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The Bush Telegraph

EDITION NO 514 I Thursday 4 September 2014

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Positive Education Quote of the Week:

To be yourself in a world that is trying to make you

something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Values and Ethics Nike is one of the biggest

companies this decade in

the sportswear area and it

is definitely one of the most

successful. But Nike has a

lot of ethical problems and it

has not seemed to do any-

thing about it.

Some of the things that are

really letting them down in-

clude child labour, workers‟

rights and sweat shops in

Bangladesh. All of these

things can be stopped

though if we as consumers try to stop

Nike preying on innocent people by pay-

ing wages that are too cheap. We need

to put our money where our mouth is

and buy goods that are from ethical

companies only.

By Fred Roper

Bush Dance Bush dance Number 2 took place on the

26th of August, a lovely evening. Girls‟

Units had been brainstorming ideas for

costumes all afternoon whereas on the

other hand, the boys‟ Units quickly

thought of a costume at dinner; apart from E unit, who

took the time to dress up as Mexicans.

Line up consisted of a

whole bunch of smiles and

laughs, especially when J

Unit turned up all dressed

in their pyjamas with their

mattresses strapped to

themselves, definitely tak-

ing home best dressed of

the night! The teachers

were taken aback when K

Unit turned up all dressed

as them, India Leary looking the best

dressed as Mr. B.

The night consisted of numerous

dances, all of which the Assistants

impressively demonstrated for us,

Delves and Robbo out-dancing the

others with their extraordinary moves.

The night came to a close, the E Unit

Mexicans having danced with the N

Unit Indians and the G Unit lads hav-

ing danced with the L Unit tradies.

FGI Units kindly reset the Dining Hall

afterwards and everyone else re-

turned to their Units exhausted from

a long night dancing.


Chapel Performances On the morning of 1st of September with a chilly spring

breeze blowing through the trees we walked up to Chap-

el eager for something to fill our ears.

Mr. B woke us up with his beaming hello and our reply

seemed unsatisfactory so with an even louder hello we

were wide awake and ready to hear some good music.

Mr. B told us that the following performances were

played at the parent‟s dinner and that the acts were the

guitar ensemble conducted by Paul Riley who was, un-

fortunately, absent and the vocal ensemble conducted

by Ms. Joy. The guitar ensemble was first and they did

an acoustic rendition of Demons by Imagine Dragons,

followed by Clocks, then Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

followed by and awesome version of the Game of

Thrones theme song. After this the vocal ensemble

came up and performed What a Wonderful World.

It was an amazing morning of music and congratulations

to all of the performers.

Hobbies Hobbies at Timbertop have two categories, active and

passive. The active hobbies consist of Mountain Biking,

Brazilian Ju-Jitsu, Ultimate Disc and lots more. Passive

hobbies comprise of Fly Fishing, 7Cs of Champions, Eu-

ropean Culture and a lot, lot more. All the hobbies are a

great way to learn a new skill but they are also whole lot

of fun.

I did Brazilian Ju-Jitsu and I‟m currently doing the 7Cs of

Champions. Both have been and are great fun. In Brazili-

an, we learned techniques from Mr Holze the German

Assistant. After that we are allowed to have a free wres-

tle, judged by him. The 7Cs stands for Cards, Chess,

Crosswords, Cheese, Chips, Chocolate and Coonara.

Last week, I spent the time playing a game called

„Articulate‟ with the other students in the group. In the

first session, we had an epic game of „Monopoly‟ that

took up almost the whole time we had. I‟m sure that all

the other Hobbies are as good as the ones that I am do-

ing and have done.

The Fraggle Straggle Sunday‟s run was a 9.7km handicap run around the

school campus. Everyone was put into groups from 1 -

14 (14 being the faster lot), and were all set off at dif-

ferent times depending on their ability.

The run started up the Klingsporn and went on to the

gravel pits. Then we were all pushed up Barclay‟s by Mr

Pearce at the water-stop, in the shining bright sun. We

then continued the run along the Term 3 crossie track,

which led us to the bottom of Bald Hill. By this point of

time people knew they were getting close to finishing

after getting up Bald. At the top it was a fast descent

downhill, through the switchbacks to lower Bald Hill Pad-

dock. After that it was a race to the finish through the

dams, for a nice downhill finish. Overall, it was good to

have a shorter run this week to recover from last week‟s

14km Red Hill Run.

By Jess Wade

Middle School Tour Day It was a nice sunny day, 31st of August, when the buses

full of the Year 8s arrived in front of the library. Seeing

all the Barwon boys and Chook plus Greenie for the first

time in three and a half terms was great but it was ru-

ined when I realized I had a Science test so I left to go to

the Science Lab.

After class we rushed back up back to the unit for lunch

then Kunawat and I went down to the Dining Hall to col-


lect the families we were touring. We started our tour at

the glorious F Unit and then we continued out tour down

to the dams. After the dams, our families decided to go

into G Unit. Once they returned they told us how nice

they thought it was and we continued our tour. We went

to the Music School, the JLC, the Ag Centre and then

finally back to the Dining Hall.

After lots of weird questions about everything to do with

everything about Timbertop we said good bye to the fam-

ilies.

