1970 School Magazine

detected me as being a 'tourist' when I sat bubbling and excited, waiting for Aquarius ro open 'Hair'. At night we visited the theatres and cinemas AND No. 10 Downing Smeet to obtain autographs - of the guards ! We celebrated New Year in the snow ( Santa was late ! ) then, like playing a game of real-life Monopoly, we explored Regent and Oxford Smeets , Trufalgar Square and an addition to the board Catnaby Smeer, Through 'f u/as Lord Kitchener's Valet' and 'Capability Brown' and every boutique we set olrr quick-roving eyes on, nearly all of us succeeded in purchasing new geffi to 'parade' off the plane in back in Brisbane ! Penniless till the next bank visit ( and how they were frequent ! ) we aII re- laxed with a hot cup of TEA instead of instant coffee, and some good English food - and bacon and eggs for breakfast ! But Athens, our next home for three days , again offered us those doughy, hard-crusted buns for our Continental breakfast. Greek currency muddled us that is why u/e bought womy beads and more womy beads ! (handy around exam time too ). 'Drachmae' wei'e often called 'draculas' or 'damdraks' or other wild 'concoctions' of the imagination that only we knew what vras meant while shop assistants stared back at us through masses of dark curly hair. In Athens, we tried to push over Columus on the Acropolis, mied to learn the entire Greek alphabet and tried to say good-bye to Athens without shedding any tears before u/e reached our last city, Hong Kong about eighteen hours away bv Alitalia. At last we reached that bustling city of junks and sampans, cheap cameras, tourists and teeming millions, and Repulse Bay, one of the filming locations of "Love is a Many Splendoured Thing". The culmination of all our spending sprees, and the fascination of the floating restaurants where we struggled to pick up grains of rice in chop- sticks, make it a place I will never forget. Tear- fullv we looked back on it, and tearfully we smiled on Brisbane, a place which will always be dear to my heart. With much appreciation to our parents and close friends, and much appreciation to our two chaperones, Sister Jean-Marie of St. Maryaret's School , and Sister Joan of St. Martin's Hospital, each one of us rcalized it had all come to an end - Around the \7orld in For ty Days - and now, like a big family splitting, we each murmured sad good-byes to one another and took different turns in the road of life. - LESLEY DOWNTE (VB)

"7o, Jllrr. 1l/otron coynes

' lip-" lop." - ELTZABETH WHITE (IIIC)

_ ELTZABETFI WOODS (IVC) .- .F

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