The Oral Presentation

The Party of the end of 1st semester

Excursion to The Rocks

Harmony Day

Harmony Day is an event held across Australia on 21 March, coinciding with the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Harmony Day is an Australian Government initiative run by the Diverse Australia Program, administered by the DIAC that deals with cultural, racial and religious intolerance by promoting respect, fairness and a sense of belonging for everyone.
Harmony Day is a day to celebrate a commitment to harmony and mutual respect in a culturally diverse nation. The event's major objectives are focused on reducing racial prejudice and intolerance in Australia.
We celebrated Harmony Day in the TAFE on 24 March. We sang Australian Anthem together.
Then students from different countries told about their immigration’s history. Some of them sang national songs. Most of all I remembered song the student from China. He had has very strong voice.
All students brought different kinds of national food. It was very interesting to taste the delicious food from around the world.I think this day is very useful to explore the characteristics of different cultures. This helps to overcome the stereotypes and attitudes that is a necessary factor in a variety of Australian lives.

The Royal Easter Show - Sydney

Easter Show is Australia’s largest annual events in Australian culture. It combines innovation, heritage, education and entertainment. The show currently attracts one million people per year. The Sydney Royal Easter Show usually lasts from 1 to 14 April.

The Easter Show is held at Sydney Showground in Sydney Olympic Park. Sydney Showground is conveniently serviced by bus, train, ferry and taxi services. You can catch train and get to Olympic Park and also you can use regular Sydney Bases, Liverpool to Parramatta and Sydney Ferry services.

In 2010 ticket's prices were:

Adult - $33

• Concession card holder - $26
• Person with a disability - $22 (plus one carer admitted free)
• Child (4 -15) - $22 (plus school aged children over 16 years with an ROA School Pupil ID card)
• Child (3 and under) - FREE

Each year hundreds of businesses benefit from participating in Australia’s largest marketing event with up to 900,000 visitors and an estimated $76,000,000 spent over 14 days.

You can see different pavilions, such as:

• Home Garden & Lifestyle
• The Zone
• Fashion & Style
• The Woolworths Fresh Food Dome
• Craft Corner
• World Bazaar
• Heritage Lane
• Sport and Adventure Alley
• Around the Grounds
• Kids World

There were some epic adventures on the carnival rides this year. In 2010, the rides were bigger, faster, higher. Many adults and children enjoyed Easter Show.

There were amazing Carnivals during Easter Show: Kids Carnival and Coca-Cola Carnival.

Admission to all rides was by coupons, not cash.

1 Coupon - $1
20 Coupons - $20
40 Coupons - $37
70 Coupons - $60

Senior citizens are the big winners at this year’s Sydney Royal Easter Show with two days full of amazing value and tailor-made entertainment.

Highlights for seniors

• Entertainment in the Big Top Amphitheatre
• Complimentary tea and coffee served between 9 and 2 at the Big Top Amphitheatre, courtesy of the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW
• NSW Seniors Card will be giving away free sample bags for the first 10,000 NSW Seniors Card members through the Show gates.
• Bring your grandkids along! On Seniors' Days, NSW Seniors Card holders can ride free with a paying child on all rides in the Carnival areas between 9.30am and 5pm, except for the Sling Shot.
• Purchase your ticket online during the pre-sale period (February 1 to March 18) and you receive a 10% discount on the standard ticket price, for a total of $23.40 each, Tickets purchased at Australia Post, CityRail, buses or after the pre-sale period ends cost $26.00

Food & Shopping

There were a carnival of cuisines, a festival of flavours and a shopping spectacular in store at the 2010 Sydney Royal Easter Show.

Woolworth's Fresh Food Dome for amazing products, cooking demonstrations, celebrity chef events and the chance to try some delicious creations from the kitchen whizzes.

Royal Deli for a mouth-watering array of cheeses, condiments, preserves and dips, all medal-winning products from the 2009 or 2010 Show.

The name of the lane around the NAB Arena is Heritage Lane

http://www.eastershow.com.au/essential/show-maps.html

The Animal Walk starts on The Sunday Telegraph and finishes on Domestic Animals

Graze Stage

There was also a musical mega festival, a cultural cornucopia happening at the Graze Stage in 2010. It included several events: Country Ceremony, Show School Bands, dance, cultural and martial arts troupes, 7 Street from New Zealand and Suruky from Bolivia, and also Police Force Band.

TAWFA Fashion Parades

This event was a showcase for the luxury, the style and the supreme versatility of the superfine Merino wools that are the pride of Australia’s flocks.
Students from secondary and tertiary institutions competed for recognition and substantial prizes.

The 2010 Australian Wool Fashion Awards Presentation Night took place on April 7 in the Cox Pavilion.

Location: Fashion & Style Pavilion H14

Arts Pavilion

Associated with the Show, and displayed in same pavilion as craft competitions was an Art Show with classes for Rural subjects, Still Life, Watercolour and Figurative painting. There were competitions for sculpture, photography, silverwork and ceramic.

Planet Cake was sponsoring the Most Creative Cake Competition, providing prize money to the winner as well as the opportunity to attend one of their exclusive courses in cake decorating.

Kids World.

Pass through the laughing clown’s face to enter a world of fantasy, adventure and fun designed to appeal to kids under 12. Also some of the latest interactive games, toys, food products and scientific wizardry as Professor Jellybean conducted his experiments. The kids might even get to meet SCOOBY-DOO™ Hanna-Barbera ©

The entertainment culminated with firework.

Volgograd City

Hello. My name is Olga Volkova. I am Russian. I was born in Volgograd. It is a very beautiful city situated on the Volga river. The Volga is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed.

One of the famous sights of Volgograd is Mamayev Kurgan. The city was made famous for its resistance and extensive damage during the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II. Mamayev Kurgan (Mamayev Hill) is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in Southern Russia. The name in Russian means "tumulus of Mamai". The original Mamayev Kurgan was a Tartar burial mound 102 meters high, the current formation is dominated by a memorial complex commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 to February 1943). The battle was a decisive Soviet victory over Axis forces on the Eastern front of World War II and arguably the bloodiest battle in human history. At the time of its installation in 1967 the statue of The Motherland Calls formed the largest free-standing sculpture in the world.

One of the interesting places there is Volgograd Hydroelectric Plant stands a short distance to the north of Volgograd.Today the station is the largest in Europe. It consists of a 725-metre long, 44-metre high concrete dam that crosses the Volga river. Supporting it is a 3250-metre long landfilled dam with a maximum height of 47 metres. The Station also offers railway and road crossings of the Volga.

Volgograd Bridge is a concrete girder bridge over the Volga River in the city of Volgograd, Russia. The bridge and adjacent flyovers are 7,110 meters long. The bridge, which was inaugurated October 10, 2009 after 13 years of construction, is a key part of a planned 30-kilometer highway route that also includes a future bridge over the Akhtuba River. Currently, a single span (a second is still under construction) connects Mamayev Kurgan on the right (western) bank of the Volga with the road to Krasnoslobodsk on a spit between the Volga and the Akhtuba. It is the first bridge over the Volga in Volgograd Oblast; previously, the only automobile route over the river in he region passed over the Volga Hydroelectric Station dam.

Recently the Volgograd bridge that sent cars into the air as wind gusts shook the seven-kilometer construction last mounth has not been damaged and will be reopened last week. It was called "dancing bridge".

In Volgograd you could injoy of sundown on the Volga river in the Summer or enjoy of amazing pictures of ice and snow in the Winter.