Lauren

HAY! I'm Lauren Jones a dedicated risk taker. I'm into anything that indangers my life hahaha. City Centre will be COOL!! I'm invigorated.. like @ Lady Northcote camp.. hehe

Day 1: Our first day of camp was great. Though there was a lot and I mean A LOT of walking involved, we had a good day, well I did anyway! We had the scavenger hunt and had to get the train back. We didn't get the tram because Renee forgot her metcard and had to buy one to get on the train. We went to the Cafe Notturno in Lygon St Carlton, the walk took forever. The pizza was pretty good but we waited around ages for pasta that we didn't even end up getting! But we had ice-cream before we left. Oh, and thank-god we got the tram back too. When we went to IGA, me and Bec got this huge Ice Break and tones of other stuff! It was pretty cool. The rooms were awesome, I'm in a room with Bec, i fell asleep in the corridoor waiting for her to hurry up and talk to her boyfriend aka Kurt bahahaha..

Day 2: Tuesday at City Centre was a pretty warm day. We typed up our research surveys and interviews. Got A LOT of clothing!!! Well the girls did anyway. We went to a talk about the Urban Seed. It showed us a whole different side to the homeless living on the streets of Melbourne. We listened to the people from Reach, me and Rebecca came in late (from shopping, naturally!) so I didn't really know what they were talking about to start off with. The program was meant to show us about having an ego and spirit, and was supposed to make everyone became more open and speak up. For tea we went to the Crown Casino, all the girls got dressed up whilst the boys just rocked up in shorts and t-shirt!. After tea there, we got these mini card things so we could get free games in the games room for two hours, it was great!

Day 3: Today was exiting, a lot of fun stuff happened! Firstly, we got to go to visit SYN 90.7 FM!!! We made our own mini radio stunt. Leonie and I were the two to start off the introduction. It was like, 'Hi I'm Leonie and I'm Lauren, and were from Wedderburn College!' Then etc, etc. We practically wrote out Joel, Glenn and Reece's cause they didn't know what to put haha. But unfortunately the mic I was using wasn't working real well so everyone who used that mic you couldn't really hear them speaking! Dang! We started off our surveys too, I was in the shopping group. But Reece, Leonie and I went off to do our surveys on the trams. While we where waiting for the trams we started surveying a few people. While I was asking one person,new Reece and Leonie got on a tram with out me! Not on purpose but I was like, 'What the, where'd they go!' Anyway once they got back to me we went on the tram, this tram driver didn't like us at all. He thought we were just annoying people, but the thing is we didn't exactly want to do the surveys we had to do it! (I mean personally I'd rather be shopping). We got off that tram and while we were waiting for another one this homeless looking guy walks up. We went to cross the road and crossed when the red guy was flashing, cause there was no cars. The homeless tough looking guy goes 'Don't worry that's not illegal, but what I'm about to do is, I'm about to slit someones throat.' and were just like ok!? And backed away!!! It was seriously freaky. Neally shatt meself. When we got back I had done 20 surveys! Leonie had done about 10 and Reece.. well he had done 2! Towards the afternoon we went to the aquarium, yeah we got to see all the fishies ha. The cool things were the tunnels that go under the aquarium and you put your head through and see the sea life from a different perspective. After that we went to the Crown Casino again. This time we went bowling and to the Lazer Lab! I'd never been in the Lazer Lab before, it was like an x-box game but you were in it! We finished off the day watching the huge tower-y poles with fire coming out of them. It was cold out so they heated you up well.

Day 4: Thursday started off catching up on a few surveys, I did another 10, so did Leonie and Reece did another 8. After that we all met up and went up the lifts to the Fitness First place. It was hard work according to Mrs Wright, Megan and I were the only ones doing it properly, everyone else had to stop and break but we did it continuously. I suppose we go to gymnastics so we're probably just used to it, thats all. Everyone got to go off and do what they wanted after that, I got a fair bit of jewellery, well cause I'd already bought a fair few clothes, we did that until we had to meet at Fed Square at 12:30. Then we walked up to the Lexus Centre where the best Australian Football team "Collingwood" is based! Yeah. Go the Pies! Haha, we listened to Ben Davies talk about the team and getting into the team and work and stuff. When we walked out there was a soccer team playing and guess who I saw? I saw the coach Mick Malthouse. It was cool, I was excited. I tried taking a photo on my phone but you can't really see the people playing soccego r very well! Then leaving the Lexus Centre we had 3 whole hours to do nothing! Me and Reece bummed around, feeding sour lollies to the birdies that came by and watched them hate it. I nearly fell asleep in Central Melbourne, there was one of those big red mat things in the middle of the shopping complex and I like callapsed on that for a while. Afterwards Glenn, Kurt and Kevin came over and we started doing front flips on the red mat. It was hilarious. Then I went on the tram back to Miami Hotel with them to drop off some stuff and grab some water, I was seriously dehydrated!.. We went and got tea when we got back to Central Melbourne, then we went up to the cinemas and watched this movie with Jack Black in it, it was funny but a bit kind of like it didn't go anywhere. So, anyway, that night Bronia, Joel, Sophie and I talked till like 4 in the morning and pushed the beds together and all fell asleep! Haha it was funny in the morning cause we all had to go back to our own rooms at 7 o'clock. Extreme tiredness the next day!

Day 5: This morning was a tired start as said in day 4. I put on my new clothes so I could show Ros when I got home! We went to the Vic market and with $30 to spare I managed to buy a white coat and a packet of lollies. Bronia, Sophie, Megan and I all got a pair of jockes each. It was a 4 for $15 deal. So that was fun. We had to take photos of funny stuff. The weird, wacky and the.. something else I can't remember. We got a few good pictures. One we got of was this bong shop, it was called 'Off ya tree bongs'! bahaha. We got back from the Vic Market and sat in the city centre room. We were supposed to be finishing off research work. But I couldn't be bothered so I just collapsed on one of the couches from exhaustion. The drive home was a breaze, all I did was sleep practically, I stole Sophie's pillow so it was all good for me!