little afraid to look it up on the internet!
The Ekka appears to be a great place to get good ice cream, but it is also more than that, like Isern sad, it showcases the best of Queensland, and sometimes shows the worst of it. When scott was talking about how the Ekka used to have Aboriginies on display, people would just stare at them, and throw random things, delighting in the strangeness of the "creatures" in front of them. I was shocked. I couldnt believe they had done that. "Race" issues are very strange.
Overall it was an interesting lecture. It's too bad Isern wasnt there for the last day, that would have been nice!
My favorite part of the lecture came right in the beginning when she talked about the campus and the college life there. It sounded like she really enjoyed her school, and she represented it well. I wish I was an education major or something similar so I could afford the time to study abroad. I wouldnt mind walking around campus with wild kangaroos, as long as they dont attack! And A giant Pineapple, sign me up! :-)
Then Scott talked about some of her work on the Brisbane Exhibition, or the Ekka. At first I was very confused as to why we were receiving a lecture on what appeared to be something very similar to a county fair. Scott continued to discuss the Ekka with great enthusiasm and when she got more in to details about the nature of the Exhibition I began to realize why she was so excited about it.
I enjoyed looking at the old pictures she had found of the Ekka. There is something so amazing about antique photos, just the ability to look back on time and have a glimpse of what it must have been like.
The first exhibition took place in 1876, having many opportunities to win prizes with different entree options. As Scott was explaining these she explained some of them, but when the phrase 'Kangaroo Slut' came up, she passed right over it like we would have an understand of what that was. I still dont know what a Kangaroo Slut, and I'm a little afraid to look it up on the internet!
The Ekka appears to be a great place to get good ice cream, but it is also more than that, like Isern sad, it showcases the best of Queensland, and sometimes shows the worst of it. When scott was talking about how the Ekka used to have Aboriginies on display, people would just stare at them, and throw random things, delighting in the strangeness of the "creatures" in front of them. I was shocked. I couldnt believe they had done that. "Race" issues are very strange.
Overall it was an interesting lecture. It's too bad Isern wasnt there for the last day, that would have been nice!
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