Run up the red and white
Sunday, 02 April, 2006
Instead of those old banners, this now hangs near the stage:
Ben invited her to his Year 12 formal and wrote a song about her. It goes like this:
Lucinda, you look just like your brother ...
As a parting gift, my year donated this lectern to the school. Not that anybody knows that or cares anymore ...
The Year 11 quad now has a fountain (???) and stone seats. Where did the weather measuring instruments go???
The Science quad (named so because the Science staffroom was close by) was where my friends and I would hang out before school started. It was the less popular of the quads for some reason.
This is Mr Mak's old lab where two of my friends were caught up in an egging by the boys from Kogarah High (they came flying in through the windows and the girls had to crawl under the desks). Now it's been all done up—new benches! new chairs! new bunsen burners! (presumably). You should have seen the shoddy ones we used to use.
This corridor would be totally unremarkable apart from the fact that my friends and I used to sit in it and block the traffic coming through. Especially on rainy days where there wasn't really much place to go and for some reason classrooms were off-limits. We used to play Spoons and it could get quite violent sometimes.
The Maths quad has shade cloth and plants now???
The computer rooms once held Apple Mac classics and we'd spend our lunch hours playing “Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?”. I am sad to say that it did not improve my sense of world geography very much.
The Year 12 quad looks almost completely different with those benches around the trees. I hardly ever sat there, though I do remember doing a Bible study there on Jonah with Anita and Tammie.
The drama shed which was where ISCF (Inter School Christian Fellowship) was held every Friday at lunchtime. It was here that I first heard the song “Shine Jesus Shine” (which got played to death) and I first started to hang out with Christians (even though I wasn't one myself).
Three generations and one ring-in of St. Georgians!
Blinks:
A way of funding writing in the future: pitch and idea and get people to support it.
Place where you can hire play equipment for parties, etc.
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
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Ohh!! Carmen San Diego! I loved playing that in primary school! We had “Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?” and “Where in Time is Carmen San Diego?”. I used to be really good on one and really bad on the other…don’t remember which one…would mind playing it again - I’m sure I’d be much better now :D
Um… that isn’t Lucinda, who used to be a Bates, is it?
That’s right! Well spotted.