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Here we have both literary musings where students write about their private thoughts. These pieces are exercizes in creative writing, but provide wonderful insights into student thinking and private experiences. These pieces provide the kind of peronal insights that do not come out in ordinary conversation. This provides some interesting insights sbout the children in the photographs.
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
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
