Aboriginal Diary

 

My Diary

 

I woke up in the morning and I was stiff and saw from sleeping on the hard ground next to the fire which had gone out and I was cold. I had fruit for breakfast with the rest of the tribe and then we set out to gather some more food for dinner in our coolamons with the rest of the women and girls. we went down by the river. I found some duck eggs and a crayfish. I went to my favourite berry tree to pick some fruit and I found a little lizard but I decided to leave it. After we had gathered enough food we headed back to camp and we left the older women to cook the food. We all went down by the river and had a swim and some of the older kids made a mud slide and we all had fun sliding down it. I climbed high in a tall gum tree and I found a kookaburra's nest with soft little chicks in it. We all drew in the mud with sticks, but I think my kangaroo was the best. We all had a competition to see who could find the most different types of feathers and I won. I watched the men fishing in there bark canoes and I could see the scars on the tree from were they cut them out. We all headed back to camp because it was getting dark. We had fish, crayfish, berries and possum for dinner it tasted great. After dinner my grandmother told me the old, old stores of the river. After that we all went to sleep on the cold, hard ground by the fire.