KYC Down Under

The Kahnawake Youth Centre ‘Cultures of the South Pacific Tour’ is well underway. At 27 degrees, 85% humidity, mostly sunny, +16 hours ahead of our time here at home, the KYC travel journey took a chunk of 2 full days, but after 22 hours of flight time, watching the sunset over Canada and sunrise over the Pacific during the group’s longest flight at 15.5 hours from Vancouver, they finally landed at their first destination, Sydney, Australia. Kyle Zacharie, the Executive Director at the KYC on the experience so far:

“They are having a great time, Day 1 and a lot of it was spent travelling before that, so I’m really expecting today to be more alive and active, I mean we all need to catch our sleep too, all of our internal clocks are backwards right now. They had a lot of questions, they were in awe and they must have taken, collectively, over a million pictures already. They are getting to experience the world in a whole different way, not just through a book but they are seeing it through their own eyes.”

Zacharie says the activity schedule gets wet and heat wavy today:

“Today we are going to the Australian Indigenous Museum, that’s our morning and then in the afternoon we are expecting to see weather of almost 40 degrees Celsius and almost 90% humidity, so we will actually be heading to the beach where the majority of our group has elected to do a surfing lesson. So, that is what we are doing today. From here we are also heading to New Zealand and the Cook Islands later on in the week, so we are going to be in this part of the world for about 12 days.”