My letter to Sam

10/10/2018



Dear Sam,


My dear great, grand child, have the birds been singing today in your garden? Did you go with your mum down to the park to play?


In 2010 I had the chance to join a trip to the North Pole. I felt scared because I knew it would be so cold and very hard work. I nearly didn't do it because it was really hard work to organise the trip - but I knew the ice was melting and I thought that if I went maybe people would be interested in the trip, and maybe they would realise more about the melting ice. Maybe they would understand more about how real climate change is and how we have change how we live in order to stop things from being worse. Is there any ice left in the arctic now?


Some people did take notice. I think that over the two months it took me and the team to haul our sleds over the cold, rough ice that people who didn't already know much about what was happening took some notice because they looked at the website and they became more curious and found some information they hadn't seen before. Children in some of the schools followed the trip on the internet - and they talked to their parents about the melting ice and why it was happening. Even though the arctic is a long way from Bendigo it gave people motivation to change - little changes and big changes that in the end made a difference.


You have not met me but you might have seen some of my pictures and diaries. I hope that your Bendigo is as beautiful as mine - I have birds in my garden and parks with trees to walk through.

Linda