Page 11 - 1994

1PPOSITE PAGE: Not only are grade 9 students !Cperiencing destreaming, but as shown here by
tee Listar, they are also hard at work completmg 1e Provincial Reading and Writing Test. A misinter- retation of the French language results in (1-R) ,manda Morrish, Kathryn Baulke, Jeff Bitten, Jen- ifer Redding, Theresa Jensen, Todd Guthrie (seated) ason Hicks, Andrew Armagost and Catrina Wink, iling onto their French teacher's desk.
STRANGE TERRITORY!
When beginning your first year in a large school, packed with approximately four-
teen hundred other students, the possibilities for good and bad times, embarassing moments and strange phenomena are infinite.
For a vast majority of students, times are best when romance is involved. "Meeting lots of good looking guys" (Janice Thomas) and "Girls!" constitute "the best thing about high school". Others found that making the sports teams and "Freedom!" (Jon- athan Bruce) were high school's most attractive features.
Strange territory always has room for the bizarre and embarassing. Given favour- able conditions, students can enjoy "watching Mrs. Sharp dance to 'YMCA"' (Frazer Swann-Stairs), or giggles as their "French teacher trips over her chair and utters 'Je m'excuse' (Katrine McCarl). Faint blushes have tinted Grade Niner cheeks as they "walked into the boy's washroom" (Janice Thomas), "tripped on the stairs" (Matt Reid), smelled the scent of their cologne bottle, which broke in their backpack in English class (C.J. Horner), or paraded in their "Skivvies" for football initiation be- cause they forgot their boxers (Corey Kierstead).
Grade 9 at C.C.I., while new and unnerving, provides many opportunities for wierd and wonderful experiences and encounters- but the safari in strange territory is just beginning! ABOVE: Mark Blakely, Erik Corlett, Amanda Morrish, Erika Worth; LEFT: Shawn Auget, Derek MacKenzie and Matthew McKee in Mr. V.'s Woodwork- ing class