Finally after saying goodbye to all the old kids from Mid-

dle School we headed off to Period 5 and then the long

run.

By Bailey Melzak

The 7Cs Hobby On Monday, when we were supposed to do Rammed

Earth Walls for TEAM, it was raining so Mr Otto told us to

write an article about our hobby.

Every Wednesday afternoon we go to Mr Bolden‟s house

to enjoy: chocolate, cheese, chess, crosswords, Coona-

ra, chips and cherished memories. We have an interest-

ing group of people including Kunawat, Andrew Ang, Ca-

ley Jebb, Simon Chen, Charles Shier and many more.

Everyone‟s favorite game is “I Doubt It” because it‟s the

best game and only the best person wins. Even now ex-

citement is building up inside of me for the next assem-

bly of The7Cs!

By Will Henry

A Flashback to

Term 1 Hiking {to the tune of Jingle Bells}

Bashing through the bush,

on a very humid day.

On all the hikes we do,

we’re hurting all the way.

Climbing up the knolls,

they’re really very steep.

“Only 1 k to go!”

Actually more like 13.

Oh, Timbertop, Timbertop, Timbertop hiking.

The only way to escape the day is to fake an injury, hey!

Timbertop, Timbertop, Timbertop hiking.

The only thing that keeps us going is the thought of

showering.

Inspired by The Bluff Hike.

By Teriza Mir

Night Time Activities Timbertop offers a wide range of to do after lights out.

These include:

Going to sleep

Listening to music

Whispering to the person next to you

Talking to the fellas

Listening to Frithy‟s alarm

Going to the toilet

Going to the toilet for a long time

Talk about popular internet videos such as

youtube etc.

Listen to Euan snore

Listen to Euan snore louder

Listen to Euan get hit by a shoe

Listen to Euan still snore

Singing a lullaby to everybody‟s enjoyment

By Oscar McLachlan

Bush Dance During Term 3, the Timbertop students go through some

changes, whether it be becoming an uber-cool skier like

the Mansfield boys Eisner and Yencken or getting sick,

we all become professional bush dancers.

Under the guidance of the ultimate bush dance teacher

Mr van Wyk, all the Units

are able to come in a cos-

tume to dance in. The

choices are endless. You

can be J Unit and strap

your bed mattress to your

back or I Unit who dressed

up in the girls tight run-

ning cloths or you can do

an “Oscar McLachlan”

and paint yourself green

and tie your ears together

and attend the bush

dance as Shrek.

The night begins with a

7:00pm line up at the Dining Hall with the crack of Mr

Bainger‟s whip telling us to pipe down. We all walk in

and take our spots on the floor and are lucky enough to

get a demo from the Assistants on the dance we will be

doing. Then one of the most important rules at Tim-

bertop is broken, the “one meter rule”. The boys take

their spots with the girls and begin the dance. One may

think to dance like bushmen is easy; well, dancing like a


bushman is not easy, it requires getting sweaty and

stanky.

The three best dancing pairs would have to be given to

Jules and Captain, Nellie and the Ben Leckie and Ben

Chaney and Ole Royston. Best Assistant couple goes to

Robbo and Miss Hayward.

Bush dance is a ripper night and everyone looks forward

to it.

By Nick Jackson

Monday Morning Performance For this week‟s performance, we listened to both of the

Timbertop music ensembles‟ performances from the

Parents Dinner before exeat. The guitar ensemble start-

ed off with Demons by Imagine Dragons followed by

Clocks by Coldplay then Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

and the Game of Thrones theme song to finish off. Then

followed by Ms. Joy‟s voice ensemble performing Won-

derful World.

Both ensembles were really enjoyable and everyone

loved it. Mr. B thanks Mr. Riley and Ms. Joy for working

with the groups.

By Mani Kubendran

Rules at Timbertop Rules are the things that keep Timbertop together and if

there were no rules Timbertop wouldn‟t even exist.

Timbertop gives the students some freedom on campus

and lets them do what they want. But when students

take it too far the school jumps on them and the student

or students get a Buller Road or worse, in my case a

“Hislop Special” which is a lot worse than everything the

school gives out.

If the school didn‟t have any rules there wouldn‟t any

limits for the kids and they could do what they want

which wouldn‟t be good.

Sometimes we think that the rules at Timbertop are a bit

strict but rules are the centre of Timbertop and if there

weren‟t any rules then there wouldn‟t be any Timbertop.

Another Great Week of Running After Mr. Saunders‟ great speech on running. I started

the run in first place and I knew I was in for a bumping

rough ride and I loved it. Tom come shooting past me

with a smile on his face. I got to the mouth of Barclay‟s

and I knew I was ready to explode up the hill. At the top

was Mr. Watson screaming at all the hard-working,

sweating kids only 15 years old to “don‟t stop pushing,

go, go. go!” It was at the finish where we all said how we

almost died on that run.

The next day was the 9.8 km run which was another

handicap run. The slower people started first because

they would last longer. Therefore, the super quick fast

speeding demons go last. The route was to the Buller

Road then back past the gravel pits and up Barclay‟s

then Bald Hill and back to the peaceful speed hump.

The route was very hard and rough and up and down

but there was no casualties so all and all Timbertop run-

ning is getting better and better.

By Hamish Hood


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