Narrative

This is my first attempt at the narrative that Dan, our tutor asked us to write:


Once we got off the bus we could immediately see out over the Brisbane River, we walked alongside it and underneath the Story Bridge until we came up to this large building in front of us. we walked inside and were greeted by a lady and a man who introduced themselves and welcomed us to the centre. They said that they were our guides/teachers for the day and to follow them through to the first exhibition hall - The Biodiversity and Endangered Animals Hall. We walked through and immediately saw all of these dead animals everywhere - some I recognised but others I didn't. As we kept walking slowly through the exhibition we suddenly saw this large room in front of us and were instructed to walk in - inside was a large aquarium filled with hundreds of fish! After looking through the exhibition for a while and reading about all the ecosystems that exist and this thing called biodiversity, we walked up this large staircase, along/down a hallway that was all glass on one wall so that you could see out over the entire river and then into this smaller room where we all sat down and started learning about biodiversity and the endangered animals of Australia and the world. After that we went back downstairs and outside to a large open courtyard area filled with lots of trees and greenery, after learning about all of the ecosystems and the environment we then go to plant some seeds and plants into this large garden. The teachers then told us that it was time for the next presentation so we sat down outside among the trees and this man appeared in front of us with this amazing animal (insert endangered animal) he talked about its rare chance of survival after having the species almost wiped out after the most recent bush fires / floods and it was really interesting. After that we moved over/into another outside area/inside room and had our lunch - we then got to play on this amazing playground that had natural disaster style equipment / big fake rain forest style playground/ incorporate floods. After playing around and eating lunch we walked past this large wall that looked like it was made entirely of plants/ trees and through to the next large space which the teacher told us was the climate change and natural disasters hall. After walking around this huge room for a while e walked into a smaller one and the room suddenly began to shake like an earthquake it was so cool
we were then told that that is what it would feel like to be in an earthquake and what to do. We moved upstairs into another similar classroom to the one earlier that although this one had a huge screen and was really dark - we watched a movie about climate change and what is happening to our environment and how we can help (similar to Al Gore's documentary but for kids) and then had some talks about the natural disasters in Australia and the world which are a result of this. We walked back downstairs and out along the front of the building through many trees. It was a really great day I learnt so much and the building was amazing!