A Banner Bold: The Diary of Rosa Aarons

In 1854, Rosa Aarons travelled with her family from London to
the diggings on the Ballarat goldfield, where she met the
governor of the colony, the leader of the diggers, Lady
Macbeth, and a dog called Bonaparte.
This is how Rosa would sum up her first year in Victoria:
10 things I learned last year:
1. Ships: how to explore them
2. Horses: how to ride them
3. Parents: how to understand them
4. Latin: how to speak it
5. Gold: how to pan for it
6. Friends: how to get to know them
7. Secrets: how to keep them
8. School: how to tolerate it
9. Snakes: how to avoid them
10. History: how to make it.