GOLD!+Diaries+from+the+Goldrush+entries

==**..Pretend you are a person writing a diary entry about your life in the Goldfields. Explain your situation.** == ==**Why are you there? Who have you left behind? What are the conditions like? Where do you find shelter, food, clothing....?** ==

Today was a very hot day in the Northern Suburbs of Victoria. I can't believe I left my wife and kids to have the hardest job in the world. Those Chinese and Europeans are taking all our Gold so you would know how igsoughsted we would be just standing and working the Windglass. One of our guys is very ill at the moment so we are just very sorry for him. Until we meet again Max Wiseman

Dear Diary, I am a miner looking to make my fortune on the goldfields. I have left behind my family which is disappointing because I had only just got married but had to leave my wife at home. The conditions where i live are very humid, and it is even worse because it is so overcrowded in our tents. I only wear the same shirt and pants everyday, but i sometimes wash them in the old creek up the road. I go fishing once in a while but mainly get my food from the baker, which isnt much, just have to survive off one loaf of bread a fortnight. At first I was enjoying my adventure, but now life is really hard and I havent found a lot of gold, which is upsetting. I have made some new friends though which is good, their names are Jim, Bob and Frank. I am panning for gold but I also use my pick and shovel to find gold. Hopefully my big discovery is not too far away. I will write again soon, Tayla Chrisovergis

Why, oh why did I leave america. I was recently married and I just had to come to this sunburnt country looking for a fortune. I left my wife and my parents to fend for themselves hoping to make us rich enough to buy another house! Yeah and what do I get? a worthless 5 ounces of gold. The chinese and the europeans are hogging all of the gold! I think the chinese and the european are making some sort of alliance to get rich and make all the other contry's poor. So some of us americans are having a bit of fun. we,re sabotaging their shafts in the night and making them cave in and we're also poisoning their water with hydrocynic acid. If you think it's harsh it isn't since they can find cobalt salt, dicobalt edatate, hydroxocobalamin or cobinamide in hours to purify the water and they have lot's of people so it'll be easy to clean up the mineshafts. Another bad thing is the weather it's so hot that 2 of my friends have died from dehydration and every night I'm sweaty and my shoulder muscles ache. I live inside a tent that just fits me in it and I sometimes find some visitors snuggling up next to me.The creature that snuggled up to me was a baby dingoe, I was about to shout but then I realised that if I shouted it would attract his mother and then i'd be in trouble. He's grown used to me now and he follows me around like a pet dog and sleeps with me every night. I get most of my food from a kind farmer who supplies me with some mutton, tea, flour and a pair of fresh cloths as his wife washes my clothes for me. They're a kind old couple who don't have any children so they consider me as one. I think there are only a few benefits for this country and one of them is the new animals like dingoes, echidnas, platypuses, wallabies, kangaroos and a couple more. I've made a couple of friends and did I tell you that a few aussies and other countrymen joined our little club of americans. I am more of a miner than a panner my muscles are built for mining but I don't really have the patience and I'm thinking of doing both wich will make my life even more misrable but I would have more of a chance of finding gold. Until next time, Alwin Joshy

Dear Diary, I just got to the goldfields, not many people are here so I acturlly might have a chance to find some gold. The weather isn't my favourite it is very bad, not very good for gold mining. I tried digging but i couldn't find a thing. I'll try gold panning in the rivers, hopefully i'll find gold nugests. I bought all my things, such as my tent, water and food but i might be running out of food and water although i bought heeps. SO WISH ME LUCK !!! Karlie livingstone.

==It is saturday afternoon and I just stopped digging for gold in the gold fields and I am so tired and I really don't want to go again tomorrow but I know I have to because If I want to survive I need to get some money== BRODIE ;D

Dear Diary
It is a monday morning and sems i came from malta im not used to the hot ive been here for hours and i havent found any gold grrrr ill let you know what happens tommorow Good Night Diary.Ben Longo

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**//3:30-I just got to the Goldfields and its 3:30 in the morning SO TIERED i already miss italy and it is PORING!!!!!!!!//** **//my friends Karlie,Caillie,Alex and//** **//Morgan are snoring on me! 5:00-So we had a little sleep til CAPTION woke us UP!!!!! 5:15-My friends have found heaps of Gold but i've only found lots//** **//of water and dirt but no gold!!!! 5:45- So Hungrey but then i scremmed YES FOUND HEAPS OF GOLD YIPPEE but still digging thought!//** **//7:30- Hey still di g ging we finish at 9:00 can't wait! 9:30- finished late//** **//PLEASE WISH ME LUCK FOR TOMORROW BYE!!!!!!!!//** **//Mia//**

