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breaker_19_girl
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Username: breaker_19_girl
Post Number: 15
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 64.187.48.221
| | Posted on Sunday, August 12, 2007 - 11:04 pm: | 
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Hi all,
So much energy has been put into us sharing and stating our feelings on this thread. I am pleased I found this site and thank the young lady who directed me here.
I have been thrilled to re connect with people on this site too and some people I thought I might never speak with again. So, you know the positives are we have this forum, we have found people to share with and heal with. I have to say all though sleepless the last few nights and not really being able to articulate my feelings about GCC closing.... I have found a sense of freedom here... I am grateful for that...I feel like wounds and scars I have carried are healing now... and I understand and accept so much about myself now. When people talk about feeling lighter ... honestly I never knew of what they spoke... I do now though... and I am pleased it makes me smile...I have said before I am sorry for all the anger and hurts suffered by many through GCC and obviously COJ and I am grateful too that I am not alone. So, this is an excellent site and thank you all for sharing... as I know the begining to my healing journey has been such a long time coming.... But, I can tell you all this much... I do feel lighter and so much better today.... thanks all for connecting with me and being here .... |
breaker_19_girl
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Post Number: 16
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 64.187.48.221
| | Posted on Sunday, August 12, 2007 - 11:14 pm: |
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And just for fun... I will say this the food at GCC was the ultimate... I loved the food and still eat eggs in hole today.... and california chicken with cornflakes... the bomb man!
I will also say too that although I carry a lot with me some memories I have at GCC are good too, other than the food. I remember sleepovers on the balcony of Murray hall lounge. I remember G&S and grade 11's preparing a secret banquet for the grads... I remember skating with bonfires on the lagoon. I remember fondly Saturday nights around christmas when each family was assigned an area of the school to decorate and afterwards we would run around and see all the work. And, Mrs Leitchs family usually responsible for making homemade donuts and cider and hot chocolate for the snack. I remember rm hopping at night... that was fun and I had the best record for not getting caught... hahahaha...
I remember when I was in gr 11 and Cindy and Mr. Barr were getting married and I planned with the help of another student a shower for Cindy. I know in all honesty I worked so hard on that shower and put love into it. I loved her.. to be honest with you all. And the whole girls dorm participated in the shower in fact I think it was our Friday night Activity, not sure what the boys did that night. I am certain Mr. O and Mr. Childs had something for them.
But, the shower was cool because all got on board and we had committees for snacks and decorations and entertainment. Group work was always a good thing there too...when it came to things like that. Anyways, it turns out somebody let the cat outta the bag and Aunt Cindy heard about the shower. And, when I went to her room to collect her for the surprise she would not let me in and told me she was not feeling well and she wanted to go to bed. After convincing her she had to open her door (or so I thought) she was dressed and ready to go to her shower... and she said Gotcha to me... I laughed.
If anyone is interested... I did call her Aunt Cindy, I had been there long enough... and even sent there through a summer or two when my mom was outta town...I figured if the staff kids could do it...so could I! I was invited to her wedding that summer and sadly I could not go, but I was honoured to be invited.
I am not saying that these memories out weigh or take away from some of the other stuff...But, I did want to have a positive momment amongst all the pain and healing...and remember some things that really were good times... |
purgatory
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Post Number: 11
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 64.229.31.197
| | Posted on Sunday, August 12, 2007 - 11:26 pm: |
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Hej Liane,Breaker
You are so right!! This forum has been a form of therapy for so many-mind you I started therapy years ago. I am a firm believer that even through such dreadful experiences some good can come. This forum is a perfect example- I too have reconnected with so many. This past week I feel as if I have been hanging out with my buddies at Grenville, and not my husband, and kids. Does any one remember being on kitchen duty, and spending so much time in the freezer eating all the frozen desserts.I'm sure I was caught a few times. Cheers |
breaker_19_girl
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Post Number: 18
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 64.187.48.221
| | Posted on Sunday, August 12, 2007 - 11:35 pm: |
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yeah... that was so fun.... hahahaha... when a banquet was coming... there were so many treats...
