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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2009-07-09, Page 15THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2009. PAGE 15.By Hailey Bachert From the day many of us entered Grey as frightened little kindergartners clinging to our parents’ arms – we have changed. Things have happened to us. We are taller; some of us anyway; we are wiser and we have experienced more. Maybe we have felt happiness, maybe we have felt pain. We have met new friends, and we have drifted apart from old ones. We’ve won games; we’ve lost games. We’ve broken bones. We’ve spent countless hours of our lives on the field in the sun. We've crossed the line and we've been hauled back over it with our tails between our legs. We have laughed, we have cried, we have hurt and we have healed. We have entered this place for the first time and we will leave it for the last time and we will be different. We will have changed. Ten years ago getting the purple crayon or having a turn at the water table would have made our day. Naptime and figuring out what flavour the playdough was were also highlights of the day. We thought that kindergarten was the greatest thing ever. Our teachers warned us that Grade 1 wouldn’t be all fun and games like we were used to. But they were wrong. Mr. Park and Miss Hill made fun in everything they did. From singing the date and storytime to banjo playing, we had a blast. Grade 2 was a fun repeat for some of us with Mr. Park. Learning more crazy songs and stories and lots about nature we actually thought that school was fun. Even science was fun because we had aquariums filled with fish and snails and every insect imaginable to study. In Grade 3 we were all together with Mrs. Taylor. We spent many hours sitting on the carpet in front of her rocking chair listening to slightly more sane stories then we had heard in Grade 1 and 2. Grade 4 came along and Mrs. Murray and many music classes with it. After a few months she decided she had enough of us and had a baby. So we ended up with lots of supply teachers until Mr. Ford arrived. With him came many extra gym classes and lots of fun! We also started French with Mrs. C. that year. In Grade 5 Mr. Bartlett turned our manners right side up. “Can I” didn’t quite fly with him and at the start none of us were sure why we weren’t allowed to go to the bathroom! His response would be “I don’t know, can you?” Grade 6 we had Miss Aarssen and plenty of fun. We had the ‘O show in Tokyo’ and lots of Japanese lessons. The sight of Mervin and Anthony in Miss Aarssen’s high heels was a funny thing that we will all remember. We also had our first ever student teacher with us, Mrs. McCracken. Grade 7 brought a new teacher for us and the school, Mr. Hernden. I will always remember the look on all of our faces when we saw him walk into the gym the first day of Grade 7. We were all expecting some old grumpy teacher that yells all the time but, we were wrong. Mr. Hernden was the kind of teacher that actually tried to understand us and didn’t yell when we were being loud or something, just sat there and stared us down until we stopped. His many attempts to convince the school to upgrade in the technology area are much appreciated and still on going. Grade 8 brought us Mrs. G. and learning about ultrasounds. Mrs. G. spent lots of money on us for special art projects like the plaster masks. All of us girls were terrified that we would lose our eyebrows to the plaster right before grad so we covered ourselves in vaseline. Very gross. I don’t think that anyone lost them so the vaseline must have worked. Another was our clay and plasticine sculptures, which were slightly messy but also lots of fun. Camp Celtic was a fun memory for all that ended up going. With the “oh so scary” rope courses, the rock climbing walls, the terribly scary bears and the bad manners punishments, some people were very humiliated. Herman very nicely put up with us and organized this trip for us. Grade 8 overall has been a very exciting and full year that we won’t ever forget. I want to say thank you to my classmates for choosing me to share all of our memories from Grey with you. Also all of our principals, Mr. and Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Cochrane and all the other staff. We don’t change because of ourselves it’s the people and moments in life that change us. We will walk out of this room and in our separate directions of the world. We will grow and we will change and the memories and details of Grey will slowly blend into one, but no matter who we become; no matter what happens to us or what we see or do in our lives, this exact moment, right now, will remain in every one of us. It will be a part of us, and it will be behind us, and although some of us may walk out of this room and never speak again, this day, this auditorium, this second is something we will always share. There are moments in life that connect us. 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