Prep Round-up! Term 3 - The Southport School

The 2010 Year 7 Canberra trip was sensational!For me the best part was the War Memorial, withmemories of fallen soldiers and being the Speakerin Parliament House, sitting in the real CabinetRoom where parliamentarians sit. I also enjoyedthe Commando activity at the Great Aussie BushCamp, with the mud and ticks and, of course,skiing at Smiggins Hole in a blizzard was anamazing experience, too. It was a brilliant time.By Steve Sandeman 7BI really liked old parliament, you could feelthe spirits off long gone politicians. The WarMemorial was also pretty special. There wereso many poppies beside peoples’ names,that if you put your face almost touching it onone end and looked to the other end, all youcould see was red.By Ben Smith 7MOn the second last day of our trip, the wholeof Year 7 went skiing. It was heaps of funbecause it was only my second time skiingand I love the snow! I went in the C groupbecause like I said it was only my second timeskiing. The C group start on the really smallslope which was still heaps of fun, but whenwe started to get better we went on a biggerone. At the end I realised how much I enjoyskiing........ can’t wait until next time.Our Trip Down SouthTurbines sound, we take off.A journey that will be a laughWalking outside the plane we find,A world that is cold and damp.Inside, nice and warm.Grab our bags and off we go.7.00pm at night, we arrive, an openfire.Dinner in a big red rock wearing a bluetracksuit.By Hamish Thompson 7BBy James Green 7PCanberra, what a wonderful place! No wonderthey call it the nation’s capital. Besides havingParliament House there, they have many otherAustralian landmarks. I had such a good time inCanberra I didn’t want to leave. But truly for meseeing that sign at the Sydney airport just openedmy eyes “McDonald’s”! That was the best MediumQuarter Pounder Meal I’ve ever had!By David Burey 7PThe AIS was very interactive and also quiet cool.We saw a foot bag player and I thought it wasvery rare to see a foot bag player. There was alot of memorabilia and sporting players at the AIS.Questacon was like a massive candy store whereeveryone went a bit crazy. The best thing for mewas the zero gravity slide and free falling. Whatyou do is you get into a suit and hang onto a bar,let go and drop. The store was where you couldbuy all of the little toys and cool things. There wasso much stuff like dry ice cream and many differentkinds of ear phones for sale.By Dylan Riley 7H11