Or the outside freezer when it was icecream bars for desert.... they thought they hid them... hahaha.... |
breaker_19_girl
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Post Number: 22
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 64.187.49.249
| | Posted on Monday, August 13, 2007 - 12:51 pm: |
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You know too I am reminded of some of the things that were kind of a bright light in a dim land. We did grow up in a place that was beautiful, the grounds at GCC were well kept and the scenery was breathtaking sometimes. I was reminded lately when I was in Dover... Port Dover for those of you familiar with S. Ont. .. anyway, it is on lake Erie, and we were watching the boats way out on the lake. And, the person I was with was talking about the trips accross the ocean and blah blah.... that these boats take. And, I said "no, not that one"... he looked at me and I explained how some ships are for the ocean and some for the lakes and how you can tell the difference. I learned that from Mr.O and Mr. Childs. I am not sure why I was in the science lab one day at 6th period, likely I had gone up to see the white rat, as I believe I was hanging on to it when Miss Anderson entered and asked me what I was doing. I asked her if all the water ways were connected...what happens when an ocean fish swims to far and ends up in the ST. Lawerence, her reply was that usually they did not do that although not entirely impossible. She explained to me that when the water mixes it is called a brackish..and that certain life lives there and that once other fish from fresh or salt get there they generally can not support themselves there and turn back. I thought way too cool and good to know.... hahaha... Then, I looked accross the river and I said, (more to test her) you think if I worked hard enough I could spit and hit the states? Out of the back of the room Mr. childs and Mr. O came in and laughed... they started talking to me about volume and trajectory and the like... hahahaha.. All very mathmatical and scientific... (not my bag). That is when they taught about the ocean boats and the lake boats. I think it is pretty cool, then the bell rang and I had to put the rat back and go to dinner. You know just a lil trivial "trivia" thing... but hey it has made me have something to say to people and teach them a thing or two.. hahaha...
The sad part is word got out after dinner that I had been up there with staff and everyone thought I was in crap for something and I was swarmed as people wanted to find out what I had done wrong. I did not do any thing wrong.... I learned something neat that day I have never forgotten.... |
wagener84
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Post Number: 12
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 68.151.117.98
| | Posted on Monday, August 13, 2007 - 4:29 pm: |
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Port Dover? haha...I grew up near there (Simcoe, ON) and was there last year to say a final farewell to my mother after she passed away. We sprinkled her ashes off the pier there. Small world I guess. |
jc19801983
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Post Number: 1
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 67.71.22.64
| | Posted on Monday, August 13, 2007 - 4:47 pm: |
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hello all
i wanted to touch base also.
i'll think of more to write later. I have been reading a lot of these posts today and yesterday.
Nice to read and identify with so many people.
I went to gcc for grade 9 and 10 in 1980 - 83
not super long, but it seemed like forever at the time.
i'll write more later |
bossman
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Username: bossman
Post Number: 7
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 24.64.223.204
| | Posted on Monday, August 13, 2007 - 5:59 pm: |
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Good times at GCC? Where to start. Skiing for the first time at Big Tupper. Sports teams, track, trying not to laugh during night time study hall, sneaking around at night not getting caught by the staff on patrol, all of us trying to catch a bat flying around in the old dorms after midnight in 85 (my first year). Being on "D" with your buddies for stupid stuff. What a life we had only X-Lions would understand. Not to mention the GCC lion song. Lets give a might ROAR |
breaker_19_girl
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Username: breaker_19_girl
Post Number: 26
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 64.187.49.46
| | Posted on Monday, August 13, 2007 - 6:17 pm: |
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Bossman, wish I would have known you...we could have had fun... you were there a couple years after me. I too figured out how to get round the whole school after lights out and avoid the patrol... too funny....I did it mainly on my own, was always curious if they really did patrol is what started it... hahahaha.... then of course late night snacks...
Being on D never really bothered me either... cept as I have mentioned that silence one I did. |
mike_irvine
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Post Number: 5
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 74.59.81.250
| | Posted on Monday, August 13, 2007 - 6:19 pm: |
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yeah...i agree with you bossman...sports made gcc bearable for me. especially when we got to go to other schools and hear music during warm ups. i somehow avoided "D" for my entire 5 yrs there...a fact that still blows my mind. |
bossman
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Post Number: 8
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 24.64.223.204
| | Posted on Monday, August 13, 2007 - 7:30 pm: |
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I guess your brother did enough for both of you! I remember you well, fast little bugger. Is your brother still out west? |
alway_on_d
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Post Number: 8
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 70.49.85.152
| | Posted on Monday, August 13, 2007 - 9:09 pm: |
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I really liked the sports and G&S. Cross country skiing was great, especially when we went to the Gatineau Hills on Wednesday afternoons. In fact any trip that got us of campus was always a thrill for me.
