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Oh What a Day - the Whale Watching Way The sheer size of these gentle mammals is awe irispiting - the male Humpback it wushuge. itroUedover. it rocked the that seemed to find our scrutiny so boat. it swam away. it came back. it interesting was easily the length of the swam under the boat. it swam beside the boat. it seemed very aware of our boat. Its tail came out. its nose came enthralment and performed beyond out. Its fin came out. And so began and expectation. showing off and basking in progressed our Whale Watching day. our attention - for nearly three hours Whileforsomethe novelty woreoff, for One cold August morning, thirty weary others the fascination lasted well into boarders, parents, friends, mistresses Ih afternoon. To observe these gentle and the occasional Gap student, giants from within touching distance struggled with hats, eskies, jumpers, both above and below the water. cameras and other miscellany onto the coupled with the unexpected and waiting bus. Four hoirrs, two videos and breathtaking opportunity to expertenc several silly songs later they emerged their 'conversation', to most people with much higher spints, at the Urangan with a very warm and fuzzy feeling Boar Harbour. Hervey Bay. Led by three model seniors who had taken it Despite several very embarrassing themselves to distribute the moments and a lack of warm sensible upon contents of he lunch eskies - somewhat clothing, the excursion left us with unevenly - the group lunched quickly many wonderful memories of enormous and then boarded the very yellow boat, bags of snakes, huge piles of of the Spint of HeIvey Bay. The captain chocolate aswdlascopiousphotographs: assured us that whales had been sighted "T/, is is a wlia! tail, and this is a, ,other on the earlier morning trip, and that h Ivh@Ie toil. and a, joiner. a, Id am oilier Z06 Y"Ie

Space Camp - to the moon and back

Emma Prior

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Are you friends with a Space Camper? things that we did was take part in You U know if you are because their mock missions, in which we could every second sentence begins with "In work in a simulated control room, Amenc ... ' U fortunately. those of space station or orbiter. We you who are already sick o it will just conducted three practice rimssions or have to suffer a bi longer because one hour each, so that w could try out Space Camp is an experience that none each of the areas, then an Extended of us willsoon forget. To say it was Duration Mission (EDM)lasting for fun would be a gross understatement. six hours. During this six-hour To say it was the holiday of a lifetime mission. the counsellors could throw is getting closer. but doesn't fully all sorts of problems at us: anything capture Ih s wit of the imp. I think from buzzer anomalies with ashing the best I can do is to say that we had a lights and buzzers, to medical chanc to fly to the moon and back, abnormalities for which Ih counsellor and it was the most amazing journey would choose someone and give them of my life a list of symptoms which they had to act out. The counseMors could also We amived at Space Camp fresh from give us thinking anomalies, which the Madott Hotel in Los Angeles, were less obvious and more complex expecting a brief interlude between our major destinations, which hopefully I spent the first half of the EDM in the would not tok up too much of our space station. in these three hours we valuable shopping time. But we had handled problems fairly well. Parn no idea just how good Space Camp had a paranoia attack and became

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would be. We were placed in teams of hysterical, so Phil ducttaped her to a eighteen or nineteen people. I was part chair. foistsn lapsed into a diabetic of the legendary Von Braun team. The coma and once we had firtished team consisted of me, Edwina Newton, arguing about what was wrong with Dale Newton, Georga Cooke, Erin her, we were able to revive her. So O'Hanoran and Susan Iehne from things wer going well ! Then, Grammar, one girl from SomerviUe suddenly we were hit by a solar flare. House, two girls from Colorado, two All the lights started nashino and finally the delegates agreed that guys from Virginia, one from lowa, buzzers and alums were going off all individual countries would impos and seven guys from a school in around us There was nothing we could trade sanctions at theirown discretion Florida Daring the week, we all Meanwhile the Year Elevens heard a clip-on koalas were soon depleted and Kristen collapsed in a heap and died Modem History lecture in the our lessons on how to speak with an Gentmam Theatre on Globalisation Aussie accent were a hit. Although Space Camp was by far the by BriariHoepper, authorofthe Year best part of the hip. we had a million 11 and 12 Modem History textbook. Space Camp was packed full of other once-in-a-lifetime experiences in activities - everything from lectures to LA, San Francisco and Orlondo. But scuba diving. But one of the many that's another journey! ! .......................................... . Are yo" ap"st sinde ofBrtsb""e Girls Grammar School? . Were yo" here between J973 - 1977? . . W@"t to catch "p with yo"F1^,'ends^. om high school? . . Please coinaget the school on (07) 3332/300for intoringtio" . . @bowt @ 20 ye@r Re""tom. . .......................................... GRAMMAR GAZETTE OCTOBER 1997 - Page 5 do. We evacuated the space station. and sat in the airlock nearby with our non-Americans among hundreds of heads in our laps. We survived. but Space Campers. we we something of we had no power. Then we were told a novelty. Our supply of Vegem, 're and that we all had radiation poisoning.

NO Limit to Social Studies

Nina Matthews

The Social Studies Faculty has a and the United Nations would not b became grea friends. Being the only broad spectrum of subjects and involved as a whole

topics to study, and they were an covered in the Annualsocial Studies Faculty Day. Students avidly participated and all year levels had a sociable time. The Year Eights staged a World Fair in the Auditorium dressing up in national costume. While the Year Tens participated in a mock United Nations debate, with delegates from all the world powers debating human . rights issues and the use of trade sanctions in curbing their violations. Many solutions were presented but