Here's a bit of trivia for you aussies. Remember the First Fleet :D? Well when I was in grade 9 at school, we studied australian history (all of 1 semester), and during our exam, something totally blew my mind away. We had to analyse a letter from one 'Nathanial Lucas'; a letter he'd written from Australia back to his family (he was a prisoner convicted of stealing a loaf of bread and was promptly shipped off to australia).
Well, the thing I couldn't believe is that he's the very man who was the anscestor of my mother and therefore myself. I mean, this was my great great great great something or other that they were all answering questions about on the exam. I was thrilled!
Ok I probably haven't convinced anyone that it was an amazing occurrance, but to me it was, because I'd been trying to find information about him since learning from my mother of his existence, and had only found his name listed in some list.
Kewl huh... I'm descended from a crook and one of the first inhabitants of Australia
