03 Jul 2018
The Fishing Elective at BIEC "Off the Hook" which is organised through the "Thrive Program" and LMA (Lebanese Muslim Association) celebrated its last day on Tuesday 3 July 2018 by visiting the Sydney Fish Markets at Pyrmont. The students with their Teacher (and Head Teacher of the IEC) Mr Kametopoulos and with the Support Teacher (Arabic/Assyrian/Greek) Ms Yousif and Volunteer Tanya met the organisers Ben and Fatimah at Bankstown Train Station at 8.30am on this day. From there, they all took the train to Dulwich Hill and then they took the tram (or light rail) to the Fish Market. The tram was something new for most students! At the Sydney Fish Markets, the students and the teachers met Alex, a young tour guide who took them around the shops as well as the auction area, explaining what happens step by step from...3.00 o'clock in the morning when most people are well asleep! Sydney Fish Markets had hundreds of people shopping fish and different types of seafood as well as eating freshly cooked fish on this day, like evey day! Some of the lobsters and crabs were HUGE! At the end of the day, Ben and Fatimah organised a fantastic lunch with freshly cooked fish and chips, a big snapper cooked Vietnamese style and pan fried fish which everyone enjoyed on the verandah watching the little boats at the wharf and the seagulls flying across. The seafood was so... fresh and tasty! Thank you to the "Thrive" Program and LMA for their wonderful help to BIEC students in this Elective! The Graduation Ceremony for these students will be on Friday 20 July at 2.00pm at the LMA Offices, 71-75 Wangee rd, Lakemba.