I don’t know if anyone else would remember a small trip that went to the National Arts Center in Ottawa to see A Mid Summers Night Dream. Seemed that this was a little avant-garde for GCC. I will never forget the shocked looks on the faces of the staff, when the actors got half naked and started to fornicate on stage.
I wish I could remember the speech on the bus on the way home!
I loved Saturdays, as long as I got a good job to do in the morning… anything outside. I liked family nights too. But I think I wore my shoes out several times walking up and down the driveway talking with friends. Often standing just outside the gates around the two lions where I felt like I was a little closer to freedom. |
dream_truth
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Post Number: 20
Registered: 3-2006
Posted From: 72.45.165.10
| | Posted on Monday, August 13, 2007 - 9:30 pm: |
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I was on that trip hahahah!!!!
I don't think I'd ever seen anything so seductive in all my life, I didnt know what was going on.
That pretty much counted as my high school sex ed class. |
alway_on_d
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Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 70.49.85.152
| | Posted on Monday, August 13, 2007 - 9:39 pm: |
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LOL  yeah that was hilarious!!! Was it a Wednesday afternoon thing? I can’t remember… |
breaker_19_girl
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Post Number: 27
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 64.187.49.216
| | Posted on Monday, August 13, 2007 - 11:48 pm: |
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Oh hell, I would have loved to have been there too, damn I graduated too late! That would have been funny to see the looks and hear the speech afterwards... Oh my gosh that is just wayyyyyyy to funny.... Oops memo to staff...make sure there is a "G" rating on all school trips...hahahaha...Wonder which staff memeber got busted and on "D"for that little ditty in misplanning...? |
bossman
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Post Number: 12
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Posted From: 24.64.223.204
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 12:27 am: |
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G rating. Who came up with the six inch rule? Seperate stairs for boys and girls I thought they were kidding when they told me that. I still forget to take my shirt off when I go swimming (years of being told to keep it on). |
jes_noonan
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Post Number: 22
Registered: 7-2007
Posted From: 67.70.18.124
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 1:16 pm: |
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some of the good memories at gcc, particularly having to do with a couple of dudes on this thread:
Bossman: my first ever room leader. Staying up after lights out eating noodles, ski trips to breaumont and big tupper. We had a pretty awesome fam on Saturday nights too....remember the big conspiracy with how the students for JJ and BB's family were picked? When AR's laundry pin somehow went into his knee and snapped off inside it? Hahahaha.
Mike: or should I say Miketh. Speaking our quasi shakespearean jibberish for months on end. Best room-mate ever. Track and field meets....fave all-time was our grade 9 year...OFSAA in Sudbury where we shared a room with TC and JL. TC spooned you while JL slept in a ball at the bottom corner of my bed. B-ball warm-upsat other schools were AWESOME for the tunes....I was pure adrenalin after hearing that. And our private study hall in the Phys Ed office. Did we actually ever study? I seem to remember studying my 3-point shot more than math. I think we were even in the ham radio club one year trying to contact people in other countries and truckers for fun, weren't we? Finally, when you had surgery on your knee and were in the infirmary, I pretended to be sick so we could hang out together for a few days...sure enough, thanks to someone else I DID get sick (wicked fever) and you ended up getting out before me.
Here's a memory EVERYONE from my time should remember: lining up at the infirmary "waiting" to see Mrs Rawlinson for medicine (usually vitamin C) after dinner. It was the unofficial hang-out at the school. Hahahaha! I used to go there for the sole purpose of trying to talk to girls I liked. When it was my turn to see Mrs Rawlinson, I would say, "Yeah, ummmmm, feelin a bit of a tingle in my throat. Can I get some vitamin C?"
Square dances: how appropo
Bingo: O 69! HAHAHAHAHAAAAA! |
gayatgcc
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Username: gayatgcc
Post Number: 42
Registered: 7-2007
Posted From: 65.94.113.25
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 1:21 am: |
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The infirmary was my sanctuary for my last year at GCC. I used to suffer from "migraines" the became compulsary for me during my final year. I couldn't take the stress of FF, the staff, friends, being gay, etc .... I started to fake the illness just to get admitted into the infirm. I would be there on the pew outside the door at 5 in the morning before Mrs. R or Sister R.C. would arrive. I'd be "admitted" for the day and spend the day in solitude.
