Figure 1.--This prep school boy is lost in his thoughts, perhaps thinking about his last few days at the school he has attended for 6 years. Ina few months he will move from a prefect to a new boy at his secondary school.
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Figure 1.--This prep school boy is lost in his thoughts, perhaps thinking about his last few days at the school he has attended for 6 years. Ina few months he will move from a prefect to a new boy at his secondary school. |
All morons,
Look at them all.
They sit there talking about rubbish.
I'm going to be famous.
They'll all bow to me.
Why don't they grow up?
Be more mature towards others?
What the hell do they take me for?
An idiot?
Playing their stupid little tricks.
Throwing their bits of junk.
Playing their so-called sports.
Waste of time.
Pack of gits.
I express my point of view
And they tell me to shut up.
Now they think I am crazy.
What losers.
Scum of the earth.
Maybe some of you people rank above this
level.
Just.
I'm more intelligent than all of you people.
I admit it, there are some smart people,
Who behave like you.
Selfish people.
No consideration for others.
Making their noise.
Why don't they shut up?
Why don't you listen?
Get a brain.
Why don't you grow up?
Raymond Lee, Lymphad, Cashmere High School, 1993
Let me introduce myself. My name is Lisa. I am part of a family of five. I have an older sister and a younger brother. My height is 1.50 m. arid my weight is 35 kg. I am ten years old and was born on the 11th March 1983. My favourite sport is. gymnastics. I like giving the dog a wn and reading about hOrses. My favourite colour is black and my favourite books are Black Beauty and The Call of the Wild., both animal books.
I know a bit about horses and in the future would like to be an equestrian jumper. My favourite person is Mark Todd, an Olympic horse rider.
Lisa, Blue Mountain College, 1994
Let me introduce myself. My name is Stacey. I am eleven years old arid I was born on the 28th of August, 1982. 1 have an older sister, Michelle, who is 13 and two younger brothers. One, called Warrack, is 8 and the youngest is 6.' His name is Jared. I have a mother and a father, and a Nana and a Gran We have five pets. I have a young pony called Ginger. He is called that because he has ginger speckles. My sister has a horse called Polly. We have one cat called Oatie and two farm dogs. We did have three but Dad shot one of them. The dog is named Boa and the pup, Sweep. I live in Waikoikoi, Gore. We are just above the river. I like dancing, strawberries with icing sugar and a feast of marinated mussels. I hate cooked tomatoes. They make me sick. My favourite sport is swimming and netball. My hobbies are jazz dancing, horse riding, piano and swimming. My favourite t.v. programmes are Paradise Beach and Neighbours. I really like the set of Babysitters' Club and Gymnastics.
The things I can do well are dancing and swimming. I know a lot about' sewing and cooking.
I want to be a teacher!
Stacey, Blue Mountain College, 1994
My opinions
come prepackaged
through the great
postal service of
conversation
the initial
planning and design
completed by my
parents construction
company;
renovations done
over the years
by those who have
in some way
touched me
and given a fresh
lick of paint
by the person I
last talked to.
Asti Renaut, Lymphad, Cashmere High School, 1993
The school reports that Asti's poetry is a good advertisement for whole-brain learning strategies - most of it is based on ideas that come to her in the twilight-time between waking and sleeping. These ideas are expertly crafted into poetry which has won her this year's Peter Smart Memorial Prize for Poetry, competed for by students from all Canterbury secondary schools. Asti did not expect to win and would not have entered without Ms Bishop's enthusiastic encouragement. When she was told she had won, she "screamed and screamed!" She enjoys writing poetry, but would like more time at school for students to find their individual "voices". Asti won both the English and the Science prizes in the fifth form this year.
Being a teenager is not very easy
Condescension
Shattered memories
Permeate
My future dreams and hopes.
Necessity comes first.
Demands last.
I declare devotion
To enlightenment
Freedom and peace
Active motivation
Takes over
DESPITE
Self - enfacement.
Lana W., Lymphad, Cashmere High School, 1993
Swimming in a sea of people
With my head only just above the water
Pulled down by the weight of Loneliness.
Do these people not see my distress
As the water fills my lungs?
I am frantic now
Sinking lower and lower
Until I touch the sea-floor
Named Depression
The only thing that could have saved me
Was the lifejacket called
Self-confidence.
Christine Tsui, Lymphad, Cashmere High School, 1993
