~Marianna's+Journal

on the 29th of July, Boori Monty Pryor visited the year 10 students at killester college. he was quite a funny character and an intriguing story teller, as we all wanted to hear more about his life and the obsticles he overcame as an indigenous Australian man. i was outraged by some of the things that his family was put through and i honestly could not believe the unequality. Boori told us some traditional aboriginal dream time related stories which actually seemed to make sense suprisingly... aswell as telling us the more personal stories of his childhood. boori taught us about different ways to handle situations and taught us about creativity, imagination and the importance of individual beliefs. He made all the students laugh with his humour, but it was not just laughter, it was sincere deep laughter as we could all relate to what he was speaking about in some way or another even though we are not indigenous Australians, we understood where he was coming from. I think that it is definantly hard to make an audience feel on a deeper level the stories of others, booris ability to potray the emotions of his life is definately quite comendable.
 * Boori Monty Pryor**