. LE WINTER FORMAL

Laurie Savoie

Le winter formal est un événment qui, depuis quelques années, aide a ramasser de l'argent pour la graduation des secondaires 5. Chaque année, cette événment est une réussite total. Le bal en blanc est une danse pour les secondaires3, 4 et 5. Chaque élève est invité et ont l'opportunité d'amener un ou une ami(e). Cette danse implique un dj amusant, de la danse et des décorations à couper le souffle. Le bal en blanc a habituellement lieu au début du mois de décembre pour célèbrer Noel. Chaque billet coûte 15$. Le commité de graduation de cette année est présentement en pleine discution sur les décisions à prendre pour cet événement. Nous avons du pin-sur-la-planche parce qu'il  y a beaucoup à organiser. Nous vous promettons une autre soirée inoubliable, alors prèter attention aux annoces le matin et le midi car vous allez bientôt en entendre parler.

High School Departure

Isabelle Gagnon

Winston Churchill once said, “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning”. When we think about high school ending we think of it as the end of a chapter in our lives, and as a new chapter starting. We think back on all the memories and cherish them. Then we must think of what comes after the beginning.

Every book has an end; we are reaching the last chapter of our books. This year, was surreal, practically like a dream. Sooner than we think we will be on the last page reading the last words of the 2011 saga. We must take our book and reread it over and over until the memories are for ever engraved in our minds.

We must think back on our first strike in secondary 1, our first ped-day, our first detention. Then we go to secondary 2, our first fight with our BFF, our first crush, our first kiss. As we go on to secondary 3 we have our first non-sleep-a-thon, our hearts break for the first time, and we laugh about how silly we looked in secondary 1. Once we reach secondary 4 we feel strong and proud. We have our first winter formal and we begin to think about “what happens after this”. Now we are in secondary 5, we think about Grad pictures, Grad breakfast, our prom dates, and our prom dress. Now we don’t only have to think about what happens next. We have to know what happens.

Next year most of us will be in college or a trade school. We will be living out our dreams, and facing new challenges. With the end of the beginning, we begin to build our lives. This year we stress over college applications, jobs, and mistakes we should have fixed. We will think about all the things we should have done and all of those we shouldn’t have.

This year tempers will soar, friendships will bloom, and the graduating class of 2011 will bond. As we think about the change that is to come, and we will cry for all those we will lose. We will laugh from all those insiders we made through out the years, and we will forgive those we never thought we could forgive. This was the year we will remember for the rest of our life, this is our year!

Final Exams Are Ridiculous

Shawn Lefebvre

 

           Over the years, the amount of work school has piled on students has increased exponentially, and by the end of June, the amount of anxiety and aggravation amassed is stultifying. Parents may think that these pupils would be overjoyed and ecstatic since the school year has come to an end, but guardians always forget one horrific detail. Finals.

Students are well aware of the stupidity and nonsense that are present on final exams, but no matter how ready the pupil, they still know that in the end being bamboozled is imminent. This inevitably causes more stress, and in some cases causes some students to erupt with animosity. Yet can these disciples truly be blamed for being completely fed-up and frustrated? Absolutely not.

These so called “final exams” the government creates, are just plain ridiculous, and only serves to make lives more miserable. The original purpose of the final exams were to give an evaluation on whether the student has comprehended what he/she learned throughout the year, and yet the government will do everything in their power to make that evaluation as complicated as possible.

The only action these young prospects can possibly do is try their best, and hope for an acceptable mark that will continue them on a path to a bright future, but after all the hectic events are over, one just can’t help wonder what the point of making such a ludicrous test truly was? No one has yet to find a legitimate answer to that question, but hopefully one day, the government will express their own thoughts on their destructive creation.