1976 School Magazine

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tsy T'hunsday morning most of the beginners were going up the Foma with a little "help" frorn the "grots." Some girls had been up the day before, not to mention our experienced skiers who wene using the T-bars. trn the third lesson we all went up the Forna, a few falling off, one consistently. Turning on the slopes was the activity for the lesson. T'obog- ganing was also popular and several unsuspecting victims were run over by E.G.G.S. daredevils. T'he fifth formers exhibited a particular flair in this area as well as snowman building. On the very important subject of food, -Iindabyne shops were raided for ten minutes ONLY each morning and afternoon. A,lso a favourite pastime was guessing what was for breakfast and dinner. Unfortunately, nine times out of ten we were cotr- rect. One notable occurrence was the night they gave us junket for desert which most of us didn't like. This however, pleasedjunket lovers Jenny and Kerryn who ate about eight plates each. Lunch tirne was also worth noting. "T'he Eistro" was well pat- ronised by E.G.G.S. girls, many of whorn sat gog- gling at a dishy T-bar operator. Black Friday the thirteenth was black frorn the beginning. Green was sick in bed with a twenty-four hour wog. Ereakfast was an awful smelling and tast- ing black mess on toast alias mushrooms, but un- recognisable as such. Only a few ventured to taste it. Chains had to be put on the tlres to get ntp to the snow fields. The weather got worse and worse wittl increasing wind and snow and the temperature at Ferisher plummeted to -14oC. T'he brakes were frozen as we tried to leave and two rnembers of the ts.G.S. trip hitched a lift with us. In the way of damages, there was a twisted knee and wrist. Friday was the worst. The snow was the heaviest in rnany years with snow right down to .Iindabyne. The snow fields were very crowded on Saturday and Sunday and the Fomas and T-bars kept break- ing down. On Saturday night we haC a party, "Gluh- wein" was in abundance along with apple streudel etc. Sunday morning was our last chance for skiing, by then most were passable skiers, however, every- one had skier's thumb except Green who suffered from skier's b..... All thirty-two of us had to change in one small motel room. It was almost impossible but we man- aged it. Sunday night, and some rather over weight girls raided tlie gourmet food (chicken, pizzas etc.) ihat Canberra had to offer. Mr. Crommelin man- aged to eat more mushrooms on toast for dinner and was then obsenved walking down a street eating an ice-cream. At 9.30 we landed back in Brisbane sporting strange facial tans yet with no plaster casts visable. We would like to tlaank Mr. and Mrs. Crommelin for accompanying us and hope that they enjoyed thernselves as much as we did. Future Ski Champs Assoc.

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