That place helped me through a lot of hard times. Sometimes at GCC, the best time, was spent alone.
Truly. |
breaker_19_girl
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Username: breaker_19_girl
Post Number: 48
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 64.187.48.6
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 1:34 am: |
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LOL... I think most of us found sanctuary at the nurses office... LOL.... It was built the year I graduated... I was one of the first girls to break in our side. Never had a real live migraine back then, faked a few though...and tylenol 3 was not invented yet we 292's and they did the same thing...and believe me the codine was a stress reliever...like I said never had physical pain...just a lot of migraines. |
gayatgcc
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Post Number: 44
Registered: 7-2007
Posted From: 65.94.113.25
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 1:37 am: |
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GCC was the beginning of selfmedication. Codeine made me fell limitless! Thank gawd they didn't test for doping in the Lions Music Festival! |
breaker_19_girl
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Post Number: 49
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 64.187.48.6
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 1:40 am: |
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It really is fun to have these memories.. hahaha... infact was just thinking was a young lad there when I was there. Mike Wilgar for any of you who remember him, anyway... hahaha, he and I always were at the nurse office and in my defense I was legit sick a lot...but, as mentioned I get physically ill when emotionally stressed. Anyway, in my yearbook the year we graduated he made reference to always meeting at the nursie's office and connecting there and how he would miss our special time together... |
bossman
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Post Number: 29
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 142.32.208.232
| | Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2007 - 5:02 am: |
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I forgot about the elite family nights and hand picked members, made it easy on us though. Does anyone remember when the people in the white robes showed up late one night behind the new boys dorm? Wasn't the psychiatric hospital close by the school. |
breaker_19_girl
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Posted From: 64.187.48.234
| | Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2007 - 1:05 pm: |
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yeah boss man there was a pshch hospital down the road... hahaha
White robes?? That might have been scarey!!
Where is the Boys dorm? The boys were mostly on the top floor of the main building when I was there..... |
tmw
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Username: tmw
Post Number: 31
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 69.156.78.207
| | Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2007 - 1:07 pm: |
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boys dorm is kinda between the wood chip boiler and the main building.......think where the merry go round and the swing sets were in the back |
bossman
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Post Number: 32
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Posted From: 142.32.208.232
| | Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2007 - 10:17 pm: |
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I think the new dorm was built in 87 but could be mistaken. It would have been behind the main building joined to the new gym which I think was done at the same time. |
tmw
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Posted From: 67.71.153.164
| | Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2007 - 11:04 pm: |
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yes, the new gym and the new boys dorm and the keenan family lounge were all built at the same time. |
bossman
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Username: bossman
Post Number: 35
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Posted From: 142.32.208.232
| | Posted on Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 4:44 am: |
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Study hall games in the dinning hall. Wetting TP and throwing it at the ceiling to see how much you could get to stick up there. The sign language invented to talk without speaking. The pen twirl which I still do. Stupid games so you wouln't have to stack dishes at meals. Sleeping in nighttime chapel |
lightsout
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Post Number: 13
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 76.100.140.96
| | Posted on Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 10:54 am: |
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bossman, - i still pen twirl and creamer flip!! |
breaker_19_girl
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Post Number: 102
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 64.187.49.181
| | Posted on Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 1:18 pm: |
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the keenan family lounge... as in Katy Keenan? |
westcedar1
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Post Number: 14
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 24.218.195.173
| | Posted on Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 4:36 pm: |
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I think I am the only one that cannot do the pen flip! I have tried and tried. Is there a "Master" out there who will be at the ceremonies that can take a few moments and help me to figure it out.
