The Simpson Prize students have now been back in Oz for just over two weeks  – enough time to re-adjust and reflect on our experiences.   Here are some thoughts from most of the gang.  This is the final blog entry, so thanks to those who have followed the experiences and for any year 9 or 10 students interested in applying to this year’s competition, you can see what sort of experience the winners have on their trip.

Istiklal St tram

  

Istanbul evening

Megan Prouatt

After eleven days of sharing an experience, and getting to know such an awesome and unique bunch of people as the ones that attended the Simpson Prize Trip 2009, it’s sad being separated by our different states.  On top of that, I’m missing our after dinner intense games of spoons and the other card games Andrew taught us, although most of those surpassed my intelligence anyway.

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