May
25
2005
In about 5 minutes, I am leaving for my pick up stop for the mini bus going out to Goodooga. Over the next week, I’m travelling out to the Lightning Ridge area, on a social justice Aboriginal Immersion program.
Completely unprepared, having never met any of the 20 or so people who I was travelling 750km with to a town who’s name I’d never heard, to experience one Aboriginal community for four days, I put the last few things in my bag, toothbrush and wallet, put it in the back of Dad’s car, and got driven up to Springwood.
The trip, run by the Edmund Rice Centre, was a great experience and I’d recommend anyone interested in social justice given the opportunity to go to definitely take it up.
I’ll hopefully write a bit more about it sometime