More Yearbook Slips

To the Houseparents:

”Baparapa” ”Baparabam” – Jon Morten, you are infamous for your personal announcements.  As much as we love your long anecdotes during house meeting, and wish we could reflect that right now, this note will be to the point.

Let us remember:

First Sosh, as AC ”babies” will always be remembered for the 3AM house meeting, at which point we realised what an exceptional family we had become a part of, as you Synnøve called it: ”Baptism by Fire”.

In the last two years, you have taught us that coffee is essential, no matter what time of day, cleaning our dishes is really mandatory and not for fun “occasionally”, and that the challenge is to eat as many waffles as physically possible. Challenge (always) Accepted. We are proud Norwegian children.

Though it is known around campus that our house is physically the most worn out, it is quickly dismissed when we remind anyone who dares taunt us that you are our houseparents.

The barbeques are savoured. The bread baking was intriguing. The Couscous is phenomenal. Our bonfires. The Christmas Parties. Painting the first year portrait at midnight, hours before they arrived, in antics but still… a family.

Being away from home was made easier with the family environment that you provided. Although we have tried to be discreet, we now have learnt that you generally know what we are truly doing. But that is another story.

Thanks for Genuinely caring for us.

We love you.

Written for Kate's History class (we only had 100 words since she has two higher level classes)

Kate’s D-code:

Origin: Mostly Powys-ians (+ “Amann? Oh, she’s not here.”)

Purpose: To fill the shoes of the famous D-code

Values:

•       Use of Marta’s carrot and the stick (“beautiful”)

•       Perspective of a teacher from behind the iron curtain (“I was not oppressed.”)

•       Louis looking things up (perhaps a limitation...?)

•       Photographs of Hitler as a baby and on the same rock as Kate

•       Instilling fear when homework is forgotten (“not good”)

Limitations:

•       Zoran—on the phone; laughing at horrific events

•       Erasmo’s hatred of communism

•       Response to Fergal: “Well, kind of, but not really...”