BUILDING BRIDGES OF FRIENDSHIP 2

What hasBridge Buildinggot to do with

FRIENDSHIP Building?

Just as bridges need to be built from both ends at the same time…so to do FRIENDSHIPS need to be built by both people with equal effort.

By the time you build your bridge of FRIENDSHIP to this point you will know if you want to stop or proceed…not every bridge of FRIENDSHIP has to be finished or continued.

Sydney Harbour Bridge…World's largest (but not the longest) steel arch bridge.

1815 first proposed to build this bridge. 1900 design submissions invited but all rejected.

After the First World War (1914-1918),new design submissions ask for.1922 New South Wales Government then invited worldwide tenders

for the construction of the Bridge. 1924 construction started on The Sydney Harbour Bridge.

1932 construction completed took 8 yearsIt took 1,400 men - cost 4.2 million - 6 million hand driven rivets - 53,000

tonnes of steel

All bridges are different so too are all FRIENDSHIPS different.

Different Bridges for different environments… …different FRIENDSHIPS for different people.

Different kinds of bridges…different kinds of FRIENDSHIPS.

Golden Gate Bridge…Suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait, the mile-wide, three-mile-long channel between

San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. Opened in 1937 and was, until 1964, the longest suspension bridge main span in the world,

at 4,200 feet (1,300m).

The original design was universally rejected.Construction began 1933 opened 1937 took 4years

Cost more than $35 million completing ahead of schedule and under budget.

Tower Bridge construction…Tower Bridge 1886–1894 (8years) is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London which crosses the River

Thames.

Tower Bridge London…

Forth Bridge cantilever under construction…The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge over the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles (14 kilometres) west of Edinburgh City Centre.

Its construction began in 1882 and took 8 years to complete. It was opened on 4 March 1890 and spans a total length of 8,296 feet (2,528.7 m). It is sometimes referred to as the Forth Rail Bridge to distinguish it from the Forth Road Bridge, though this has never been its official name. .

What do you do when a Bridge of

FRIENDSHIP

collapses?

Rough storms come and go and can leave crumbled friendships in their wake but with effort we can rebuild both physical bridges as well as FRIENDSHIP bridges.

Often we need to call on others to help. Who would you call on to help?

What has happened to this FRIENDSHIP Bridge Building?

Fremantle Railway Bridge collapse due to heavy flooding 1926

1899 Australian troops marching across a bridge on their way to Fremantle to embark for the Boer War in South Africa

Fremantle Bridge some what later

Fremantle Bridge today…note how many tree trunks went into building just this one?

2Questions…1..Are all FRIENDSHIPS FORMED in the same way?

2..Are all FRIENDSHIPS made out of the same NEEDS?

3..Are the FRIENDSHIPS we FORM today CREATED FOR the same NEEDS and REASONS AND in the same way as the FRIENDSHIPS that we FORMED years ago?

4..Do all FRIENDSHIPS last for ever?

5..What kind of maintenance do you think is needed to keep a FRIENDSHIP from crumbling?

6..What do you do when a FRIENDSHIP collapses? Students to turn to another student and take turns in talking about what answer they would give to each of these questions. After a short time students are asked to share to the whole group their answers