Halifax Grammar School - Grammarian Yearbook (Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada)

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- 7 - SAILING My favorite hobby is sailing, and it is an especially good thing to be able to do here, because the Nova Scotia coastline has some of the best sailing areas in the world. People come from very far away to sail in Cape Breton and Mahone Bay. Some of the things I like best about sailing are the excite- ment and the feeling of independence that you get when you are skipper in a race. On the other hand, there is that nice, peaceful feeling when you are just drifting along. Another feeling that is special about sailing is when you are cruising and you sail into an empty little bay, just like a real explorer. Sailing teaches you to be quick and alert, to love the out- of-doors, and to be a good sport, Allan Finley, Form A Age 10. TliE BACKWARDS LAND There is a backwards land far off in the sky. The children there are the parents and the parents are the children. The teachers are the pupils and the pupils are the teachers. A rich man is a tramp and a tramp is a rich man. The sun is the moon and the moon is the sun. The hard sums are one and one. The boys skipj the women play football. When it rains, it is a good day. When it is sunny, it is a bad day. VJhen the trees are cold, they move to a warm spot. The birds feed the people. Christmas is in January, and New Year ' s is in December, I wish I could go to backwards land. Jeffrey Neal, Form D Age 8. Mi ANIMAL I am a catdogfrenchpoodle. I have small, floppy ears. My fur is soft and long and I have little circles of long soft fur. I like mice, fish, dogfood, catfood, sardines, milk, and water. I like playing ball, catch, and many others, I like getting tangled up in a string. I like running, jumpiiig, walking, and frisking about. I ara a boygirlnxanv omanmenwomen . My religion is jewishchristianmoharamedanism. I come from Irelanddutchlandenglandcanadaromegreecenewyorkconstantinople- venice. My name is Harrylaxryericajohnbettyelizabethmary, Erica Glube, Form C Age 8,

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PHOTOGRAPHY IS MY HOBBY Getting prints of pictures I take is ray hobby. The first thing in developing is to get a roll of pictures taken and wind it onto a reel. The reel is then placed in a jar. This has to be done in a dark room. The three liquids used in developing are the developer, stop bath, and fixer. The developer is poured into the jar. Then after ten minutes, it is dumped out, and the film is rinsed | then the stop bath goes in for five seconds. Then the jar is rinsed again, and the fix goes in for twenty minutes. After rinsing, the filni is hung up to dry. While in the jar, the developer, stop bath, and fixer have to be stirred thoroughly, so the chemicals will get on all the film. This is done by turning an agitator in the top of the jar. The baths have to be at a temperature of sixty-eight degrees. After the film is dry, negatives stand out. Negatives have the blacks and whites reversed. In the printing process the negatives are cut, so they can be handled separately. The negative is placed in the printing box. This has a black layer at the front that is cut to fit the negative. The negative is put in that space. Then a piece of photographic paper is placed just behind the negative. The back of the printing box is put in and is then exposed to light for fifteen seconds. Then the photographic paper is put in developer for ten minutes. While in the developer, black lines will begin to appear on the photographic paper, because the picture is developing. After ten minutes, the picture is placed in the stop bath, which stops the developing process from going on too long. The print is kept in the stop bath for thirty seconds and then put into the fix. It stays there for twenty minutes. The fix is a chemical which maintains the stopping of the developing process. Then the print should be kept in water for an hour and set out to dry. Then you have a finished picture. David Wainwright, Form B Age 10. IF I WAS A SNOW FLAKE If I was a snow flake, I would go a-f lying with some other snow flakes. We would have lots of fun. When the sun came out, we would be very sad. When more snow came, we would not be as sad. When we saw the children playing in the snow, we woTild be so happy on our way down. Robert Saylor, Form E Age 7. THE SNOW The snow comes in winter. We like to make snowmen and forts and igloos. Christopher lybrrow, Form F Age 7.