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Sunday, 07 September 2014 00:00

Ruminations

Fresh crêpes, cobbled streets, photo booths and Parisiens smoking with cool refinement. Polished marble floors with a glassy sheen, wrought-iron lattices and metro stations flashing by in lights of dull grey. These are the things I remember about Paris. As soon as the Young Ambassadors touched down on French soil, we entered a place where history and modernity walk alive in the streets.

 

Our first week of the tour was a whirlwind of tourist attractions and grand military parades along with...

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Sunday, 31 August 2014 00:00

The Treatment of Conscientious Objectors in New Zealand - Wanganui Detention Barracks

Enrolment requirement form issued in 1916 (lists what will happen to those who don’t enlist)
How were objectors treated in New Zealand?

Treatment of the Objectors – Wanganui Detention Centre

The policy implemented in which the objectors were treated by was extremely harsh with victims suffering brutal acts affecting them all physically, mentally and emotionally. 

—The grounds of the Wanganui Detention Barracks were often nicknamed the ‘slaughter yard’ with evidence of blood splatters displayed throughout the yard. Those who refused to co-operate were pushed, pulled, kicked and...
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Thursday, 07 August 2014 00:00

Baradene College Commemoration Assembly for the Outbreak of the First World War

Baradene College Commemoration Assembly for the Outbreak of the First World War
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Sunday, 08 June 2014 00:00

A Family Story

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Bonjour tout le monde!

 

Malheureusement Mai était un mois très occupe pour moi. J’ai eu beaucoup des activités de mon école et à cause de ça j’ai été très retard aven mon blog. Pardon à tous, et j’espère je suis plus de organise pour Juin !

Je veux un moment pour remercier le gentil peuple de ma communauté pour le support et la encouragement ils ont offert. En particulièrement je voudrais remercier La Cloche ; un café français  de Wellington pour leur patronage. Ils ont été très généraux...

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Thursday, 05 June 2014 00:00

Connecting with my Community

Private Donald Wallace MacNamara

4th June

 

This evening I met a man named John MacNamara. His uncle Private Donald Wallace MacNamara, was killed in the Battle of the Somme, only 6 days before my great-great-grandfather James Livingston. Pte MacNamara has a burial at the Caterpillar a Valley Cemetary, where Livingston has his memorial. John read in the Manawatu Standard article about the Young Ambassadors Tour, that we will be visiting the Caterpillar Valley Cemetery during the trip. He contacted me through my school, and...

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Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:00

Literature and War!

Literature and War!

 

Bonjour!

 

 

Who is this man?  The dusty kaki coloured shirt framing a tanned face and the blanched periwinkle blue of the sky in behind the camel brown tent all suggest a war. But, which one? Perhaps it doesn’t matter as much as we might think...

 

This man is novelist, Tim O’Brien, during his service in Vietnam, lasting from 1969-70. I am currently in the midst of reading his most critically acclaimed novel, “The Things They Carried,” which, like this photograph, presents an aspect of...

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Tuesday, 13 May 2014 00:00

C’est une découverte capitale!

C’est une découverte capitale ! J’ai beaucoup d’informations maintenant au sujet de mon arrière-grand-oncle (Cornelius). J’ai envoyé un email à l’oncle de mon père, qui s’appelle Pat Keppel. Je savais qu’il avait travaillé comme officier de police et il est intéressé par l’histoire de la famille. Pat est de la côté de la famille de Cornelius. Je suis très reconnaissant à Pat pour son aide.

 

It’s a breakthrough! I now have lots of information on the subject of my great great uncle...

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Tuesday, 18 March 2014 00:00

Gaining Insights from WW1

 

Merci!

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Monday, 17 March 2014 20:45

Would I die for my country?

Transcript:

"Bonjour à tous ! Mon nom est Lucy Parsonson et je suis un jeune ambassadeur ! OK, pour me présenter d'abord, voici quelques choses à propos de moi : alors, j'ai dix-sept ans, je vais au Birkenhead College, je suis un quart Ecossais, et je suis née en Nouvelle Zélande mais j'étais déjà allée à l'étranger, à Rarotonga.

Comme loisir j'aime regarder les gens dans les lieux public, comme dans la rue et sur le transport public. Je m'amuse devenir qu'est-ce qui passe dans les vies des...

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