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**It is 6:00 in the morning and I'm so tied we start mining at 7:00 so I had an hour until we start. So I got ready and wrote a letter to my family. "I miss you so much I can not wait until I come home, I'm ok, not feeling sick yet but how are you guys hope you are safe and healthy, I love and miss you :) from dad". Just when I finish I hear the mining horn so I get my pick axe and go and start mining I am mining all day and cannot find anything the mine closes at 10:30 and it is 7:00, I have 3 hours and 30 minutes at 8:00 I find a 2.5 centimeter piece of gold, which I pull out of the ground. I estimate that this would be worth at lest $500 I was so happy I jumped up and down screaming whoo whoo whoo than out of the bushes 2 bush rangers popped out and stoll my piece of gold then ran away. I quickly went to a police officers on a horse and told him about the bush rangers that stole my gold, he got at least 7 other officers for back up and rode of the direction the bush rangers ran off. The last police officer asked me what tent number am I in, so if thay find the thiefs he would know who to return it to. Then he rode off, then I walked into my tent and layed down wating for the news and at 10:30 I heard the closing horn. Then a police officer knocked and came in and showed me my piece of gold and asked if this is yours and than I said yes. The officer went to his tent and went to sleep and than so did I, what a day!** =====

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**I just woke up its 5:30 I'm so tired but we have to start at 7:00 one hour and half so a better get ready. I really miss my family I should've stayed in Los Angeles. I'll have my breakfast now. I've finished my breakfast now I get changed to go mining. I checked the clock its time to go mining I quickly run out and start mining. After 2 hours I found gold I went to my tent and I put the gold in my tent. I go out to start mining no so luckly after an hour its now 10:00 I go** **to my** ** ﻿ tent to have lunch I back to tent there to gold! l go to the court the man said that ''l might not had it in the begaining". I went back to my tent to have dinner I have my dinner every eventful day. **=====

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I'm standing in my tent, its poring rain. I think my tents about to blow away.Now I'm in the mine, I'm nice and dry, suddenly a huge wave of water came rushing in. After it was gone I noticed it had washed some soil away and I found a Golden nugget. When the rain finally stopped I took it to my tent and hid it in a safe place. Soon I will take it and cash it in so I will have some money to feed my family. ======

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19.6.1851 Yesterday I was so happy I found that gold, it was so easy to find it like that. I woke up to a stinky tent I didn't know what it was. Later on the people from next door came and said sorry. Their mutton they had from last week had gone off. I aired my tent and it was all ready for a good night sleep. ======

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20.6.1851.When I woke up this morning I was glad my tent didnt smell like rotten mutton. I'm so excited, I'm going panning today. It's my favorite way to mine for gold. Your close to the water so you can have a drink when you get thirsty and hot and it's easier to shovel the dirt and use that heavy pick.======

Caillie Gschwind
**Dear diary** It was a scorching summer day, today it was so hot on the dry plains.It hadn't rained for days,so I stopped my work and went for a swim.I feel terrible that I left home just to work in this miserable country.I have to buy some tea,flour,some blankets.One of my friend is so sick he was green.We are so sorry for him, but some of us are trying to help him.oh one more thing I bought a new cradle I was trying it out today.I lost my job today I worked as as a shop keeper, I worked part time so I had time to dig for gold.A chinese got it, so I feel miserable. Need to find more gold so wish me luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anna  __//**﻿Dear diary**//__ ﻿Another hard day on the gold fields the sun felt like it was burning my flesh, but the other day was alot worse because my wife and kids left cause they couldn't stand the conditions i wonder if she will ever come back. Wh  en i was out in the fields my pick axe broke i thought it couldn't get any worse but then one of the miners died it was a tradgety then you wouldn't guess what i found but if you want to know i found GOLD!!!!! i yelled EURIKA!!!!!!! so many times i lost my voice now the future looks bright again Alex

=__**Dear Diary **__= = **The first couple of days were very hard. I found no gold just dirt and some rocks. It was getting late so I hopped into bed and went off to sleep.** The next day I heard a loud noise coming from outside it sounded like a cheer. It was Bob Moneyhand he had found some gold and those woppers are huge. He is going to be rich or is he? That night I sneaked into his hut a nd stole his gold and I know you are all thinking why did I do that but look on the bright side now I'm rich and I can have a good heathly meal tonight. I am having shepards pie. Mmm I never got to eat the pie because my sneaky moves got spotted by the COPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They really get me angry now I am in prison.=

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