Your average college week!

Hello again Wantirna Watchers!

This week has been another big week at Wantirna College - there are a few events that have happened that I must comment on. First, it is great to see the language/science centre finally completed. I noticed that apart from the sandstone bricks, much of the outside is painted a dark navy colour. Great colour choice, Principal team! It's going to look brilliant once the year nines make themselves at home!

Now Mr. McMillan has got busy this week! The renowned senior Legal Studies teacher has managed to band together the VCAL group and organise a charity can swap for a sausage and drinks, with donations going to the salvation army. It was inspiring to see many students swapping their cans for food items (and putting the canteen out of business!!), however there are two flaws in the plan!

A:)      Due to the lack of advertising in advance, many students were forced into donating slabs of beer and spray cans from their lockers - all they had on hand!

B:) Once a can was donated, the can of drink could be again donated for another once drunk. Thus the cycle repeats infinitely!

The third and final topic I'd like to discuss was the English practise exam held in the senior centre yesterday! Ms Sgroi (The famous rival of the great Mr. Newnham) has done a tremendous job of rounding up the year level's core English students and holding them in a room for three hours! While in there, her subordinates watched as the year was forced to discuss making rugs, burning witches and fighting by the bay. Sadly I do not study core english, so rather than partaking in these activities I was at knox, eating fast food like every other greasy teenager... However it seems that the material used in the english course has become rather bland when compared with its importance in life!

It's almost like a man of any profession can walk in to the VCAA these days and their material will be included in the course. Personally, I'd sooner read the "movie novel" of Brokeback mountain before I read a book about making carpets!

Well that's another week at Wantirna College! I hope to see you all next week for another exciting adventure!

Sam

Ross Huggard - Hero

Hello friends in Eastern Melbourne!

Well the end of the year is fast approaching and we are at the midway point through unit 4! How fast the year has gone - it seems like only yesterday we were discussing the motives behind the locked toilets. Some cheap stabs at Mr. Arico and some canteen jokes later and many of us year twelves are picking courses! How ridiculous!

Yesterday in mentor group, many of us year twelves witnessed a life changing phenomenon. we all sat in the lecture theatre, eagerly waiting to be addressed by Ms Sgroi. When the moment came, Ms Sgroi gave us a quick motivational speech, before introducing the most perculiar man on the planet!

Okay, so the man wasn't an eggplant (Although perhaps somebody seated in the back of the lecture theatre may disagree!) but he was dressed in purple! His hair was neatly groomed and his shoes were reflecting the lighting. Excellent!

Ross Huggard was his name, and he was here to teach us how to survive the English exam! Before his talk, Ms. Sgroi told us that taking notes was "imperative" if we wanted to pass. I must say peers, when I looked around the room, I was impressed that everybody was taking notes! Not about the topic he was speaking about of course, but also notes about him! After the assembly finished, I gathered the combined notes of a few people and found the following:

ROSS HUGGARD:

Maths formula:

(Willy Wonka) x (Mr Fernando) x (Moustache) = Ross Huggard

Possible resemblances:

Talking Eggplant

Cadbury Advertiser

Willy Wonka

Skinny Bob Hillman

Tinky Winky

U.S President Theodore Roosevelt

Any of these may be true, although due to the picture above, our guest speaker most likely bought their clothes from the Cadbury headquarters Op shop! Nonetheless, his speech to the year level was riveting! With a powerpoint that long and the voice of Chris Lilley, how could it not be!

I will finish off tonight's blog with the famous conclusion of the man himself:

"I hope you get the score you need, I hope this has helped you. Good luck!"

See you next week!!

Sam