Year 12 A GENUINE REFLECTION, IN A TRUE REFLECTIVE STYLE BY VANESSA AND KRISTEN, TWO YEAR 12 STUDENTS, WHO MADE IT TH ROUGH (ALMOST). THIS IS NOT VERY INFORMATIVE, PURELY REFLECTIVE. THIS IS WHAT WE
HAVE TO SAY ABOUT YEAR 12, 2012:
Kristen: "Yeah, hmmm what else can we reflect on? Well there have
been a lot of SACs." Vanessa: "Loads." Kristen: "I don't know.. .this year. It has just been mean:
a psychological and emotional burden." Vanessa: "It really has. And you don't think it is until you actually get
there. You just think it's like a cliche: 'Oh Year 12, worst year ever, so much
stuff to do,' but they're not lying. They're really not." Vanessa: "Well, Miss Calandra, I do believe we should reflect on the
Kristen: "No. It's the year that counts not only in terms of the work, but
school year." everything. It's the last year you're at school, and you reach a certain age Kristen: "I do believe that is quite appropriate given that we are nearing its
where everything starts happening. It's like, "what the!?"The timing is
end quite soon. Hmmm, what should we say about this year at school?”
just incredible."
Vanessa: "Well well, well what is there not to say?"
Vanessa:"It really is. It's like, you couldn't waitanother year, you had to
Kristen: "I think the first thing to say is: this is the year we broke our
happen now?"
'mind-forg'd manacles', in the words of William Blake." Vanessa: "Because when you think about it, that's what this year has
Kristen: "Hmmm what else should we talk about..? Our swimming and
athletics carnival? Dress-ups."
come down to. It's been a choice of whether we decided to continue
Vanessa: "That was good. It was exciting to see how excited everyone
to conform or say: 'stuff it, let's be individuals and enjoy ourselves.
was for the first time in what... six years? It's funny because you're all
And that's what we did."
excited like that in Year 7 but then you can't be bothered, no point, wanna
Kristen: "We did that. We did break the mind forg'd manacles."
go home. And then it's like: Year 12, here we are. Oh wow."
Vanessa: "We never really questioned the school system from Year 7 to
Kristen:
Year 12. Blake wants us to question stuff. We have to question conformity
Vanessa: "Yes! That was good, because everybody worked together and
and that's what we did. That's what Year 12 was. It was us doing Year 12
it was very full of school spirit."
Flash Mob"
and finding ourselves and breaking those mind forg'd manacles. Kristen: "It was and now 'When Love Takes Over' has become our song." Kristen: "This year we came to conclusions about all sorts of things that
You know what? Let's just say that we can't speak for everyone in our
we had been trying to figure out throughout our school life. Everything year level, but this how..." just fell into place. It just all happened, basically. Everything reached a
climax and everything happened all at once." Vanessa: "It was sort of like we reached a climax and it made
everything more special, because it was our last year and we sort of had to work hard and also make the most of it. I don't think I've remembered
Vanessa:
..we took Year 12."
Kristen: "Yeah. It just felt like Term 1 flew and then Term 2 is like..."
Vanessa:".. .you're walking through mud and it's so long to get
through..."
a better year. Even though there's been some yucky stuff, and also some very lovely stuff, but this year, I don't know, I just think it's the best year." Kristen: "It's definitely a memorable one." Vanessa: "Hell yeah."
Kristen:".. .and Term 3. It's like oh we’re nearly done butthen there's..." Vanessa:",.. holidays and two weeks of school after that."
Kristen: “Now Term 4 is coming and we have to enjoy it and we kind of
have to start studying and abandon our social lives, but at the same time Kristen: "How about Ave Day. Let’s talk about Ave Day. I liked Ave Day." Vanessa: "I loved Ave Day. We look quite a lew turns around the
basketball courts." Kristen: "We did."
we don't want to and it's just...” Vanessa: "It’s really here right now, it's so close, that we're already
thinking about it being over and we haven't even started." Kristen: "Ooh... life's journey: one chapter of our lives has ended,
Vanessa: "We were linking arms, it was a lovely day."
but the rest hasn't even started."
Kristen: "We watched the staff and student debate and that was
Vanessa: "Oh wow. We're ready to take on the adult world."
quite amusing." Vanessa: "It was. Mr Horne destroyed our side. We had no chance.
Once he started talking it was all over."
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