Today I volunteered again at epic. Today’s program day was all about autonomy and knowing about peoples mobs and traditional cultural. We ran different activities like weaving, drama, music and arts and crafts, I personally was a part of the arts and craft program where we got kids to express themselves using aboriginal techniques and create posters with unifying sayings.

I spend 6 hours volunteering at EPIC pathways! This was a very informative session for me to learn more about aboriginal and Torres straight island people and their culture!

Abby Sun signed my friends and I up for 50/50 at an AFL game. Our cause that we were raising money for today was Beyond Domestic Violence to support domestic violence survivor and uplift the young generation of men to a standard where DV is negated. This was a really meaningful cause to support and I had some great conversations with people about the cause.

Today I did bush care with Jack and it was a lot of fun! It took me back to my time doing environmental work in Costa Rica near the border of Nicaragua on a eco reserve

One of my friends had to leave early from the ushering for the commemoration dinner, so I stepped in for the dinner rotation!

Today we had the planning session for the EPIC events. As an international student I do not know much about indigenous communities in Australia and this is a great opportunity for me to learn some new things and meet some great people!

Help set up chairs for the commemoration dinner 💪💪

I went the to the sexual health talk today about female sexual pleasure. This was an informative experience that re-informed my knowledge and I had some good conversations with my friends around the female anatomy which is usually a lesser discussed topic.

Today I attended the STI talk with Rio and Peta. I learnt more information about STI’s, consent and relationships. This information will be useful during my time at university exploring relationships and also to help my friends out in life situations. I feel like this workshop has opened up comfortability with my friends to talk about situations with STI’s and relationships

Emma and I sat in on Dr. Tarli Young’s Connect and Thrive continued session. I learnt how to bust myths on social connection, identify weak spots in myself and strategies on how I can grow socially. This was really useful as a non- Australian student trying to understand the social scene here.