Editors' rant: A trip down memory lane Part I

Attention Summer School students: A dust settling state of calm has descended on Summer School as classes and activities operate to clock-work efficiency. Your Zine editors assure all members of Summer School that this current state bliss is purely temporary as the Summer School wrap-up frenzy is about to hit the roof! With the dance night, beach afternoon and treasure hunt in tow, the Last Supper and Group Olympics promises nights of unprecedented fun.

However, with every end comes a beginning and on that note, your Summer School editors would like to recap on all the fun, laughter, peace and joy we have shared over the last couple of weeks. And what better way to do so than to let the pictures do the talking.

DISCLAIMER: your editors will not be held responsible for any tear jerker moments derived from the following memories.

Your editors, Jen and Sheryl.

"Er... she's taking a photo of us... gotta look natural, gotta look natural..."

"Cooking sausages looks like fun, but we much prefer to eat. Muahaha"

"The girls bare their feet as they get into the swing of things"

"Sakshi, is that a look of confusion we spy?"

"Jodi shakes it like there’s no tomorrow"

What's going on today?

8.45am: Group meeting

9.00am: Classes…

11.00am: Activity

12.00pm: Class

1.00pm: Lunch

2.00pm: Jon Faine lecture in Sunderland Theatre (Medical building for those now brave enough to try and find it themselves)

3.00pm: Class

4.00pm: The Last Supper - sob sob… it’s almost over, but wait… pizza cheers me up temporarily!

Handy-doodle reminder list

For Friday 18th January

• Scissors, glue, newspapers etc. for the group activities where the morning meetings groups will be making banners for the SS 2008 Olympics
• Don’t bring lunch - free BBQ!
• Proper shoes for Olympics
• Listening ears for Dr. Michael Carr-Gregg’s lecture on Yr 12 stress and time management

Ask Cal

Hey guys!

I returned safely from my alien ordeal, after teaching them the literary value of Shakespeare. Contrary to rumours abounding, I was not subjected to any experiments...

Dear Callum,
How on God’s green earth does Jennifer from your Italian class tie such a pretty bow in her hair?
~ Tied up with envy.

God, in hi excellence hath decreed that
From time to time there would live a girl,
To whom management of time and hair would be all.

Dear Cal,
Why is the world full of riddles???

Dear Perplexed,
The good people of Mensa need delights,
To while away the days and lonely nights.
Paradoxically yours,
Cal.

Don’t you with your girlfriend was hot like me, Callum?
Random

Dear Random
‘Tis not in the many colours of the lord’s
Chromatic promise that resteth my love.
Surpassing shades of praise and praise of shades.
Your loveliness, for certes, lives undoubted.
Yet my heart strings will not be plucked
by another hand, and stand to times test.

Yours in a parallel universe,
Cal.

CALS HANDY STUDY TIP #2:
Don't forget to eat something which will give you long lasting energy (like museli with chopped-up fruit, not Milo cereal) before you go to your exams. And it is always better to eat something,even if it is junk food .

Tommorow: Bumper liftout edition, Cal answers each of your questions, for the very last time, in exactly 6 words.

More Ask Cal Q&A:

Dear Cal,
GUESS WHO?

Dear Anonymous,
The stealthy dark of night hath,
The letters of my lover unauthored.
I am besieged with sable-coloured melancholy.
For I achieve not the knowledge of her face.

Dear Callum,
Why are you so terribly cool? Why is the sky blue? Why am I so beautiful?
Love, from,
A weirdo you don’t know.

Dear Weird,
I am but a man who’s outward shows doth
Mark an inward sense of fiery duty.
The hue of a skylark’s sea is light refracted,
And beauty, form your genome is contracted.

I remain, your dutiful servant in rhyme,
Cal.

Dear Cal
Why thou shall not die?

Dear Grammatically Challenged,
Language, words and poetry are the arts,
Which feed the soul and set alight the heart.
Thus, tend on them with a gentle respect,
As you would, a child in nine days wonder.

Yours in simpleness and duty,
Callum.

Snap of the day

The Welfare Corner

Riddle of the Day:

What did one eye say to the other?

Wednesday’s answer: It said, “Twist to open”.

Tongue Twister:

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

StudMuffin '08 ...

don't cha wish your girl(boy)friend was hot like [insert_name]?

It’s becoming a bit crazy in the lead-up to the epitome of the competition where your StudMuffin is revealed. Voting activity has been phenomenal and the last 24 hours has been crucial in reshaping our leaderboard. Remember - last day of voting is today!

Before we get to that… just to keep everything fair a few additional rules have been introduced for the voting process: 1) No typed votes… we want individually crafted, hand-written votes! 2) Those who do not appear on the nominations list will not be eligible to take out the title… there are enough people in contention as it is!

And now to our leaders:

1) Julie Kendall - impressively almost up to a 4 digit figure!

2) Daniel Duong

3) Judy Chu