Prabh

On the 29th July, Wednesday of 2009 a Aboriginal man Boorie Pryor gave the Year 10 Killester girls a visit, to share his stories and teach us something. To show us things and talk to us. What i saw...I saw an Aboriginal man that spoke to us about his life and his childhood and the Aboriginal life in Australia. He showed us his achievments such as the novels and books that he has authored and published. We also got to see him play the digeridoo. One of the main things that i saw was his expression with his body language, and the way he expressed his words. What i heard...I heard his speech, about his stories, about his childhood, the rascism at those times, the way he explained everything about how it was for the aboriginal people late back and these days. I heard the message he was trying to get across to everyone. I heard many different emotions in his voice, such as the anger, the saddness and happiness. What i felt...I felt a very strange kind of emotion, it was all sorts of different emotions all welling up, in the inside of me. When he was talking about sad times, i was very upset. Overall, i was laughing and everything he said about anything, he had something funny about it. He really made everyone cry, becasue of all the laughing.
 * __Boori 'Monty' Pryor's Visit to our school[[image:http://www.rockhamptonregion.qld.gov.au/thumbnail.ashx?filename=~/Uploads/13978/13978-Boori_Monty_Pryor.jpg&width=300 width="178" height="170" align="right"]]__**

What i learnt...(i) The Traditional Aboriginal culture has many, many different and interesting type of stories, such as the 'dreamtime stories'. Stories that are true, and very emotional, and symbols represesting them, like treee's with painting that they drew, digeridoo's and weapons they might have used in their times of hunting. Their customs are quite different to our's, such as they have dancing and singing, but when they do their traitional dances and all, they paint their bodies and faces, and represesnt something. (ii) The Contemporary Aboriginal Culture these days, doesn't have such a good reputation, due to some of them having a very bad behaviour, due to them drinking beer, not being civilised people. Some of them, have a very good reputation, the ones that really have taken up the opportunity and see the need to have a bright future. The ones, that feel as if, everything is wrong, have made a bad impression on most of the Aboriginies. (iii) The ways that the European contact has affected