Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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Spare Time To any Pickering student. spare time means one thing . . . freedom! Usually during the regular day. whether after classes or after study. there is a time to lay down the books and pen and prop those weary feet up. Students enjoy their spare time in their own original ways. Some just visit each others' rooms and talk of girls. music and music and girls. Other more energetic types walk downtown to the bright lights of Newmarket where all sorts of in- teresting places are, such as the new . . .. or how about the historic . . ., well one will never forget Newmarkets fabulous . . ., actually you just have to go and see for yourself! Most students think of all sorts of ingenious ways to spend their free time building themselves spiritually and physically. During winter months hockey and basketball are popular after study and no one with a right mind would miss those wonderful snowball wars that so quickly end when the tinkling of glass is heard. During the spring months, frisbee is popular or just soaking up those wonderful warm rays. Inside the building, the students who are musically inclined sometimes get together to have jam sessions. Songs by Led Zepplin. Johnny Winter, Bad Company and Glen Campbell shake the walls and shatter the windows. Others may just enjoy taking ad- vantage of the spare time for quiet relaxation or a wink of well deserved sleep, Of course there are always those strange people who actually study during free time, but that can only lead to higher marks or even something worse! All in all. spare time at Pickering is enjoyable and a welcome part of any students day. 8

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nv Msnvm use E Ding dong. There goes the very first bell of the day. I squint at my watch and it is only 7:30. I think I will sleep for another fifteen minutes. but Mr. McClymont breaks heavily into my room. turns on the lights and pulls me out of the bed. I pretend to be getting out of bed so that he will leave and I can go back to sleep again. Today is quite different. He stays until I really get out of my bed. So I drowsily get into my clothes. make my bed up and start off to the dining hall. When I walk from Firth House to Rogers. I take a deep breath of the spring breeze. After the cold winter, I long for a nice warm summer. In Singapore. we don't get winter snows so I can imagine how my friends back home would like to experience a winter in Canada, I greet some of the guys whom I see on the way to breakfast. What could be for breakfast this morning? Yes it is pancakes, made just the way I like them. I think I will play frisbee this morning with my friend after breakfast, so long as the teachers don't catch me leaving the dining hall with them. The line up for burnt toast is as usual long. After getting my breakfast ready, I sit with the usuals. Mike Heslop, Jade Minors, Winston Lau and Mark Johnston. After breakfast, I go straight to my room and do a little tidying up. I expect that the 8:00 bell will have gone when I get back to my room. This bell means no breaky for latecomers. Before the bell goes at 8:30. signalling the commencement of classes. I am in the computer room loading space invaders. Computer Science is my very first class of the day and I expect Mr. Pape to be smiling and joking as usual. I really don't mind him doing this at all. In fact, he makes my day bright and gay fhappyl. At 10:30. after the third period. another bell will be sounded and this means that there is a fifteen minute recess. At this time, I blast off my Akai cassette recorder and start reading some really far out magazines. Penthouse, Priuate. Gallery. Club International and Hustler. I think. in doing this, I may increase my knowledge about sex education. which is what Mr. Menard is teaching in Health this year. IO Ding-a-ling-a-ling. That sounds very familiar. It is 10:45 and I am back to classes again. I don't feel like studying at all ths morning because I am stiff! Before the lunch bell goes at 12:05, my stomach growls. As soon as the bell goes I rush back to my room and chuck all my books on the bed and head straight for the dining hall. I wonder what is for lunch. Oh yes! It is Shepherd's Pie, everyone's favorite. I can sense that there will be a mud, uh, foot fight today. Today I sit at my counsellor, Mr. Kane's table. He is very decent and a very nice guy. I make my usual stop at my friend's after lunch and make some funny jokes at the teachers. Jingle-jingle. there goes the one thirty bell, time to attend periods 6, 7 and 8 until three-thirty. At three- thirty. I do as much homework as possible so I can take a nap during study time. At 4:00 there is a sports bell. I have always liked badminton. My teammate is Bertram Poon. After sports I make my way to the blue shower room. I always dirty my ears listening to dirty jokes while getting myself cleaned. Pang-pang. There goes that beautiful melodic sound again. This means come and get your dinner boys. I think its ham for your dinner tonight. The ham tastes as good as Mr. Seretis jokes. Tonight I sit at Mrs. Zavitz's table, listening to her chit- chat. Sometimes I wonder if she ever runs out of things to say. After dinner, Pat Clark and I walk once around the track, in order to digest our food. We usually talk about our past and sometimes about girls. The subject of girls makes me hungry again. Later I go over to Michael Yik's alias Yoda and we talk about school work and holidays. I only like the holiday part. Whenever Peter Marsh is in the room, I bug him until the fun stops. Pete was my roommate during the Sudbury trip. He is okay! Rinnng. It is study time. I go straight to my room and organize myself. I take a five minute break as soon as I am tired. I talk to Mark about the things he is going to do in Saudi Arabia this summer. After a half hour discussion I get back to my work until the 9:30 bell goes. After study, I make my way down to Mahmoud Katirai's room. As usual, John Lee has turned on his Marantz cassette recorder, which fl must sayl is one of the largest around the school. Bertram Poon and Dave Listandaru, who are car lovers, talk about their dream cars tsuch as Toyota, Corollas and Celicasl, as usual, showing each other the cars which they like in Car Driver. Bang bang. The 10:30 bell, the beddy-bye bell and the final bell of the day. I walk back to my room, get my toothbrush and toothpaste. After brushing my teeth I get into my pyjamas. If ever this school was to win an award, I am quite sure that it would not be a No-bell prize.