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By: Rys Herzig

Rys Herzig — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:28:36 +0000

Well, the more I read what you guys are writing the more the memories come flooding back. Hey! I have just come back fro Europe and did the Western Front Tour in preparation for taking my troops there in 2007. I would be very happy to hear maore about what you blokes are doing. I mean – how fine and outstanding you lot have become as young citizens and leaders of this fine nation. Sorry! I still am a teacher and still tend to crap on as one. Incidentally, my kids in my Year 4/5 are having a ball also learning about the Spice Wars. I have told them about you lot. You have earned a laugh. By the way my nickname was not TOAST – it is Toss and that is another story.
Rys (Mr H)

By: hank

hank — Thu, 11 May 2006 10:59:23 +0000

OMG thanks for not telling her, she was so stoked about my picture of a 18th century tall ship. I never had the heart to tell her I photocopied it and coloured it in with pencils. And she told another guy off in my class because he copied my picture, even though all he really did was photocopy the same image and colour it. My colouring was better though. HA

By: Elly

Elly — Thu, 11 May 2006 04:40:37 +0000

It’s been quite entertaining reading the posts to your blog entry! I was actually going through the 2004 St Andrews year book to try and see what teachers were still teaching. Most of the ones that I was taught under are still there…but not many of the ones from your days. The only one I can recall is Stathopolous (off the top of my head). I remember history classes with Mrs Gazo and she fondly remembered you. :) Saying that you were “very smart” (if you know what I mean!) She even showed me a picture of a ‘endeavor-type’ ship which you drew (she brought it in), but I think it was a photocopy which you coloured in! I didn’t tell her that though, it would have shattered her! I should pay a visit into the school one of these days. Oh, I regularly see Mr and Mrs Arron shopping in Blacktown! Always nice to chat to them!

By: Sordid pleasure

Sordid pleasure — Wed, 10 May 2006 00:44:42 +0000

Your past will come back to haunt you through me … ‘it sucks to be you’ ….c’mon, sing it with me ‘it sucks to be you’

By: hank

hank — Tue, 09 May 2006 08:30:24 +0000

I WISH I KNEW HOW TO QUIT YOU

By: Sordid pleasure

Sordid pleasure — Tue, 09 May 2006 06:51:13 +0000

I remember you HP, you were that little tricky git that resided in those halcyon days of homosexual love, teenage agnst and culinary depravity. Strangely, I never really liked you because I never truly understood the essence of you, that spiritual, almost cathartic nonchalance that you so effortlessly exuded, at the time, it made me quiver. How I could have had now what you had at that age, something so irreverant, simplistic, almost retarded in its sincerity. Never the less, times change, people grow and now, I still dislike you to the wrotten core, betwixt between my need to psychologically get over an damage that you did to me at the time. Sayonara little child, should we meet one night I’ll just say to you, ‘Henry Tapia, this is your life’ and will duly inform you of all the useless drivel that passed between yourself and I …prank phonecalls always stay and I always remember. Your little schoolgirl crushes and sexual dreams inspire me to further fury ,for I know….I know that in your mind, you were always manipulating the being of the supple yr 12 schoolgirls that surrounded you. Should I name names ? Should I embarrass you ? au revoir les enfant. I’ll be back :)

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 02 May 2006 12:33:11 +0000

We all see each other at least once a month through parties, get togethers, BBQ’s, etc. Arek did indeed marry in Poland, but he and his wife now reside back in Marayong (Same street, different house). Everyone is doing fine, happy and successful in what they do.

My school teacher friend is Rebel, not Sonja. The operative word here is “friend”.

Fleetwood Mac are a great band. Stevie Nicks vocals on that album were so husky because she was so high on cocaine at the time. Lot of in-fighting in that group though, they still managed to knock out some stellar albums.

By: hank

hank — Tue, 02 May 2006 08:59:17 +0000

I don’t keep in touch with many these days, but for a while after year 12 I did see some of the guys – Arek Stanciewicz, Nathan Devine, Paul Sarno – I think those guys were all in our year 6 class? I’ve had the odd email out of the blue also from various people.

Anthony, do you still see any of those guys? Arek went and got married in Poland didn’t he? Hey by the way, is your school teacher friend Sonja?

In other news, I remember we used to tease Herzig for listening to Fleetwood Mac (Tango in the Night was the album) but I must admit to getting into the ol’ Mac from time to time these days. I’m so old.

By: Mr Herzig

Mr Herzig — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 04:47:20 +0000

In response to your request re tapes of all the absurd things we did in the name of education – as far as I know all those things were taped by the school and not me. I would suggest that somewhere in the religious catacombs of St Andrew’s lies the evidence of us learning by having fun. Something that I would suggest to some of the teacher’s of the school was as alien as Saddam Hussein working for the UN.
Do you keep in touch with any of the other kids that were in our class?
Rys

By: Anthony B

Anthony B — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 13:03:34 +0000

Damn Rojo. I think you’re right, we’ll never see that again. We never got that interview with GOD either. Maybe next time

By: hank

hank — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:41:22 +0000

Ah yes, it’s all coming back to me.

And it’s Rojo who has our biblical newspaper (Moses wearing a Surf’s Up T-shirt while parting Red Sea, Gaza man beats wife to death with boiled cauliflower). I doubt we’ll ever see that again.

By: Anthony B

Anthony B — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:39:05 +0000

Yeah, Crusades. I think that was the one. It was where we flipped the script on history and made Nero a fag (looking back on it now though, we probably hit the mark with that one). It was filmed behind our classroom under a tree that backed on to the back fence of where Arek lived.

The facts and history of the Spice Wars was what Oscar Lai decided to commit to memory and recite back to the whole class (rocking back and forth while doing so) I now recall.

Would love to score all the past school projects if I could (and if Gazo could return our Biblical Newspaper, that would be great as well). A friend of mine who is a teacher keeps everything she films of her students just in case one day they become famous, so I hope Mr H can help us out in that regard, although he hasn’t responded to the post above :-(
To get those sort of things and master it, transfer it to DVD, author, chapter and menu it would be a trip.

Sorry to those reading this and have no idea what im talking about, you have missed nothing, carry on as normal.