Chris |
priest_of_satan
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Post Number: 14
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Posted From: 74.114.251.86
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 11:05 am: |
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Bossman, 85 - I was 83-89 - no doubt, being on D with with/without your buddies was an art - yeah, great idea, put me in the Kitchen stockroom (or freezer) with ALL the food/munchies. Gord Minz used to turn a cheek - desert galore etc. I can honestly say that I do the dishes pretty much where ever I go...cause after doing pots/dishes for 200+ - walk in the park
THE pen twirling...can you send it the opposite direction? Not a chance here...one way, yes, back no. |
priest_of_satan
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Posted From: 74.114.251.86
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Bossman, 85 - I was 83-89 - no doubt, being on D with with/without your buddies was hilarious - yeah, great idea, put me in the Kitchen stockroom (or freezer) with ALL the food/munchies. Gord Minz and friends that were prefects used to turn a cheek - desert galore etc. I can honestly say that I do the dishes pretty much where ever I go...cause after doing pots for 200+ - dishes are a walk in the park
THE pen twirling...can you send it the opposite direction? Not a chance here...one way, yes, back no. |
priest_of_satan
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Posted From: 74.114.251.86
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 11:26 am: |
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Bossman, 85 - I was 83-89 - no doubt, being on D with with/without your buddies was hilarious - yeah, great idea, put me in the Kitchen stockroom (or freezer) with ALL the food/munchies. Gord Minz and friends that were prefects used to turn a cheek - desert galore etc. I can honestly say that I do the dishes pretty much where ever I go...cause after doing pots for 200+ - dishes are a walk in the park
THE pen twirling...can you send it the opposite direction? Not a chance here...one way, yes, back no. |
vancouver
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Posted From: 154.5.186.89
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 11:56 am: |
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The pen thing always drove me nuts - it was like, you're not a "Gcc"er until you could do the pen twirl. Sister Deborah once gave me hell for not listening in English because I was busy studying how Jon ***** was making his pen just rocket around the top of his hand.
(It occurs to me that I shouldn't be using anyone's last name without their expressed permission. If you hear that rattle, it's me shakin' my head.)
(Message edited by vancouver on September 06, 2007) |
bossman
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Post Number: 46
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 24.64.223.204
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 1:23 pm: |
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POS We did our time together and had a few laughs together for sure. I have perfected the spin both ways and can do a flip at the end. Needless to say the grades weren't the best. I had to stand a lot in studyhall for the pen falling and disrupting things.
Al.H |
priest_of_satan
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Posted From: 74.114.251.86
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ahhhhhhh...Bossman happens to live in B.C. doesn't he? Wears outfits that allow for 3 pitbulls to hang off him while he is running in drills....on to you, the powers work! Cheers bud. |
bossman
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Post Number: 47
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Posted From: 24.64.223.204
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Could have used that gear back in school. |
gccgrad95
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Posted From: 74.101.104.239
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 7:41 pm: |
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Some of the fond memories I have are the long walks I'd take in the back, and sometimes I'd sneak a smoke... oh, the effort that went into hiding the smell before we went back ~ rubbing fingers in the dirt, perfume, gum, etc... They never caught me, but had their suspicions. The last half of my 2nd year there they forbid me from going on walks alone... for someone who desperately needs their own space and time alone, this was torture! In fact, there was always someone "monitoring" just about everything I did for the last 6 months or more.
Raided the kitchen a few times...
Staying up past lights out tee heeing with roomies.
I too took advantage of the infirmary a few times... I've got pale skin and so when I didn't put on make-up I'd be asked if I was feeling okay. At first, this sort of offended me and then I learned to use it to my advantage... yes, I feel awful, I can't possibly go to classes today! |
quietgrl
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Post Number: 29
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Posted From: 24.226.102.190
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I could never coordinate a pen twirl... but i was a master of creamer flipping... could anyone do a double or triple stack? |
tomrossini
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Post Number: 44
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 71.238.4.31
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 9:40 pm: |
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WTF is Creamer Flipping????
Sounds funny  |
bossman
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Posted From: 24.64.223.204
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 9:55 pm: |
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Two creamers stacked on each other and you hit the side of the top one and it flips up rotates and lands on the bottom one again. |
phlebas
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Registered: 9-2007
Posted From: 74.107.178.195
| | Posted on Friday, September 07, 2007 - 1:10 am: |
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Although I really disliked my years at GCC, I do have some things I recall with some fondness (and amusement):
Well, the food was great, especially the coffee cake. I do wish I still had the 1981 (or was it 1982?) Junior Achievement's recipe book of favourite GCC dishes. Anyone still have a copy they could scan and post somewhere?
In the 'unintended consequences' file, each year, without fail by around November, a lot of female students (and quite a few guys) would starting to get a little worried about expanding waistlines... 
