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C'était fantastique de rencontrer tous les jeunes ambassadeurs du jeudi et maintenant je suis encore plus excité de représenter la Nouvelle-Zélande en France.

Over the last month my project has picked up pace and I have learned a lot in regards to my topic of the recognition of war and the role of the media. This was heavily boosted by the day we spent in Wellington and I have now three key developments I want to share.

The first involves our visit to the New Zealand portrait Gallery in...

J'ai eu un autre mois très occupé, parce que à mon lycée nous avons actuellement les examens, donc il a été difficile pour moi de travail sur Shared Histories. Mais j'ai encore fait beaucoup des petites choses vers mon projet.

The senior students involved in our Shared Histories project at school went down to the Hocken Archives for an afternoon to spend time researching and finding resources for our school project. There were some amazing sources available to look at. For example, I spent...

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...

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...

May was a very busy month for me, so unfortunately I haven’t been able to devote much time to developing my inquiry.  However, at the end of the month I was very lucky to be able to meet up with Emma, Ailish and Pascale for lunch.  It was really great to catch up with Emma and Ailish again, and so nice to meet Pascale face to face!  I also had a Skype call with Ruth; it was lovely to be able to meet her before we all get together on the 12th of June.  Speaking of which, not long until all of us...

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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...

Cette dernière mois il y avais beaucoup d'attention des commemorations pour le jour d'ANZAC. 2014 marks the 99th anniversary of the devastating Gallipoli campaign, and New Zealand’s involvement in the war beginning.

This month I went to an exhibit at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery that showed photographs of ANZAC cenotaphs, taken by Laurence Aberhart.

It was strange to think that in almost every town in New Zealand (and Australia) there is a cenotaph with a collection of names of those...

Hello again!

Its been a whole month already. I have unfortunately been snowed under with school work and as much as I hate to admit it, Young Ambassadors has taken a bit of a backseat! I will make sure that this won’t happen too often and that I keep chipping away at my project.

Over the past week I have been getting in contact with local papers to promote the sharedhistories site and Young Ambassadors trip. I am hoping that they will get back in contact with me soon so I can share what we...

The last couple of weeks I have been busy working towards completing a history research internal assessment - a very long but worthwhile process.  I was luckily able to work this internal in parallel with my Young Ambassador inquiry, meaning that over the month since my last blog entry, I have been able to kill two birds with one stone.  The outline of the history internal is to “research one historical event or place that is of significance to New Zealanders.”  I stated the aim of my research...

Salut à tous!

I would like to start off by thanking the Awapuni Rotary and Milson Rotary Clubs from Palmerston North for their very generous donations towards the cost of the Young Ambassadors trip. It is much appreciated, and I look forward to speaking to them about the trip and my project outcomes.

On the 18th of March, the Manawatu Standard published an article about the Young Ambassadors Tour. I have included a picture of the article above. There is an important correction I would like to...