Day 6 – Wednesday May 31
The day started with our morning commutes to TAFE either by bus or being dropped off by host families. The nursing students traveled to the Shellharbour Campus where we sat in on lectures about clinicals for first block nursing students in Australia and BLS CPR training.
We also met a fellow American from California who moved to Australia in 2020 who is in the nursing program at TAFE. We enjoyed ‘tea time’, where students take a break for tea and/or coffee at 10:30 am everyday.
The IT and Engineering students sat in on classes related to their career programs at the TAFE NSW Wollongong Campus.
Engineering students observed a class that discussed different practices for measuring and machining work and they observed an apprentice milling a part on a lathe.
We reunited with everyone at the North Wollongong TAFE campus and headed to The Scarborough Hotel for lunch with a beautiful terrace overlooking the sea. Some students even spotted a whale!
Our next stop was in Helensburgh NSW to visit a Wildlife park, Symbio. We saw koala bears hanging out in trees, dingos, meerkats, and hung out with and fed kangaroos and wallabies!
We then ended the day watching a gorgeous sunset at the Cape Patton lookout point.
-Sara D.