DK
(Message edited by phlebas on September 07, 2007) |
phlebas
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Posted From: 74.107.178.195
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In the 'messing with staff minds' category, I do have one very fond memory of scaring the h*ll out of Geoff Henderson my first year.
One day in the dorm, I told him I was going to be the AntiChrist when I got older, in order to help the Second Coming arrive as soon as possible.
His face went white and he was positively panicking, and he couldn't get away from me fast enough.
I always wondered if he was taking off to report the incident and how many staff were being kept busy doing some serious praying for my eternally damned soul after that...
DK
(Message edited by Phlebas on September 07, 2007) |
dan_grant
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Posted From: 142.59.68.139
| | Posted on Saturday, September 08, 2007 - 3:56 pm: |
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Cream flipping, never heard of it in my time at GCC. Pen twirling only the hong kong students could do and do it well. The other thing that was big was snatching coins off your elbow. Put a stack on the elbow as it was held parralel to the ground. With your hand beside your ear fling it forward and catch the coins with out allowing any to fall to the floor. 25 quarters was the highest i could get. Anyone else remember this sport? |
survivor1101
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Post Number: 30
Registered: 9-2007
Posted From: 206.186.121.43
| | Posted on Saturday, September 08, 2007 - 5:25 pm: |
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OMG people.. CREAMER FLIPPING! I remember Garth Gillis was a master. I sat at a table with him once and watched him do three! I was in awe!
Take two creamers. Stack one on top of the other, and then hit the edge of the top on and try to get it to flip all the way around and land just the way it started. GG could get two to do it at once.
Anyone ever make butter from cream?
Anyone have the recipe for Blueberry Buckle... please? |
purgatory
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Username: purgatory
Post Number: 41
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 67.71.120.15
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Speaking of Garth what ever happened to this sweety of a kid??? I was a bit older, and was the same gr as Dan, but I remember Garth as always being so quick with a smile, and so light hearted. |
breaker_19_girl
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Username: breaker_19_girl
Post Number: 207
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 64.187.49.101
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Purg,
Garth is at the cofj being a brother me thinks I heard.... |
sheilac
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Post Number: 69
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 70.54.18.207
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bump |
lightsout
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Username: lightsout
Post Number: 39
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 76.100.140.96
| | Posted on Sunday, September 23, 2007 - 12:14 am: |
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Garth is a brother at the cofj - Brother Matthew |
mandatoryfun
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Username: mandatoryfun
Post Number: 3
Registered: 9-2007
Posted From: 74.98.116.2
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I don't know how positive this story is exactly, but it may well make you laugh. . . Or cry, come to think of it, depending where you are with all of this.
The scene: it was my last year of waaaaaay too many and I had thought I'd seen it all. They took the unusual step of reassigning people to different families for one night, I guess because a whole lot of staff were gone somewhere, and I got put with the H family (not Haig) and we did the default family activity: we watched a Disney movie.
Okay, people, are you ready for this? Sorry, I'm guessing you are:
So it's the Lion King and we got to the part where the boy lion and the girl lion are getting slightly older and are possibly taking an interest in each other. They are horseing around and run into each other accidentally and roll down the hill in a jumble accidentally. A touching moment.
I mean, I *suppose* it was a touching moment. I wouldn't know BECAUSE THEY FAST-FORWARDED THAT PART BECAUSE IT WAS INAPPROPRIATE!!!!
I'm am not effing kidding you. Argh, it makes me want to stab myself!
We were in high school! It was Disney! DISNEY!
Meanwhile, they were showing us abortion videos over lunch.
You laughing? Crying? Both? |
tmw
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Username: tmw
Post Number: 61
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 67.71.153.158
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Well, mandatory fun, I was assigned to the same family during my tenure.
We were watching the Disney movie "Sleeping Beauty" and they fast forwarded through the kiss which wakes up the princess....
*sigh* some things never change LOL |
breaker_19_girl
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Username: breaker_19_girl
Post Number: 227
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 64.187.49.143
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Mandatory,
Yeah... I guess disney is a lil riske for some.
