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Liberton Christian School Learn about Life for Early Miners
Monday, 5th August 2013
The storage huts at the Chinese Village
I had a wonderful afternoon with Liberton Christian School today.
The year 7 and 8 students drove all the way from Dunedin, to come to Queenstown for a ski camp and to visit our Museum!
We started the afternoon looking at some artefacts in the museum - everyone couldn't believe we had some real Moa bones!
After the museum visit, we had a tour of the Chinese village and learnt about Ah-Lum and his store. Ah-Lum could speak both Chinese and English and became well respected in the community. Even on a mild Winter day like today, everyone could see and appreciate what difficult living conditions the Chinese had.
Finally the students went gold panning, and some even discovered some GOLD!
I hope you all enjoyed your visit today, and have a wonderful time skiing up here in central Otago.
Comment below about your favourite part of your visit.