The Story So Far.......

This is our second last chance to go out and gather data for our projects. Part of the presentation and the end of the project has to show the results of a survey conducted while we are in the city. Most of us have developed the questions and planned where we will go to survey the people of the city. All we have to do now is go and do it. Wish us luck.


CHINATOWN
Once we'd finished the morning surveys and regrouped back at the Hub we set off to look at one of the cultural regions of the city, a place that has drawn Chinese immigrants since the gold rush. We had to walk down Little Bourke St and check out all the features of this unique part of Melbourne's streetscape.


MONDAY JUNE 2ND
Today we had another opportunity to go out on our own and gather information for our projects.
Our group decided to go out to the harbour in the docklands where there are lots of restaurants and tourists we could survey on out topic. It was a lot of fun aproaching people we didn't know and asking thier opinion of Melbourne. Going places by ourselves was a great chance to explore where we could and couldn't go without an adult telling us and giving us direction.

After we all returned from our info gathering we all grabbed some lunch. Lunch at the Hub means different things to different people. Some of us duck over to the convenience store and buy some take-away type rolls and sandwiches, some go to Gloria Jeans and get a bun and coffee, some of us bring something from home but by far the most popular 'Hub' lunch is 2 minute noodles, soooo easy and soooo yummy.
Once lunch was over we travelled in to the State Library. A most imposing and stately place that we'll probably appreciate more if we ever go on to study at Melbourne Uni or RMIT.
FRIDAY 30TH MAY
The day started with a trip to the Queen Victoria Market where we were able to walk around and see commerce and trade in action. Those of us looking at Fashion as a topic, and those looking at Food were especially interested in the goings on because it related directly to what we had been researching. The rest of us just had fun shopping and checking out all the people that come to a place like this.





SKYDECK
This is the name given to the tourist platform at the top of the EUREKA TOWER, the highest viewing point in the Southern Hemisphere. A great place to view the sprawl of Melbourne, and to appreciate the excellent job the original planners of the city did to create such a beautiful mix of green pockets intermingled with the buildings of the CBD and inner suburbs.