Abortions over lunch?? Explain that to me!! Do you mean the video of an actual abortion or just a typical light session?? |
mandatoryfun
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Username: mandatoryfun
Post Number: 5
Registered: 9-2007
Posted From: 74.98.116.2
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I guess I just should've been grateful that some other family had the copy of 'Stand and Deliver' so I didn't have to watch it for the 23rd time.
breaker, CF just made us be silent and watch anti-abortion videos over lunch a few times. I can't actually remember the content too well, but I remember thinking, Do we really need to do this *now*? |
breaker_19_girl
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Username: breaker_19_girl
Post Number: 230
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 64.187.49.143
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What about Little Lord Fauntleroy....??
We saw that in my generation a lot...
A tale of two cities...
Mandatory...
Do I know you? |
mandatoryfun
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Post Number: 6
Registered: 9-2007
Posted From: 99.232.133.19
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Nope, after your time.
Something kinda positive: getting as many people together in the Gold Lounge as possible, forming a chain and walking in our socks through that crazy shag carpet, and getting one person to touch the metal chalk tray and a shock would go through everyone. This was especially fun because of the flagrant snubbing of the six-inch rule.
This only went on for about three days, and we got busted (OF COURSE) though there were too many of us to get us all in serious trouble for something so harmless.
I also remember the period of popularity the Muppets enjoyed in the Student Lounge. That was cool.
And after all those years . . . that's what I got, people. Fortunately, life since Grenhell has been awesome. |
strength
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Username: strength
Post Number: 42
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 192.197.95.253
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Hey Mandatory; I love the way you write. |
mandatoryfun
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Posted From: 99.232.133.19
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Hey strength, I love the way you stand up for what is right and actually do something about it.
It's people like you that have made me get off my ••• and do something about all this. |
strength
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Username: strength
Post Number: 45
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 192.197.95.253
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Mandatory, I try to take action, but I find this whole mess so complicated and confusing. I guess that's why I so appreciate reading other people's thoughts.
Actually, tonight I'm feeling sad, and missing my GCC buddies a lot. I'm thinking especially about the boy at GCC whom I had a major league crush on. Oh God, I really loved that boy. So cute and zany. For the five years from grade 9 to 13, I watched him struggle too in that environment. But I was so worried about getting into trouble, I couldn't ever take the chance to reach out to him, or even just tell him how wonderful he seemed to be to me. I couldn't take action on my feelings, let alone on my sense of justice. So I feel kinda sad about it tonight. And I wish I could go back, and be strong. |
breaker_19_girl
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Username: breaker_19_girl
Post Number: 231
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 64.187.49.251
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Hey Strength,
thanks for sharing that story... What courage it took to say that....
Oddly, I thought you were way too goody goody back then and did my best to hide from you. Except we had a person in common, one of your roomies was my friend and I had to go to your room. But, I was scared of you. I am sorry for that... But, I remember when you were a hoot in the big dorm when I was really little... LOL
Liane |
heatherbell
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Username: heatherbell
Post Number: 8
Registered: 10-2007
Posted From: 24.64.223.204
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Vancouver"- you had sister deborah as a teacher??? were you there in 82-84? i had her too. ughhhhhh i think i had brian tingle(boyfriend) in my class, and a few others that kept me giggling almost constant getting me in s***, although i was in no way an angel, almost always on D (until i was expelled of course lol) |
stephaniel
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Posted From: 99.236.204.204
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oh my Sister Deberah does that ever bring back scary memories I had her too did she even know how to smile or laugh. lol She was always so serious and I hoped that all sisters were not like her cause she would scare anyone out of joining the church.
steph |
breaker_19_girl
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Username: breaker_19_girl
Post Number: 264
Registered: 8-2007
Posted From: 64.187.48.155
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Heather bell I can't place you, and sister Deborah was not on staff in those years. She was there in the seventies and then moved to COFJ and came back much later. I know brian Tingle, and it would seem that lil lover boy had a lot of girlfriends... hahahahah... But, he was a good looking kid.
E-mail me please.. it is killin moi I can not place you....
lianeross@porchlight.ca |
heatherbell
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Post Number: 13
Registered: 10-2007
Posted From: 24.64.223.204
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Sister Deb, did teach us in English. She maybe only came back for awhile? Or it was some other sister, but there was a sister teaching us for awhile, I remember her well, very tall. |
heatherbell
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Post Number: 14
Registered: 10-2007
Posted From: 24.64.223.204
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I did send you an email as well...wonder if there will be any more articles in the Globe tomorrow? Hmmm.... |
