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Authors: Elizabeth Fensham
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Point Impossible to save a man and then try to save a woman, he wasnât thinking of a reward or how he could use those people. Charlie nodded, âYeah. But was it worth the risk of dying at the age of sixteen?â
âThatâs called being a hero,â I said.
âBut what if youâve just gone and saved someone you actually wouldnât like if you got to know them?â
âAt least he got his photo in the paper,â I said.
âThatâs a pathetic answer,â said Charlie. Then he said he was going to go look for Macca and de Grekh because, âat least I can have an intelligent conversation with them.â
I donât care what Charlie says. That Lachlan is the bravest kid Iâve ever heard of. Iâd like to meet him. And Iâd like to ask him what it is that makes some people show that much care for strangers. And would he do it again?
Well thatâs it. No more journal. As long as I get a Pass, Iâm happy.
Imogen Webb: Monday
Iâve found my hero. Actually, it was Mrs Wilgard from the library who suggested him. Canât wait to tell Mustafa, Oliver and Ruth. Itâs just such an incredible story. How come weâve never been taught about this guy and his adventure at school? Iâll just have to make sure heâs known about again.
Name: Ernest Shackleton
Nationality: English
Age at time of adventure: 40 years old
Occupation: Adventurer
Goal: To be the first to cross the continent of the Antarctic
Dates of expedition: 1914â17
Okay, I bet people might think Oh, yawn. Just another adventurer. But beginning to end, Iâve never heard of an adventure like it. For starters, if you were going to take over thirty men to the Antarctic for a life endangering exploration, how would you choose them? All my ideas about this were blown out of the water when I read how Shackleton selected his team.
Shackleton asked every single interviewee, from scientific and medical people to tradespeople, if they could sing! If they actually could sing and they showed they had a sense of humour, they were chosen. Apparently, Shackleton reckoned these peopleâs references told him enough about how good they were at their jobs, but he was looking for more than skill.
When I told Dad about this, he laughed his head off, but he said he could see Shackletonâs logic. If you can sing and you have a sense of humour, you are probably going to be a cheerful, optimistic sort of person. A team of positive people are more likely to cooperate and succeed. Are you listening, Mr Quayle?
Iâm just so into this guy itâs going to be hard to know what to leave out. If you were a Macca type, you might just put Shackletonâs journey down, because it actually failed. Their ship got stuck in pack ice which is like ice floes. They actually never made it onto shore.
Shackleton and his men spent ages on this jammed ship waiting for spring to thaw the ice. Talk about bad luck. The ice started to kind of eat the ship. I mean it began to squeeze the living daylights out of the ship. It started creaking, then it started leaning over. Eventually, Shackleton told everyone to get stuff off the ship and abandon it altogether. Lucky he decided that. The ship ended up completely destroyed and in bits. Gone. Finito.
Next step was to take some small open sailing yachts they had on the old ship and get to a place called Elephant Island. There was nothing but rocks and stones on the island. It was freezing cold and the constant winds were up to 100 mph. The men built these low stone walls and then upturned two of the small boats and used them as roofs over the walls. But all they had to eat was penguins and seals.
Lots of men got really sick. Gangrene was a big problem. The youngest person on the expedition, Perce Blackborow, was eighteen years old and had to have all the toes of his left foot cutoff. He was a stowaway. When Perce was first discovered, hiding in a locker,
âThatâs called being a hero,â I said.
âBut what if youâve just gone and saved someone you actually wouldnât like if you got to know them?â
âAt least he got his photo in the paper,â I said.
âThatâs a pathetic answer,â said Charlie. Then he said he was going to go look for Macca and de Grekh because, âat least I can have an intelligent conversation with them.â
I donât care what Charlie says. That Lachlan is the bravest kid Iâve ever heard of. Iâd like to meet him. And Iâd like to ask him what it is that makes some people show that much care for strangers. And would he do it again?
Well thatâs it. No more journal. As long as I get a Pass, Iâm happy.
Imogen Webb: Monday
Iâve found my hero. Actually, it was Mrs Wilgard from the library who suggested him. Canât wait to tell Mustafa, Oliver and Ruth. Itâs just such an incredible story. How come weâve never been taught about this guy and his adventure at school? Iâll just have to make sure heâs known about again.
Name: Ernest Shackleton
Nationality: English
Age at time of adventure: 40 years old
Occupation: Adventurer
Goal: To be the first to cross the continent of the Antarctic
Dates of expedition: 1914â17
Okay, I bet people might think Oh, yawn. Just another adventurer. But beginning to end, Iâve never heard of an adventure like it. For starters, if you were going to take over thirty men to the Antarctic for a life endangering exploration, how would you choose them? All my ideas about this were blown out of the water when I read how Shackleton selected his team.
Shackleton asked every single interviewee, from scientific and medical people to tradespeople, if they could sing! If they actually could sing and they showed they had a sense of humour, they were chosen. Apparently, Shackleton reckoned these peopleâs references told him enough about how good they were at their jobs, but he was looking for more than skill.
When I told Dad about this, he laughed his head off, but he said he could see Shackletonâs logic. If you can sing and you have a sense of humour, you are probably going to be a cheerful, optimistic sort of person. A team of positive people are more likely to cooperate and succeed. Are you listening, Mr Quayle?
Iâm just so into this guy itâs going to be hard to know what to leave out. If you were a Macca type, you might just put Shackletonâs journey down, because it actually failed. Their ship got stuck in pack ice which is like ice floes. They actually never made it onto shore.
Shackleton and his men spent ages on this jammed ship waiting for spring to thaw the ice. Talk about bad luck. The ice started to kind of eat the ship. I mean it began to squeeze the living daylights out of the ship. It started creaking, then it started leaning over. Eventually, Shackleton told everyone to get stuff off the ship and abandon it altogether. Lucky he decided that. The ship ended up completely destroyed and in bits. Gone. Finito.
Next step was to take some small open sailing yachts they had on the old ship and get to a place called Elephant Island. There was nothing but rocks and stones on the island. It was freezing cold and the constant winds were up to 100 mph. The men built these low stone walls and then upturned two of the small boats and used them as roofs over the walls. But all they had to eat was penguins and seals.
Lots of men got really sick. Gangrene was a big problem. The youngest person on the expedition, Perce Blackborow, was eighteen years old and had to have all the toes of his left foot cutoff. He was a stowaway. When Perce was first discovered, hiding in a locker,
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