1998 School Magazine

Girls Grammar ^iconol iru, rigbane 1998

~a^^ undeserved backlash against him after the recent incident in So in the spirit of my own Merle Weaver speech, I sat down France. At no stage did the majority of people ask what Di was with my friend the other day and listened to her favourite Bon doing in a car with a drunk driver; why, as a mother, she didn't 10vi songs. I tried to forget my preconceptions based on that wear a seatbelt; and why, as the mother of the future King of videoclip for "Always", the photo in the liner notes of "These England, she was even associating with a member of a family Days" which makes 10n look like a woman, and all the people that was involved in a major political corruption scandal that who told me over the years "No. Elizabeth, BonJoviis not cool" brought down the previous To Iy government. No. Because she And to tell you the truth, although this could be attributed to the was tall, blonde and beautiful, she was practically canonised. fact that when I heard them I'd been awake for over twenty-four And as for Charles : well, they don't like him. His ears stick out. hours, I secretly liked "Bad Medicine" even if I said I didn't, and I also liked the chorus of "Lie to Me". in fact, when it comes So the masses were baying for his blood down to it I'm sure you've all sung along to "Blaze of Glory", Think about the nicest people you know. I'm sure most of even if yoLi won't admit it them share the one characteristic: they treat everyone equally It's not like I'd actually buy the CDS or anything, or go out Even if they think someone's annoying or boring, they still have the capacity to treat them as a real person. To quote from the of my way to hear it, and it's not as if I wouldn't still try to avoid 17th Century religious text Desiderata, "Listen to all people, it sometimes, but I've decided that I don't hate it completely. I've developed some 10vi tolerance. And that's all that counts even the dull and ignorant for they too have a story. "

by ELIZABETH An PER 12 Woolcoch (199 D

PROWL"R

As the darkness envelops him, images form in the corner of his eye, willing bini to look, but lie resists, in the knowledge learned by instinct alone

QUEST'IONS

I look at the empty page before me, empty How can I fill this page before me? I supposed to tell a tale of dragons and fair ladies? Or my life, my school years? Shotild I write about emptiness?

The taste of pure dread, as he turns his head momentamy, and sees his pursuers advancing, the neighbourhood dogs

or love or hate? I rack lily brains, empty. What is expected of nie? Does someone know all the answers? To tests, to life?

by LouisE COTrONE 9 G'407'b

One thing I have worked out, Life is always fLill of questions

QLiestions

by All ISON MU, NER 10 G"ffitb